#Castiest BCCI trending on Twitter.

[Chakdephatte]

Some Dilip Mandal spammed my timeline with a flurry of tweets regarding castiesm in BCCI. People followed him and made it a trend.

 

 

They speculate Suryakumar's caste as the reason behind him not playing in Bangladesh ODIs, the man who has played continuous cricket for whole year.

 

 

Edited November 24, 2022 by Chakdephatte

[Chakdephatte]

While the fact that cricket is more of an upper class game in India is true, the BCCI itself is not discriminatory. It may be that cricket is somewhat expensive at professional level. Even among higher castes, people shy away from sports unless they succeed at a very early age and have a backup option. I have observed that people in big cities watch more cricket in general (I was born in a village). More of a cultural thing. 

Edited November 24, 2022 by Chakdephatte

[Lone Wolf]

Jaahils don't know squads for BD & NZ tour are almost different coz BD tour starts 3 days after NZ tour. 

SKY is rested just like Siraj is rested for NZ ODI series. 

[Lone Wolf]

Boobi Koomar is a non Brahmin playing without performance since years...  If Anything BCCI should be grilled for ineptness rather than caste discrimination. 

[Frustrated]

Who is this spammer Dilip Mandal?  Not sure why he is stopping at caste.  Why not start religion as well?    I hv a question for him.   Why no Jain or Parsi or Jewish cricketer in the team?  

[prudent_kreeda]

Kya Cricket me bhi Quota system chahiye ? Idiots 

[Chakdephatte]

Looks like it's not the first time. Even the Hindu has articles on this *ery.

 

https://www.thehindu.com/society/why-we-need-reservations-in-cricket/article24656456.ece

 

https://m.thewire.in/article/caste/does-india-need-a-caste-based-quota-in-cricket

 

https://www.firstpost.com/india/indian-crickets-refusal-to-acknowledge-caste-privilege-cannot-mask-reality-of-its-pervasiveness-8986071.html

 

Edited November 24, 2022 by Chakdephatte

[Chakdephatte]

19 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

Who is this spammer Dilip Mandal?  Not sure why he is stopping at caste.

 

Writes for The Print 

https://theprint.in/author/dilip-mandal/

 

[Number]

Dilip Mandal is a grade A tuchiya who doesn't need to be taken seriously.

[vvvslaxman]

In TN this accusation has been around for a long time. CR Rangachari, Venkatraghavan, KrishSrikkanth, TE Srinivasn, WV Raman, Sadagopan Ramesh, Muali vijay. I am not sure if DK is brahmin. some say Nadar. I think he is Brahmin, Badrinath.  Ravi Ashwin  I am not sure about Balaji. Robin singh is the only player that i know for sure is not Brahmin. A West Indian origin player. You can still see this question floating around in Quora. 

[singhvivek141]

An irrelevant question, just a poor attempt to sensationalize and get some cheap publicity...nothing more.
What next, tommorow someone will start North-South divide...then something else, then something else.

[R!TTER]

While we're opening this pandora's box why not talk about the Velociraptor in the room - quotas & how they've destroyed helped meritocracy in India 

[Nash]

As Dalit SC my self I would vouch that BCCI is all other **** but not casteist.  You can’t make kambli a tendulkar when he can’t perform.  
 

other than some odd description in the early 90s , my family married Brahmin  Parel and other high caste.  However my forefather faced discrimination a lot in 1970s and before.  
 

 

[Number]

Where BCCI really lacked was that cricket in India was limited to top tier cities till 90s. Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and to an extent Delhi. Compare this to our neighbours Pakistan where they had cricketers even from villages like Waqar Younis. 

This is why whole large population argument was superficial. We always had very limited pool of players who got scouted.

[khadekhademaaro]

at least he did not say, why no Pakistani in the Indian team - tuchiya

[Khota]

It has always been a money sport. Not for poor people to begin with.

[Khota]

20 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

While we're opening this pandora's box why not talk about the Velociraptor in the room - quotas & how they've destroyed helped meritocracy in India 

I am in favor of some quotas, though I personally never benefitted from it.

[R!TTER]

Only for the economically marginalized, caste based quotas have outlived their utility for decades now!

[zen]

India is probably not mature enough for SM … Need some kind of restrictions on SM

[nevada]

There have been articles on this topic time to time. To cash in on this controversy, BCCI should conduct a tri-series between Dalit X1, Brahmin X1,  and Backward Castes X1!