Cricket Administrators

[Rajiv]

It's annoying, its frustrating and really sad to see that there is no single person or administrator who can run the show honestly and more importantly, correctly. We have a Butt who kisses a Lip-Sync Powar sitting with a clueless "May I take your order please" Lorgat. ICC President needs to be firm and call the shots, instead everyone is looking for diplomacy with lot of stuff swept under the carpet, backdoor biting with the public left to speculate everything vis-a-vis columns on the net. Instead, we have a mockery of the game, X blaming Y while Z is sleeping with everyone WTF - The whole series should have been stopped before anymore shyte hit the fan, and the show went on resulting in another match fixing allegation Butt might have blabbered conspiracy but why did he get a chance? Why couldn't all Cricket Boards just clamp down and vote for a clean show until all investigations are over. But the money is more important, well then this will go on coz no one is ready to set a precedent here It might be fun and drama but for purists, its a damn turn off. After AAS ( Amir, Asif, Salam ) - we had: 1) Mr. Leather Jacket White wine Candid Camera 2) Butt'er up 3) ECB Suing 4) Another ODI Allegation 5) Not welcome anymore here This is B.S

[ina_jawaan]

I wholeheartedly endorse your call for more decisive and transparent administration. I think basically we need a more accountable way of appointing cricket administrators. IMHO this requires a two pronged approach: i) cricket boards in different countries need to be more accountable to their stakeholders. As the largest and richest cricket administration in the world, it is far more important that the BCCI be transparent and accountable than for any other country. Once the BCCI has cleaned itself up, it can give a lead to other cricket boards (and even, if necessary, twist a few arms here and there) but only once it is in a position to claim the moral high ground. Similarly, in some countries like Pakistan, it is vital for the government to stop interfering in the appointment of cricket administrators. Same goes in varying degrees for Sri Lanka (repeatedly subject to government interference), Bangladesh, West Indies etc. 2) the ICC needs to be more independent of vested interests. At the moment the ICC finds it hard to give a lead on the important issues for fear of upsetting member boards (especially the richest members). Because there are so few international centres of cricket it is easy for just a few boards to exercise control. There needs to be a transparent institutional structure able to elect an independent executive body empowered to take decisions on behalf of the entire cricket community which is then binding on individual board members. Such a body could then rule, for example, that the present series has been irretrievably damaged in credibility and overrule any attempt by the ECB to prolong the series for commercial considerations; it could produce a sensible international calendar which balanced the demand for test, ODI and T20 cricket; it could negotiate more effectively with governments such as those in the India and Pakistan to legalise betting in order to make it more regulated and, of course, it could take more decisive action against cheating and more thoroughly investigate it in order to bring it into light. At the moment the game is beset by short termist and commercial considerations - which in the long run spell the end of cricket as we know it.