Start a Indian cricket league
Former India captains Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Chandu Borde, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Ravi Shastri and Krishnamachari Srikanth made the following recommendations at the BCCI meeting on Friday:
Strengthen Domestic Cricket.
Improve the quality of wickets
Improve the quality and competitiveness in domestic cricket.
Junior Cricket: The structure which is the best in the world and should be supported by providing good wickets and umpires
Form Pool of Players
Star Zonal Academies
Put Cap on Players' Endorsements
I think that our former captains MISSED one vital part
Team India – We need eleven players, who untidily play for the country rather then bunch of super stars with super egos, playing for themselves.
This is what Chappell wanted and how can we ignore such a vital point.
The solution suggested –
Chappellway
He emphasized the need to promote youngsters and concentrate on fitness for the team to do well in fielding and running between wickets.
Pawarplay
The BCCI president Sharad Pawar complimented Chappell on his role and his professional approach. He opined that Chappell could be associated with Indian cricket and help in the implementation of the long term plans.
Former Captains way
Form Cricket Committee: A committee may be constituted from among the captains to advise on cricketing matters and the committee should meet every quarter.
Subhash Chandra’s way
A parallel cricket league called the Indian Cricket League in the country.
My Solution – KISS – keep it simple stupid
All this can be achieved with a combination of solution
Start a Indian cricket league – not the way Subhash Chandra wants it … simply because he wants to start this for his own selfish reasons . He will only complicate the situation .
Let the BCCI start a league with the help of Indian corporate
Say there are eight teams to start with
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H
Invite corporate world to form their teams
Say A is Tata , B is Reliance , C is Airtel , TCS or Sahara or LG etc etc
Give each team a stadium – say Airtel gets Mohali , Tata gets Wankhede … now that becomes there home ground and they are responsible for the up gradation of stadium and pitches etc
Let them hire players (foreign as well as Indians) on the same lines as football clubs – let them have foreign coaches /trainers /support staff.
The Objective is to have
Eight super strong teams, who should be capable of beating any other test team in the world
BCCI should take the role of ICC – I mean they should be the super body, just like ICC and all the other eight members should function as test-playing nations does in international format
Let them play with each other in all the three formats – test matches, one day and 20:20
Presence of 4-5 international players in each team will ensure a good competitive cricket.
Run it like a professional league (similar to football league)
For the time being
1 Don’t dismantle the domestic cricket – let it run the same way – use it for drawing the talent to professional league
2 Zonal academies should also be introduced to supply the fresh talent
3 Cut down on international matches by 50% … play with the best only . Let our players concentrate on local professional league
It’s a win –win for all the parties except ICC
What’s in it for BCCI?
Sell the TV rights and use the money for development of cricket at grass root level
What’s in it for corporate?
Advertisement, Free publicity, there clubs can be converted into a profitable business venture – similar to football clubs
What’s in it for cricketers?
Right now, only handful of players become really rich …rest of the lot…though maybe equally talented does not get the fair share. This system will ensure that large number of cricketers get enough to lead a respectable life
What’s in it for fans?
They get to see the completive game on regular basis without breaking down emotionally
Why corporate?
Simply because they are far more organized and professional in spotting talent, hiring, training and retaining. They know how to motivate and get the maximum out of a professional.
The bottom line
Imagine , Indian cricket after few years
1) It can have eight world class stadiums , having best of pitches and facilities
2) It can have eight world class coaches and support staff
3) It can have 150 professional players pool to choose a team of eleven for international matches
And much more – Just think over it – if you agree with me then email this to as many Indians as you can and put your comments on the blog at following link
Praveen Verma
albatross@afcl.com
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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4 comments:
Very well enunciated
send it to the press
to the media, circulate it as best as you can. It will catch attention and change the face of Indian cricket debacle and impact it has social-economic structure of the nation reverberating all the West Indies.
We dont realise how more than a 1.5 Billion people have been affected by this mismanagement of the most powerful driver of emerging India's future.
And its in the hands of some self agrandising petty polititians. Scary!
sir,
you have touched the root cause of demise of indian cricket.our selectors only care of thier zones.They are for fullfilling their quota and not searching the right talent.Otherwise how can you explain the contry like india where people live for cricket cannot produce atleast 10 tendulkar and 10 kapil dev.There is definately systemicaly
problem.You have toched the root cause. well done
- manoj ahuja
very well done sir,
this article should be published in all newspaper, so that those people running indian cricket board
realises their mistake and rectify it.
Keep up the good work.
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