The many conflicts of president Ganguly

[SK_IH]

Excerpts : 

"On December 14, Edtech startup Classplus announced Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly as brand ambassador. Classplus are the direct competitors of Team India’s shirt sponsors Byju’s. This is president Ganguly’s second association with a company whose rivals are BCCI sponsors: he endorses fantasy gamers My11Circle, whose rival Dream11 paid Rs 222 crore to be the 2020 IPL title sponsor."

 

"The position of BCCI president has been held by politicians, businessmen, lawyers, operators, hucksters. Never an India captain loved by millions. It is the new BCCI constitution that sent Ganguly to the top of Indian cricket, where his image and deeds could carry real influence. But his actions indicate that he’s chosen to cling on to power and build his own brand. That’s called playing down the wrong line."

 

Full article : https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/the-many-conflicts-of-president-ganguly/story-PUOrqjm0YzeEwQWsaYMCGI.html

[Stan AF]

Story of Indian cricket.

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, Stan AF said:

Story of Indian cricket.

Story of India in general. 

[SK_IH]

I hope Srinivasan is back at the helm & some one like Dravid takes over cricketing side of things. Indian cricket needs cultural change & dynamic mindset.

Ganguly should make teams for My11circle & criticize performances sitting in studio. He should take his great friend Ravi Shastri with him. 

[kosingh]

Ganguly has been very disappointing. I guess good captains don't automatically make good administrators

[SK_IH]

11 minutes ago, kosingh said:

Ganguly has been very disappointing. I guess good captains don't automatically make good administrators

I hope to see him become chief selector, he has great eye for talent. But ofcourse that's not a plum post in comparison to BCCI President. Whatever gullible fans might think but all these guys are self centred. Success of Indian cricket is not always the priority.

Edited December 21, 2020 by SK_IH

[diga]

1 hour ago, kosingh said:

Ganguly has been very disappointing. I guess good captains don't automatically make good administrators

 

They can provided they have very high standards of morality.. Ganguly was more known for in-your-face captaincy & selectorial choices. 

[Suhaan]

Any change would be temporary,lets assume someone like Gill/Pant becoming captain they all will be worse as they have grown up watching how to abuse the power which comes with Kaptani

Basically Indian youth has wrogn people look at

A decade ago ,kids grew up watching the likes of Dravid,Sachin,Laxman etc

[Straight Drive]

37 minutes ago, Suhaan said:

Any change would be temporary,lets assume someone like Gill/Pant becoming captain they all will be worse as they have grown up watching how to abuse the power which comes with Kaptani

Basically Indian youth has wrogn people look at

A decade ago ,kids grew up watching the likes of Dravid,Sachin,Laxman etc

Very true. Once they get the chair they behave differently. Even the humblest of person will not take the decisions that are expected once he gets there. Fans will keep having false hopes but nothing's gonna change. 

[Suhaan]

3 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Very true. Once they get the chair they behave differently. Even the humblest of person will not take the decisions that are expected once he gets there. Fans will keep having false hopes but nothing's gonna change. 

Solution is power shouldn't be concentrated to one/two individuals

 

Eng,Aus,NZ never had the culture of hero worship like ours as a result they have always been front-runners in innovating the game

 

We always oppose someone who has the vision and will to make reforms

Greg Chappell was opposed by Ganguly even Indian public was hell bent on getting him resigned

Kumble was not a yes man hence Kohli got him out and Shastri in ,the world knows what's Shastri's primary job and still will be Indias longest running main coach,travesty

We have actually spoiled our youth,it will take something to make a culture change

Kohli-Shastri era will be remembered as the darkest era in Indian cricket,i consider it darker than the era ( match fixing fiasco) back in 2000

[Straight Drive]

1 minute ago, Suhaan said:

Solution is power shouldn't be concentrated to one/two individuals

 

Eng,Aus,NZ never had the culture of hero worship like ours as a result they have always been front-runners in innovating the game

 

We always oppose someone who has the vision and will to make reforms

Greg Chappell was opposed by Ganguly even Indian public was hell bent on getting him resigned

Kumble was not a yes man hence Kohli got him out and Shastri in ,the world knows what's Shastri's primary job and still will be Indias longest running main coach,travesty

We have actually spoiled our youth,it will take something to make a culture change

Kohli-Shastri era will be remembered as the darkest era in Indian cricket,i consider it darker than the era ( match fixing fiasco) back in 2000

Very good post, Sirji.

 

Too much of hero worship, indeed. Some hard and long training sessions and the coach becomes bad, not suited to our super star players. These cricketers then with help of someone leak to media that this coach isn't suitable to work with I dian cricketers as he doesn't understand culture and sporting sessions the way these cricketers want to do as per their liking.

