BCCI finally gets its act together, for now
Evidently stung by a lot of criticism for the way it has handled the process of selecting the next coach for the Indian cricket team, the BCCI has finally come up with the committee to do the selection. The members are Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri and S Venkatraghavan. BCCI secretary SK Nair is the convenor.
So who on earth is the other member? Is it the BCCI president himself? Reminds me of the Onnu indha irukku, innonnu yenga. Innoru dhaan anne idhu joke from Karakaattakaran.
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The chairman of the panel is BCCI president Ranbir Singh Mahindra. So he is the fifth member.
And its difficult to say that BCCI has set up this committee due to criticism. They have always been saying (before the criticism started) that they are going to form a commitee, and there is no evidence that they speeded it up due to media pressures.
And in my opinion, so far BCCI has NOT goofed up on the whole coach thing. There are lots of names, and opinions floating around. Most of them rumours. And most of the criticism of BCCI in this matter has been unfounded. So far, from what I gathered, they took inputs from Wright, captain. Took in applications, formed the commitee. And it still seems to be on track in terms of time.
To me, most of the criticism seems to have come from the fact that BCCI is NOT heeding to media advice in this matter, which is probably not the worst thing to do in such circumstances. Given that most of the media has more vested interests than BCCI !
And most of the criticism, especially that on rediff (which is still one of the more reliable source of Indian cricket news) has been generated by an apparent lack of sufficient official communication from BCCI. BCCI being what we know they are, how much can we expect from them ! Transparency is not their cup of tea :-) I would anyway be happy if they get a good coach. Someone whom the players are comfortable with, and who is not an Indian, whatever be his name. Because, after all, how many of us would have agreed with the choice of Wright, going just by the name !
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worma (6 May 2005, 7:12:00 pm)
Avinash, a commitee is needed to take decision which cannot and should not be taken by an individual. Especially in an open press atmosphere as in India. So instead of commitee, who would be the one person to decide ? And I'm sure all of us can already find faults with that one person :-)
So who should be in the commitee...umm ideally this process should also be well defined. Some state representatives, who head similar process in their region, then elect a representative etc. But since that does not happen here (I think something similar exists in Aus), so this way out. Captain should definitely be 'consulted' (remember how important captain and vice captain were in Wright's selection despite not being part of any committee !). So how much would they be, I dont know, but as I said, for me anyone whom they are comfortable with should be chosen.
I hope the committee members like Shastri, Dalmiya and Gavaskar would be sensible enough to take them into confidence. But surely this is better than Mahendra, Dalmiya etc deciding by 'asking' captain. Atleast Gavaskar, Shastri would bring in more sensible votes in the committee ! They are people who have knowledge of cricket systems in the world, decent sense of judgment (I know we all can criticise shastri, and anyone else also in that position) and fairly independent points of view. In this situation they wont have any personal agenda (since there is no Indian contender for the position...hopefully!)
By worma (6 May 2005, 11:41:00 pm)
But Avinash, why have so much faith in the selection committee ? Most of the time they are equally poor in judgment as the BCCI. And by the way, that committee is also kind of nominated people. Even Gavaskar, Shastri can be in that committee. In fact people like Chandu Borde and Syed Kirmani are much further removed from the realities of modern cricket (and cricket coaching) than Gavaskar, Shastri.
And by the way, these people are not commentators ! I mean not just commentators, and you know that. Choosing cricket administrators from intelligent, well meaning past cricketers is the most workable system in all countries. There is a certain amount of chance involved, but thats how it is !
By the way, Dean Jones is also a commentator :-)
By worma (7 May 2005, 9:52:00 pm)
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