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BCCTs diktat unacceptable

Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmed
The fact that the gentleman's (?) game was getting increasingly political, including the loathsome system's financial parapherna-
lia and obnoxious ad-biz, was evident from scores of multinational corruptive incidents that have occasionally shamed the sport more than politics.
Rarely has an organisation representing a country in sports played its cards so unashamedly to fulfil its carnal desire for making more money when the iron is hot. India thankfully does not have that moral pedestal to dictate terms on a 'cricketing nation' that encompasses now almost the entire world.
What the Board of Control for Cricket in India's working committee approved January 23 at its Chennai meeting in the guise of advocating the restructuring of the International Cricket Council tantamount to crudely mimicking the palace politics of feudal maharajahs; they too collected khajna.
BCCI in the most immodest terms warned other ICC full members that India shall not participate in ICC events in those countries if the ICC Executive Board did not endorse a bizarre scheme to isolate three coun-
tries (Australia, England and India) from the rest of the world. There is no information as yet of similar bully approach from Cricket Australia or the England and Wales Cricket Board.
BCCI is supporting formation of cricket's own Security Council by setting up a new Executive Committee (ExCo) with 'permanent memberships' for BCCI, CA and ECB, which shall control the game in the boardroom and on the field, acting as the “sole recommendation committee ...on all constitutional, personnel, integrity, ethics, development and nominations matters".
In a proposed 2-tier system there shall be no relegation from Test cricket for the three Highnesses whatever be their future standard. The other full members may be relegated; what an audacity?
The Future Tours Programme shall go to the dogs and countries will decide on their Test opponents, an arrangement that will kill the successful efforts to globalize the game.
The crux of this proposed revamp is obviously (no MoM prize for guessing) the distribution of ICC revenue which BCCI expects will rocket from its current plus four percent to a colossal plus twenty.
The so-called big three will hold chairs of ICC, ExCo and Finance &
Commercial Affairs committee, the latter prepared the proposal under the influence of the stooped three.
The ICC executive board meeting in Dubai end-January is unlikely to give its nod given the worldwide condemnation, including from Indians. Public opinion is against the proposal. Nearly 80% of about 40,000 voters on an ESPN poll said BCCI's proposal was "not good for cricket".
World cricket was made proud by Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim's boldness, the first among international cricketers to speak out against the proposal. His fans are behind him.
One wonders how strongly India would protest if say Spain, Germany and Argentina formed a coalition to rule FIFA forever; or, if Australia, Germany and the Netherlands schemed to keep India out of the hockey kitty. Thankfully, not all people involved in sports are greedy and senseless.
BCCI's thinking is deplorable in the manner in which its debauched reasoning was laced with a broadside on its long time cricketing colleagues; call it wholesale bullying if you will. This is cricket terrorism.
The author is former Advisory Sports Editor, The Daily Star