 

I know of one  coach. I won't name him, but he was very strict with two cricketers. They were sleeping in morning. When the coach sent his assistant to their room to ask them to come to nets, the booze bottles and cigarette packets were lying besides them. That is how strict coaches are, they don't care of how big the players are.

[ShoonyaSifar]

What is this crap called conflict of interest? BCCI President is a honorary post, Ganguly does not get paid a penny (unlike the CoA jokers, each of whom pocked a few crores for destroying our cricket). He's a right to earn clean money and is free to chose brands he wants to endorse. Will a lawyer, businessman or a politician be asked to stop practising his profession if he becomes BCCI president?

[Suhaan]

20 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Very good post, Sirji.

 

Too much of hero worship, indeed. Some hard and long training sessions and the coach becomes bad, not suited to our super star players. These cricketers then with help of someone leak to media that this coach isn't suitable to work with I dian cricketers as he doesn't understand culture and sporting sessions the way these cricketers want to do as per their liking.

 

I know of one  coach. I won't name him, but he was very strict with two cricketers. They were sleeping in morning. When the coach sent his assistant to their room to ask them to come to nets, the booze bottles and cigarette packets were lying besides them. That is how strict coaches are, they don't care of how big the players are.

Plz don't address me as Sirji, sir

You are elder its rather me who should be addressing you as Sir and i have always found your and @express bowling posts as the most balanced ones  ,Sir you have said absolutely right,people tend to harbor grudge against strict coaches/ leaders in every walk of life

[Straight Drive]

1 minute ago, Suhaan said:

Plz don't address me as Sirji, sir

You are elder its rather me who should be addressing you as Sir and i have always found your and @express bowling posts as the most balanced ones  ,Sir you have said absolutely right,people tend to harbor grudge against strict coaches/ leaders in every walk of life

 

Thanks for the kind words regarding the posts. 

 

It's like student going to school deciding how the teacher should teach and if he does not likes the teaching method and homework then he asks principal to change the teacher. Sadly some of decisions by BCCI were based on students complain about teachers (read coach).  This is nothing but pampering. 

 

There is so much money in Indian cricket now, that it's a big business. These guys are good at managing the business, by that I mean that they are very good to ensure that their brand does not takes a hit. That's it. The other aspects and abilities of handling a cricketing team will be missing. 

 

Suddenly they realized they need to develop youngsters for future. Whom are the fooling. When the presentation and expectations between management and coaches take place, they usually share how they manage to develop talents. It's a key aspect. Even the board has this vision when selecting coaches. Why did they forget that for last few years and realized only after 36 innings. They are managing it again.

[OpeningBatsman]

Khud ko champ samajte ho op? 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by OpeningBatsman

[Soorma_Bhopali]

BCCI PResident is an honorary position stripped of most of the powers in current set up . There is not much a BCCI president can do other than ensure organizing tournaments on -time . We actually need a Head of Cricket / Director of cricket with teeth to hold coach,captain and support staff accountable who in turn will report to CEO along with RTI to ensure that board is accountable to the fans.

[Straight Drive]

9 minutes ago, Soorma_Bhopali said:

BCCI PResident is an honorary position stripped of most of the powers in current set up . There is not much a BCCI president can do other than ensure organizing tournaments on -time . We actually need a Head of Cricket / Director of cricket with teeth to hold coach,captain and support staff accountable who in turn will report to CEO along with RTI to ensure that board is accountable to the fans.

BCCI being accountable to the fans will only be a dream. A fan is only there to pay the cricketers money from your pocket by means of revenue generated from ticket sales, merchandise sales, watch in front of TV or mobile to boost TRP so they can get more broadcast revenue. That's what a fan is useful for them, not for BCCI being accountable to the fans.

 

 

[ThirtyD.]

5 hours ago, SK_IH said:

I hope to see him become chief selector, he has great eye for talent. But ofcourse that's not a plum post in comparison to BCCI President. Whatever gullible fans might think but all these guys are self centred. Success of Indian cricket is not always the priority.

 

I hope not. He might bring back Ranadeb Bose and Ashoke "I leap higher than Allan Donald" Dinda. 

[Gollum]

At least Dada can be vocal about the madness that we are seeing in Indian cricket, not a word about this circus TM? 

[Suhaan]

3 minutes ago, Gollum said:

At least Dada can be vocal about the madness that we are seeing in Indian cricket, not a word about this circus TM? 

Very puzzling from an outsider's perspective

I thought he would atleast put leash on Shastri