Dear Mr.Pawar,
The shameful,horrendous,horrific,heart rending and barbaric spectacle of the police lathi charging and beating many Bangalorean cricket fans into submission while they were queing up in an orderly manner to procure tickets for Sunday's epic clash between the English lions and the men in blue has once again proved that you indeed are the most sloppy,lethargic,indifferent,unprofessional and apathetic president that the International Cricket Council has ever had in it's chequered history.
One can only wonder and ponder why you in your infinfite wisdom have simply failed to realise the simple truth that it is the paying fan that makes the glorious game of cricket what it is and not you, your cronies, self serving politicians, greedy and unscrupulous bureaucrats, office bearers and self appointed officials of affiliated clubs who merrily indulge in black marketing and profiteering by merrily siphoning of the tickets allotted to them at four-five times their original price, thereby enriching themsleves at the cost of many a fawning cricket fans.
The hackneyed and imbecilic defence provided by the Bangalore Police Commissioner "it is better to inflict minor injuries rather than watch major one's being inflicted later on" did indeed border on the bizarre and made one wonder whether the concerned official was living in Bengaluru or Sir Geoffrey Boycott's "CUCKOOLAND", and pray do enlighten both me and well as the entire world why the ICC wanted 11,500 tickets for itself when it is a pithy body comprising of barely 1,500-2,000 members and their cronies who have assigned themselves the right to govern this glorious game in as amateurish a manner as possible.
Have you lost sight or then conveniently forgotten the fact that it is your three terms as the Vice-President and President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that has elevated you the present position of the ICC president and not any sterling achievements and administrative qualities displayed by you and it is the passionate,paying,patriotic,fawning and worshipping fan who has made the BCCI the most powerful cricketing board within the ICC ranks and not any miracles wreaked by you and your chamchas.
Pray, do tell us why the so called sponsors are allowed to get away with almost 30-35% of the match tickets as they are not doing anybody a favour by lending a helping hand and supporting this game of glorious uncertainities but their bottom lines increase manifold by the millions of eyeballs garnered by their association with the game and the worldwide visibility that this association guarantees them and their product/range of products so then why are they allowed to enjoy a mammoth share of the spoils at the cost of millions of paying cricket fans.
The CEO of the International Cricket Council did indeed display humility, sympathy, empathy and statesman like qualities by accepting that the lopsided,opaque,out dated,out moded and highly unprofessional methods of distributing/selling tickets at the match venue did indeed need to be revamped,reworked,rethought and restrategised but neither you nor the president of the offending association Shri Anil Kumble had the humility to come out and issue a statement of regret or apology at the reprehensible events that unfolded outside the gates of the KSCA stadium in the glare of domestic and international television cameras, please remember that you are occupying both your ministerial and gubernatorial positions due to the benificence and munifecence of the public and not because youn have done anything do deserve them.
So do wake up from your deep slumber and start discharging your duties in the manner that they deserve to be discharged before the public takes matters into it's own hands and boots you out of these positions of power and pelf that you have come to believe are your birthright.
Yours Truly,
A Concerned Cricket fan,
SUNDEEP CHOPRA.
The shameful,horrendous,horrific,heart rending and barbaric spectacle of the police lathi charging and beating many Bangalorean cricket fans into submission while they were queing up in an orderly manner to procure tickets for Sunday's epic clash between the English lions and the men in blue has once again proved that you indeed are the most sloppy,lethargic,indifferent,unprofessional and apathetic president that the International Cricket Council has ever had in it's chequered history.
One can only wonder and ponder why you in your infinfite wisdom have simply failed to realise the simple truth that it is the paying fan that makes the glorious game of cricket what it is and not you, your cronies, self serving politicians, greedy and unscrupulous bureaucrats, office bearers and self appointed officials of affiliated clubs who merrily indulge in black marketing and profiteering by merrily siphoning of the tickets allotted to them at four-five times their original price, thereby enriching themsleves at the cost of many a fawning cricket fans.
The hackneyed and imbecilic defence provided by the Bangalore Police Commissioner "it is better to inflict minor injuries rather than watch major one's being inflicted later on" did indeed border on the bizarre and made one wonder whether the concerned official was living in Bengaluru or Sir Geoffrey Boycott's "CUCKOOLAND", and pray do enlighten both me and well as the entire world why the ICC wanted 11,500 tickets for itself when it is a pithy body comprising of barely 1,500-2,000 members and their cronies who have assigned themselves the right to govern this glorious game in as amateurish a manner as possible.
Have you lost sight or then conveniently forgotten the fact that it is your three terms as the Vice-President and President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that has elevated you the present position of the ICC president and not any sterling achievements and administrative qualities displayed by you and it is the passionate,paying,patriotic,fawning and worshipping fan who has made the BCCI the most powerful cricketing board within the ICC ranks and not any miracles wreaked by you and your chamchas.
Pray, do tell us why the so called sponsors are allowed to get away with almost 30-35% of the match tickets as they are not doing anybody a favour by lending a helping hand and supporting this game of glorious uncertainities but their bottom lines increase manifold by the millions of eyeballs garnered by their association with the game and the worldwide visibility that this association guarantees them and their product/range of products so then why are they allowed to enjoy a mammoth share of the spoils at the cost of millions of paying cricket fans.
The CEO of the International Cricket Council did indeed display humility, sympathy, empathy and statesman like qualities by accepting that the lopsided,opaque,out dated,out moded and highly unprofessional methods of distributing/selling tickets at the match venue did indeed need to be revamped,reworked,rethought and restrategised but neither you nor the president of the offending association Shri Anil Kumble had the humility to come out and issue a statement of regret or apology at the reprehensible events that unfolded outside the gates of the KSCA stadium in the glare of domestic and international television cameras, please remember that you are occupying both your ministerial and gubernatorial positions due to the benificence and munifecence of the public and not because youn have done anything do deserve them.
So do wake up from your deep slumber and start discharging your duties in the manner that they deserve to be discharged before the public takes matters into it's own hands and boots you out of these positions of power and pelf that you have come to believe are your birthright.
Yours Truly,
A Concerned Cricket fan,
SUNDEEP CHOPRA.
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