http://www.dreamcricket.com/community/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=BCCI,UPA&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'BCCI' and 'UPA'en-USCommunityServer 2007 SP2 (Build: 20611.960)http://www.dreamcricket.com/community/blogs/not_cricket/archive/2011/06/08/ndtv-v-s-ten-cricket.aspxWed, 08 Jun 2011 19:11:00 GMTa9c053ce-f388-4613-8a89-d938c24a54e8:75472namya<li> Cricket- The Republic of India</li> <ul> <li>&nbsp;ICC - The government of India (currently The UPA)</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>&nbsp;o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; See no evil, hear no evil, and don&#39;t utter a single word. </p> </blockquote> <ul> <li>&nbsp;BCCI - (at present) The Congress Party</li> </ul> <ul class="unIndentedList"> <ul> <li> Success is theirs&#39;, failure is ICC&#39;s ineptness<br /></li> <li> May have infighting and show it openly to the world too but in the end it&#39;s all in the family.</li> <li> ResponSibbal to no one</li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li>&nbsp;IPL - Wealth of the nation </li> </ul> <ul class="unIndentedList"> <ul> <li> Concentrated in the hands of a few rich, powerful and well connected people.</li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li>PCB - (at present) The Opposition</li> </ul> <ul class="unIndentedList"> <ul> <li> No players in the IPL so don&#39;t get their share of the IPL moolah</li> <li> Wants to head the ICC again but the BCCI scrapped the rotation system in the previous Lok Sabha elections</li> <li> Will take every opportunity to heckle the ICC</li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li>Experts - Media</li> </ul> <ul class="unIndentedList"> <ul> <li> Allegiance to money and ideology; most ideologies stem out from the source of money</li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li>Spectators - Indian Citizens</li> </ul> <ul class="unIndentedList"> <ul> <li> No say in the running of the administration</li> <li> Doesn&#39;t matter who is in power, their lives remain unchanged</li> </ul> </ul> <p>This is not an exhaustive list of the parallels between the state of Cricket as a sport and the Republic of India. It is also not a political statement in the sense that the ICC in the next elections can be the NDA and the BCCI can be the RSS. The bottom line is that Cricket and India are both run like personal fiefdoms and the common man/ cricket lovers are short charged in the process. </p> <p>The anger of a small minority from the civil society is being expressed in the country through the support to peaceful protests against corruption but such a possibility to rid &nbsp;cricket of its many challenges may be a bit ahead of its time. </p> <p>This is also not a call to support any particular cause. This is a sports blog and will remain so. But the raving and ranting on TV news channels that one had to endure because of the boring ODI series made one think. </p> <p><i>Article contributed by fakepradeepmagazine</i></p><p>Not Cricket&#39;s final conclusion though, is that watching BP XI playing Windies is a better alternative.</p>