Is loyalty to the BCCI and it's head honchos more desirable than loyalty towards team India and the sport or game that all but gave you your identity name and fame; well the answer certainly lies in the affirmative as far as one Ravishankar Jayadrith Shastri is concerned..........
Shastri was recently appointed as the Director of team India for the forthcoming five match ODI series and one off T 20 international against a rampaging English team that is hell bent upon rubbing copious amounts of salt into team India's already festering wounds and will be helped in his endeavours to salvage team India's sagging or rather calamitously plummeting fortunes by former Indian medium pacer Bharat Arun and all rounder Sanjay Bangar..........
One may do well to recall the fact that the very same Mr. Shastri discharged a similar role way back in 2007 in an ODI series against minnows Bangladesh after the then team India coach Greg Chappell's unceremonious exit and was showered with plaudits and encomiums for ensuring that team India emerged triumphant in a series that they would have anyway won with one hand tied behind their backs..........
Shastri is a sworn "yes man" of the thoroughly discredited and disgraced cricket establishment that continues to rule the roost despite severe strictures being passed against it by the Supreme Court more times than one can count and the Mudgal Committee in the process of unfolding or unearthing a can of worms that will leave many a BCCI bigwig scuttling for cover and Shastri's utterances more than prove the charge about his being nothing more than a "glorified chamcha" of Messrs Srinivasan and his cronies...........
One may do well to recall the fact that Mr. Shastri famously dubbed Lalit Modi, the creator and brain of BCCI's most famous and pre-eminent property the Indian Premier League or IPL a "Moses and Pariah" who had brought untold shame and misery unto the supposedly fair name of Indian cricket with his alleged acts of omission and commission, may one ask Mr. Shastri how his benefactor, mentor and "Annadaata" Narayanswamy Srinivasan is any different or better than the now disgraced and isolated Lalit Modi??????
The very same Mr. Ravi Shastri has also been guilty on the charges of blindly toeing the BCCI's increasingly ludicrous and irrational stance pertaining to the allegedly sacrilegious Decision Review System or DRS that has been wholeheartedly endorsed and adopted by the rest of the cricketing world despite it's numerous flaws (in the supposedly informed and sagacious view of the BCCI mandarins) and the omission of the same only cost team India dear in the recently concluded test series against England where many an erroneous decision made by the on field umpires could have been reviewed and overturned only if the DRS had been in vogue............
A "dyed in the wool" Srinivasan acolyte is not the answer to team India's plethora of problems; rather what team India requires is a man at the helm who answers to none other than the interests of the avowed Indian cricket fan who has placed this glorious game on the pedestal that it graces and given it the exalted status it enjoys and more importantly a three year plan exclusively devoted to redeeming team India's standing as a test team of some stature and substance but this will never happen as long as men like Srinivasan and Shastri who consider their own narrow, bigoted and selfish interest over and above that of Indian cricket and the paying public who is still willing to back a beleaguered and disjointed team wholeheartedly and without any reservations.........
A revolution is what Indian cricket needs most at this crucial juncture of it's cricketing history but for that to come about all right thinking former cricketers and administrators will have to come together on a common platform and depose the current dispensation.........
Harsh reality or then a pipe dream????well your guess on this one is as good as mine............
Shastri was recently appointed as the Director of team India for the forthcoming five match ODI series and one off T 20 international against a rampaging English team that is hell bent upon rubbing copious amounts of salt into team India's already festering wounds and will be helped in his endeavours to salvage team India's sagging or rather calamitously plummeting fortunes by former Indian medium pacer Bharat Arun and all rounder Sanjay Bangar..........
One may do well to recall the fact that the very same Mr. Shastri discharged a similar role way back in 2007 in an ODI series against minnows Bangladesh after the then team India coach Greg Chappell's unceremonious exit and was showered with plaudits and encomiums for ensuring that team India emerged triumphant in a series that they would have anyway won with one hand tied behind their backs..........
Shastri is a sworn "yes man" of the thoroughly discredited and disgraced cricket establishment that continues to rule the roost despite severe strictures being passed against it by the Supreme Court more times than one can count and the Mudgal Committee in the process of unfolding or unearthing a can of worms that will leave many a BCCI bigwig scuttling for cover and Shastri's utterances more than prove the charge about his being nothing more than a "glorified chamcha" of Messrs Srinivasan and his cronies...........
One may do well to recall the fact that Mr. Shastri famously dubbed Lalit Modi, the creator and brain of BCCI's most famous and pre-eminent property the Indian Premier League or IPL a "Moses and Pariah" who had brought untold shame and misery unto the supposedly fair name of Indian cricket with his alleged acts of omission and commission, may one ask Mr. Shastri how his benefactor, mentor and "Annadaata" Narayanswamy Srinivasan is any different or better than the now disgraced and isolated Lalit Modi??????
The very same Mr. Ravi Shastri has also been guilty on the charges of blindly toeing the BCCI's increasingly ludicrous and irrational stance pertaining to the allegedly sacrilegious Decision Review System or DRS that has been wholeheartedly endorsed and adopted by the rest of the cricketing world despite it's numerous flaws (in the supposedly informed and sagacious view of the BCCI mandarins) and the omission of the same only cost team India dear in the recently concluded test series against England where many an erroneous decision made by the on field umpires could have been reviewed and overturned only if the DRS had been in vogue............
A "dyed in the wool" Srinivasan acolyte is not the answer to team India's plethora of problems; rather what team India requires is a man at the helm who answers to none other than the interests of the avowed Indian cricket fan who has placed this glorious game on the pedestal that it graces and given it the exalted status it enjoys and more importantly a three year plan exclusively devoted to redeeming team India's standing as a test team of some stature and substance but this will never happen as long as men like Srinivasan and Shastri who consider their own narrow, bigoted and selfish interest over and above that of Indian cricket and the paying public who is still willing to back a beleaguered and disjointed team wholeheartedly and without any reservations.........
A revolution is what Indian cricket needs most at this crucial juncture of it's cricketing history but for that to come about all right thinking former cricketers and administrators will have to come together on a common platform and depose the current dispensation.........
Harsh reality or then a pipe dream????well your guess on this one is as good as mine............
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