BCCI technical committee chairman Sourav "Dada" Ganguly's suggestions regarding current Indian cricketers signing short term contracts with English and other county clubs makes immense sense to me at least.......
"Dada" as he is affectionately referred to by both present day and former cricketers made this highly relevant and long overdue suggestion during the course of a recent meeting of the afore mentioned committee that was attended by both the newly appointed BCCI president and secretary Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke.........
Citing the example of the Delhi Daredevils IPL franchise skipper Zaheer Khan succinctly remarked that Zaheer was a transformed bowler after a highly successful and lucrative six month long stint with a first division English county team and the skills and dexterity acquired by him during these six months helped him play an integral role in team India winning test matches in England; Australia; South Africa; New Zealand and last but not the least Pakistan........
Furthering the case of current Indian players of the likes of Rohit Sharma; Cheteshwar Pujara; Shikhar Dhawan; Varun Aaron; Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav (to name just a few) "Dada" forcefully put forth a rather convincing and plausible argument about these cricketers benefiting immensely from similar stinsts with English first division counties and urged the BCCI bigwigs to initiate immediate negotiations with both their English Cricket Board counterparts as well as county sides so that present day Indian cricketers could sign up for English county sides between June and August (just after the conclusion of the IPL and commencement of the Indian domestic as well as international fixtures) as the experience gained through two or more such county stints would not only serve to embellish their already formidable cricketing skills but also equip them with the "tools" required to excel in alien conditions where team India has traditionally struggled to make an impression......
One may do well to remember the fact that the BCCI bigwigs have more often than not espoused the view that Indian cricketers should not be allowed or then dissuaded from participating in "foreign" T 20 and county leagues/championships as their participation would only serve to undermine and lower the brand value of the so called premier T 20 domestic league (in the entire cricketing world) namely the IPL) but also recently bent it's rigid and inflexible stance on the very same issue by allowing a former Indian cricketer to become a team member of a Bangladeshi T 20 side in their version of the IPL......
One only hopes that better sense and wisdom prevails within the echelons of the BCCI after "Dada" Ganguly's compelling and clinical argument thereby enabling Indian cricketers to explore "uncharted" territories and gain immensely from such cricketing stints.........
"Dada" as he is affectionately referred to by both present day and former cricketers made this highly relevant and long overdue suggestion during the course of a recent meeting of the afore mentioned committee that was attended by both the newly appointed BCCI president and secretary Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke.........
Citing the example of the Delhi Daredevils IPL franchise skipper Zaheer Khan succinctly remarked that Zaheer was a transformed bowler after a highly successful and lucrative six month long stint with a first division English county team and the skills and dexterity acquired by him during these six months helped him play an integral role in team India winning test matches in England; Australia; South Africa; New Zealand and last but not the least Pakistan........
Furthering the case of current Indian players of the likes of Rohit Sharma; Cheteshwar Pujara; Shikhar Dhawan; Varun Aaron; Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav (to name just a few) "Dada" forcefully put forth a rather convincing and plausible argument about these cricketers benefiting immensely from similar stinsts with English first division counties and urged the BCCI bigwigs to initiate immediate negotiations with both their English Cricket Board counterparts as well as county sides so that present day Indian cricketers could sign up for English county sides between June and August (just after the conclusion of the IPL and commencement of the Indian domestic as well as international fixtures) as the experience gained through two or more such county stints would not only serve to embellish their already formidable cricketing skills but also equip them with the "tools" required to excel in alien conditions where team India has traditionally struggled to make an impression......
One may do well to remember the fact that the BCCI bigwigs have more often than not espoused the view that Indian cricketers should not be allowed or then dissuaded from participating in "foreign" T 20 and county leagues/championships as their participation would only serve to undermine and lower the brand value of the so called premier T 20 domestic league (in the entire cricketing world) namely the IPL) but also recently bent it's rigid and inflexible stance on the very same issue by allowing a former Indian cricketer to become a team member of a Bangladeshi T 20 side in their version of the IPL......
One only hopes that better sense and wisdom prevails within the echelons of the BCCI after "Dada" Ganguly's compelling and clinical argument thereby enabling Indian cricketers to explore "uncharted" territories and gain immensely from such cricketing stints.........
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