Here's why Kumble quit the NCA

[SachDan]

Conflict of interest forced Kumble, a man with too many ideas, to quit. Nothing as direct as the kind that BCCI president N Srinivasan indulges in but enough to let murmurs in the shadows grow stronger. It's one thing to be a player and observe what is happening in the Board of Control for Cricket in India and quite another to become part of the establishment and fight the officials on their own ground. Anil Kumble found that out pretty quickly - in 15 months to be precise. The former India skipper took over as chairman from Ravi Shastri and had quickly outlined a three-year plan; a vision of how he wanted the academy to shape up. But instead he found that his plans were discussed a lot -- only discussed. Things only got worse when all the allegations involving Anil Kumble's player management company, Tenvic, came out in the open. That episode laid the seeds of doubt in every BCCI member's mind. So the process got even slower. Eventually, it ground to a standstill. But Kumble's decision to resign boiled down to three things: 1. The BCCI's premier cricket academy, the NCA (National Cricket Academy India) is in Bangalore. Kumble was the chairman of this facility. But other than this academy, the BCCI also has three specialist academies - one for batting in Mumbai, the pace bowling academy in Mohali and the spin bowling and wicketkeepers' academy in Chennai. Now all of these committees are stand-alone - they do not submit reports to the NCA. Instead, Lalchand Rajput, who heads the batting academy, sends the reports directly to N Srinivasan. So it basically means that the NCA becomes little more than a rehab centre for most of the year. Kumble wanted to change this. But many members in the BCCI felt that such a move would give the former India skipper access to players early and allow him to sign them for Tenvic. So eventually, the request was snubbed. 2. Kumble had made a presentation to the BCCI to teach life skills to the players in 2010. The personality development programme that included finance management, stress management, anti-doping code, media management and how to handle instant success was to be conducted through Tenvic, a division of Anil Kumble Sports Pvt Ltd, and each session was to be monitored by Kumble himself. The programme would have cost Rs 2.9 lakh per player. But in October this year, that proposal was shot down by the Board. Kumble wanted the players to remain in Bangalore for 12 months. The official reason was that BCCI felt that 12 months was too long for a young cricketer to remain in just one place. But according to source, the Board officials once again had felt that Kumble was directly benefitting from this arrangement - another conflict of interest. 3. The third and final blow for Kumble was the BCCI's decision to put the plan to set up an injury database on all the Indian players on the backburner. Kumble had been in talks with IT major Infosys to set it up but the BCCI once again thought that a major cut was going to Kumble. Part of the suspicion may have come from the news that normally such a set-up doesn't cost more than around 5000 pounds sterling. But according to sources, Kumble was quoting a much-larger amount. Whether real or perceived, once Kumble's fellow officials started doubting his intentions it was tough for him to get any real work down. He ran into BCCI's babudom at its best and found that he had no answer except perhaps to resign. But in this day and age, conflict of interest is almost a pre-requisite to get into the BCCI. Many other BCCI officials have clear conflicts of interest but they still remain standing. On the other hand, an outsider like Kumble was quickly shown his place. In the 'You scratch my back and I will scratch yours' world of the BCCI, Kumble was thought to be too selfish. And that's the cruel irony. http://m.firstpost.com/sd.php?cat_id=36&page=2&id=155242 *

[MCcricket]

Good Info, I am not sure what to make of it yet.

[bulbul]

AK is too greedy should have offered some Commission to other poor BCCI babus

[rahulrulezz]

I know most of us Indian fans believe in player-worshipping n treating our players as some kinda gods but it's obvious AKumble was being naughty there. How can u be president of National cricket academy, President of Kca, Chief mentor of Bangalore royals and owner of Telvic at same time. AK might potray himself gentleman but this act of his was totally pAthetic.

Kumble had made a presentation to the BCCI to teach life skills to the players in 2010. The personality development programme that included finance management, stress management, anti-doping code, media management and how to handle instant success was to be conducted through Tenvic, a division of Anil Kumble Sports Pvt Ltd, and each session was to be monitored by Kumble himself. The programme would have cost Rs 2.9 lakh per player. But in October this year, that proposal was shot down by the Board.

[bulbul]

^ there are more examples like that..one is Sreeni :giggle:

[Jersey #10]

greed...

[punjabi_khota]

Finger in too many pies.

