BCCI takes U-Turn

It seems that Lalith Modi and I.S.Bindra are more powerful than the BCCI president when it comes to dealing with the ICL. Please read the message from Pawar few days back on the ICL players taking part in the T20 Champions League and the subsequent U turn the BCCI has taken in this respect.

"July 19th Sharad Pawar, the BCCI president, has said that all teams participating in the proposed Champions League have the freedom to include players of their choice for the US$5 million multi-club Twenty20 tournament, even it means including players with ties to the unauthorized Indian Cricket League (ICL). But he placed the onus on letting such teams go through on the countries they represent and warned that the BCCI would then have the freedom to take its decision on the issue."

BCCI has even gone to the extent of asking Pakistan to be prepared with their domestic side in case ECB withdraws from this league. Its sad that the ECB is in such a mess that they can't say no to the players and also don't want to face the wrath of the powerful BCCI. I feel that BCCI is using all its powers to make sure that ICL is just dumped, sad that the young cricketers part of the league has to face the uncertain future. We all know the domestic cricketers who joined the league are mostly economically backward and could not resist the lure of big money. Hope BCCI atleast lets the players who are young a chance by letting them get back to their respective domestic state teams for the good of the game.

India Cements regained the Hindu trophy in the local tournament in Chennai, It was again the old horses performing in both the sides to make a match of it. Sharath and Suresh performed to make sure there was no surprises and for Chemplast it was again Ajay Kuduwa (Veteran kerala ranji star) and D.Vasu to perform, Vidyuth who scored a hundred in the semi-finals failed in the finals. Sharath seems to have the luck (atleast in domestic cricket) in picking man of the match, in spite of an all round display by IC captain Suresh (3 wickets and 39 runs) Sharath's 70 fetched him the Man of the Match. Sad that none of the youngsters made an impact in the tournament.


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