THE IPL PROBE: PROJECT COVER UP Deceit. Deception. Denial. Secret meetings and conspiracies that would put Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to shame, and a whole lot of cloak and dagger stuff. Welcome to the secret lair of the BCCI where the sun never rises and N Srinivasan is always right. They say that the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one. Obviously, that doesn’t apply to the IPL probe. Or as I like to call it, the BCCI cover-up. Every step of the way, the BCCI has been at pains to ensure that everybody knows that whatever wrongdoing happened, they weren’t part of it. It happened. But we didn’t do it. They have been sounding like toddlers denying their involvement in the window that was broken, when they should have been the stern parents. Except it wasn’t just a window, but the credibility of an entire league, the players that participate in it and the board that governs it. If the BCCI is a business organization, and cricket is the product, the fans are the primary stakeholders. Obviously, the BCCI isn’t just any business; it does enjoy a monopoly. The BCCI officials control the product; there are no viable alternatives (hockey, anybody?) so they feel that they can sit tight, twiddle their thumbs and deny any involvement, secure in the knowledge that it is very much a seller’s market. They did nothing at all to let the public know that all possible steps were being taken to get to the root of the problem and eradicate it once and for all. Problem? What problem? Here, have a CSK sticker. The hard facts are these: three Rajasthan Royals players were arrested for spot-fixing, Rajasthan Royals’ co-owner Raj Kundra confessed to betting on the results of games, including those involving his team, Gurunath Meiyappan, a top official of the Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of the BCCI president Srinivasan, was arrested by the Mumbai police on charges of cheating, forgery and fraud, and N Srinivasan refused to resign, citing the company line, and I quote him verbatim, ‘I have done nothing wrong’. And that’s not all; Gurunath magically went from being ‘Team Owner’ to ‘Honorary Member’. Tsk tsk, we mustn’t tell lies. CREDITZ:-sportskeeda/2013/07/30/the-ipl-probe-project-cover-up/
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:30:00 +0000
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