[MCcricket]

What pisses me is the TENVIC link if it is true and selectors partialities towards a region,as any company , contracts have to be given by inviting tenders, and then the best party is givena contract, I hope this stuff is not true but then greed has no bounds thought players made a lot, but then it might just be conflict of interest issue.

[Trundler27]

:facepalm: not sure which side to believe..... Kumble is a multi crorepati so the greed part is a bit hard to digest but I have read stories about millionaires being involved in ponzi schemes so it is quite possible. If Kumble was really out to promote tenvic in this role then i'm extremely dissappointed in him. I really thought that he would be a fantastic person to strengthen indian domestic cricket given the appropriate role in the administration.

[asterix]

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[Sid]

Golmaal hai bhai sab golmaal hai................

[Sachin=GOD]

Sad.

[Needforspeed]

The conflict of interest is obvious and will contiue as long as Anil Kumble continues to own Tenvic while being president of Karnataka Cricket Association.Association presidents are key functionaries - They have votes in the BCCI election and also select the Zonal representative in the selection committee. The fact that there are others in the BCCI with conflict of interest doesn't reduce the seriousness of Kumble's case. It only indicates he apparantly appears to be in the same dirty boat as others. Kumble's assertion that the sucess of the players signed up by Tenvic doesn't result in financial gain for the company is not convincing. What are they signing up the players then? We dont know whether Kumble is guilty of commercially mis-using his position or not, but the perception will remain so as long as he is President of KSCA and running Tenvic. The conflict of interest exists.

[akshayxyz]

As per the OP - it is clearly a case of conflict of interest. But there are workarounds for such things in Indian setup, perhaps Kumble got too greedy, as it is hard to believe that BCCI officials have strong ethics. And most likely Kumble was ill advised, otherwise there would have been some work around.

[pensionplan]

Asked to comment on Anil Kumble's resignation as NCA's chairman, Gavaskar said, "When someone of his (Anil's) credibility speaks about a programme then one should always discuss it properly. You may not agree with him 100 per cent but one should look at what he says." The former India skipper feels that BCCI should have handled the Kumble issue in a better manner. "He has played the game at the highest level and has also suffered from injuries. So if he had a plan, it must have been for the benefit of players. The board could have told him that this is expensive but we can try and make certain adjustments. As a chairman of NCA, I use to be in Bangalore attending policy making meetings at the NCA, but I wasn't present there full-time. It would be great if someone is associated with the day-to-day activities of the NCA," Gavaskar said. Kumble offered his resignation, apparently, after serious differences with top board officials regarding the functioning of NCA.

[rkt.india]

I know most of us Indian fans believe in player-worshipping n treating our players as some kinda gods but it's obvious AKumble was being naughty there. How can u be president of National cricket academy' date=' President of Kca, Chief mentor of Bangalore royals and owner of Telvic at same time. AK might potray himself gentleman but this act of his was totally pAthetic.[/quote'] Because Chairman of NCA and President of KSCA are Honorary jobs. He does not get a penny for those services and has every right to earn his living and that is why he had started Tenvic.

[akshayxyz]

Asked to comment on Anil Kumble's resignation as NCA's chairman' date= Gavaskar said, "When someone of his (Anil's) credibility speaks about a programme then one should always discuss it properly. You may not agree with him 100 per cent but one should look at what he says." The former India skipper feels that BCCI should have handled the Kumble issue in a better manner. "He has played the game at the highest level and has also suffered from injuries. So if he had a plan, it must have been for the benefit of players. The board could have told him that this is expensive but we can try and make certain adjustments. As a chairman of NCA, I use to be in Bangalore attending policy making meetings at the NCA, but I wasn't present there full-time. It would be great if someone is associated with the day-to-day activities of the NCA," Gavaskar said. Kumble offered his resignation, apparently, after serious differences with top board officials regarding the functioning of NCA.

Ad Hominem. Whatever he did in the past can/should not be used to prove whether there was conflict of interest or not.

[vamos_rafa]

Because Chairman of NCA and President of KSCA are Honorary jobs. He does not get a penny for those services and has every right to earn his living and that is why he had started Tenvic.

Yes and on top of it, he openly had also declared that he also has to earn to live.

[gaurav92]

Really sad :(

[rkt.india]

Yes and on top of it' date=' he openly had also declared that he also has to earn to live.[/quote'] Yes.