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June 26, 2007
Recent posts on AOL
- Wishlist for the 2011 World Cup.
- In such a rapid set of one-dayers (India in Ireland), what the Indian team needs to do is to get the momentum going by winning the first 2-3 games.
- South Africa wants Australia to give up its monopoly over hosting Boxing Day and New Year's Day tests. This was always going to happen at some point of time or the other. What should the BCCI do?
Labels: 2011, 2011 world cup, aol, australia, bcci, guest blogger, india, scheduling, south africa, world cup
Thus spake Jagadish @ 6:14 pm | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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June 01, 2007
The BCCI's masterful planning
What do you call a board that ensures its cricketers take on Australia in Australia totally unprepared? Inept? Greedy? Incompetent?
Labels: aol, bcci, guest blogger, india
Thus spake Jagadish @ 8:48 pm | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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May 30, 2007
BCCI bashing
It is most certainly not a deliberate theme, but 3 out of our last 4 posts on AOL's Cricket Blogs have targetted the BCCI.
- Opening conundrums for India
- Test cricket again! (no BCCI bashing here)
- After Kumble who?
- Afro-Asia Cup's credibility in serious doubt
The post about the Afro-Asia Cup's credibility said
While Sourav Ganguly's last minute inclusion would go a fair distance in ensuring that Sachin Tendulkar's absence isn't felt too much, imagine if Dhoni, Jayawardene, Sehwag, Yuvraj and Jayasuriya too suffered some mysteriously well-timed injuries and pulled out of the tournament. Would Nimbus, the TV rights holders, still go ahead with their plans? Would advertisers put in money into such a tournament, without any star-cast? Even if they did so this year, I'd say next year's tournament would be highly unlikely.This is almost exactly what has happened. Nimbus has announced that it won't be producing or telecasting the tournament because of so many star players withdrawing for reasons other than injury. Zee TV has also thrust a spanner in the works by scrapping the deal to telecast ODIs featuring India played in neutral venues.
Even though ESPN-Star has apparently been roped in to do the job now, it may not be too soon before we see a cartel being formed by Zee, Nimbus, ESPN-Star, TEN Sports etc. to ensure that they get good value for their money in terms of star players turning up and having to pay less for the rights since they'd need to share the rights with Prasar Bharati anyway.
Would the BCCI be able to guarantee that? Or will it ask them all to go take a hike and instead go back to IS Bindra's pet project - a BCCI TV channel?
Labels: aol, bcci, guest blogger, india
Thus spake Jagadish @ 11:58 pm | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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May 18, 2007
Cricket 24x7 on AOL India
AOL India launched a few weeks ago. We're proud to announce that Cricket 24x7 will be contributing to the Cricket blogs section on the site.
A couple of our posts are live: Misplaced priorities, as usual, for the BCCI and Is the Bangladesh tour just a pit stop?
Labels: aol, bangladesh, bcci, guest blogger, india
Thus spake Jagadish @ 12:32 pm | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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