BCCI and the openness factor.

Seems to be the season of 'open'ness. Open Source Software, and now open letters.

The Secretary of BCCI, Mr. Niranjan Shah, has shot one off to Mr. Gavaskar, on how the Board is working to make the things more transparent. This is in response to Gavaskar-of-the-changing-roles fame's column in HT describing why the BCCI is not a transparent body, or something to that effect.

Shah goes on to add, that processes take time to get implemented. Time? As we know, it is a seventy plus year old body, and we also know the method of it's working. Niranjan Shah may have een in only for a couple of years, but rest assured, another decade at the helm, and nothing much is going to change.

So one is going to see, Test captains been appointed in the lunch break of a One Day international. Don't understand the rationale at all.

Good players getting dropped by Selectors because of personal vendetta. Not-so-good players getting selected because they have been scoring runs, probably in book-cricket tournaments.

Coaches not getting appointed for days, such that the team is without one, for about 8 months, as is the case now. The explanation one gets is "we have been winning as it is, so what is the need?" True. We need engines, not coaches. Sad joke. Sad affairs.

When coaches get appointed, they dont sign contracts. Slap and run away.

Captains get appointed informally. Who reject the offering at the eleventh hour.

The whims and fancies of one man decides who is going to be interviewed to coach the team. Irrespective of whether he was there in the first place or no. The man then does not turn up for a coach-selection meeting. The same man then criticises the functioning of the Board in his columns. And then he commentates like he knows the game like the back of his palm. But stays away from being associated with the team and sharing his palm.

Or rather, his expertise.

Bad joke number two. BCCI does that you sometimes.

And so on.

Byw for now. Need to watch the Aussies bat now. And plunder on the Lankan misery, negative decision to field first. Will make them pay the Aussies now.