Loopholes in BCCI's arrangement of IPL 2021

[neel roy]

1 hour ago, nevada said:

Hope this happens and you get to view a game or two at the stadium!

:) to get a t20 ticket with India playing in Lords or oval is tougher than getting a world cup ticket in wankhede.. reason is its not first come first serve.. there is a lottery process where everyone who wants to see a match has to apply with the ticket price at least 3 months in advance. After cut off date you will be notified if you have got the ticket.. if not immediately you will be refunded ( same goes for wimbledon) .. but if IPL does happen in london it ll catapult viewings to unheard levels.. the golden goose doesnt stop laying eggs for bcci.. be in india or abroad.. fingers x

[sage]

3 hours ago, neel roy said:

:) to get a t20 ticket with India playing in Lords or oval is tougher than getting a world cup ticket in wankhede.. reason is its not first come first serve.. there is a lottery process where everyone who wants to see a match has to apply with the ticket price at least 3 months in advance. After cut off date you will be notified if you have got the ticket.. if not immediately you will be refunded ( same goes for wimbledon) .. but if IPL does happen in london it ll catapult viewings to unheard levels.. the golden goose doesnt stop laying eggs for bcci.. be in india or abroad.. fingers x

can you not buy it from a resell market later?

[Franco Vazquez]

3 minutes ago, sage said:

can you not buy it from a resell market later?

 

You can but it is very expensive. For example in 2019 WC, I went to Pak vs NZ by getting a ticket through a reseller, original price was 18 pounds but i got it at 75 pounds

[poi]

6 hours ago, nevada said:

The earlier assumption was that all staff including cooks, groundsmen etc were inside the bubble but evidently not! 

Even if groundsmen were supposed to be in a bubble, only the players and high earning staff would have the incentive to follow through. It is a practical impossibility to have low wage earners to be strict just to earn basic wages, while the rest of the country were completely mask free and not worried about covid.
 

Who is going to monitor their every interaction? One solution would have been for all players to be in PPE at all times and have themselves clean their rooms. Again, not plausible.

[poi]

6 hours ago, nevada said:

The earlier assumption was that all staff including cooks, groundsmen etc were inside the bubble but evidently not! 

Even if groundsmen were supposed to be in a bubble, only the players and high earning staff would have the incentive to follow through. It is a practical impossibility to have low wage earners to be strict just to earn basic wages, while the rest of the country were completely mask free and not worried about covid.
 

Who is going to monitor their every interaction? One solution would have been for all players to be in PPE at all times and have themselves clean their rooms. Again, not plausible.

[neel roy]

4 hours ago, sage said:

can you not buy it from a resell market later?

Yeah it is possible..issue is for good matches it goes to above £1000. My most memorable match was India Pak champions trophy ( the group match not the final!)

[Mariyam]

3 hours ago, poi said:

Even if groundsmen were supposed to be in a bubble, only the players and high earning staff would have the incentive to follow through. It is a practical impossibility to have low wage earners to be strict just to earn basic wages, while the rest of the country were completely mask free and not worried about covid.
 

Who is going to monitor their every interaction? One solution would have been for all players to be in PPE at all times and have themselves clean their rooms. Again, not plausible.

Those in the bubble who were not cricketers or their immediate coaches/docs but were a part of the admin or ground staff got a daily hazard allowance/pay in addition to their regular salaries. Not a negligible amount for that category of work force.

[poi]

9 hours ago, Mariyam said:

Those in the bubble who were not cricketers or their immediate coaches/docs but were a part of the admin or ground staff got a daily hazard allowance/pay in addition to their regular salaries. Not a negligible amount for that category of work force.

Regardless of the hazard pay, all I am suggesting that only the players and high earning staffs would have incentive to be 1) educated about and 2) proactive about covid. Those that were doubling their salaries were still low wage earning staff that were likely working maskless (as can be seen in the first weeks of the IPL) and within their own category of people. It would only take a fraction of them to be less careful and they would be infected. Just outside the stadiums, covid was raging and the positive rate was going from 7% to 50%.

In hindsight, they could have stayed in one place, cut down the staff, have everybody in one(or few) monitored and (equally) secure bubble, and avoided the outside world. Was done in 2020 UAE, but not plausible in 2021 India.

[rkt.india]

On 5/5/2021 at 6:37 PM, Global.Baba said:

Embarrassing. Heads need to roll.

 

Also good cricketers don’t make great administrators  all the time.

 

I can’t put the blame on Ganguly alone for this  but in my experience watching cricket this is the 3rd big muck up in his leadership as an admin

 

I remember an Ind vs SA odi/t20 game in Kolkata got abandoned because it rained overnight and a ground like Eden Gardens had ground stuff running around with towels and regular house sponges to clean up the water.

 

WT20 2016 high profile  Ind vs Pak game was curtailed because of some political ceremony.

 

Now this.

 

Also Jay Shah not sure apart from being Amit Shah’s son what his credentials are. Obviously those are big enough credentials but what are his credentials?

 

Bring back Srini Mama or someone of his stature.

IPL isn't run by regular BCCI but by IPL committee which organizes it.

[Straight Drive]

On 5/6/2021 at 10:22 AM, nevada said:

Not interested in all the dirty details and postmortem but with so much money at stake, I thought the organizers would do whatever it takes to conduct an incident free tournament. They grossly understimated the level of hard work required to pull this off. 

Or perhaps it was not a good idea in first place to organize something of this scale during the worst calamity in 100 years. Maybe they tried to do the undoable.

Edited May 7, 2021 by Straight Drive

[nevada]

10 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Or perhaps it was not a good idea in first place to organize something of this scale during the worst calamity in 100 years. Maybe they tried to do the undoable.

Though the situation looked okay in January, during the England series itself it started going South, with spectators barred from the last few games. The IPL also would have to do the same and if you are not gonna allow spectators, it makes no sense to hold the event in India. That was the signal to reschedule to the UAE but the organizers didn't budge. Big mistake! 

Edited May 7, 2021 by nevada