Administration partly to blame for corruption
20-May-2013
In the Indian Express, the editorial column argues about how the lack of adequate response from the BCCI is as much a failing to Indian cricket as the exploits of the infamous Rajasthan trio. The board has simply not been proactive in riddling out corruption in cricket, and has chosen to largely be reactive when it comes to identifying the nefarious parties involved and how to deal with them. There is no reason why the BCCI, the most powerful board in cricket, can not do more to stamp out such activity, and lead the way to a recovery from these dark times.
The IPL's problem -- and the BCCI's too, by implication, as the two entities are so deeply entwined -- is that its administrators lack credibility when they aver they are seized of the matter. Their reassurances that action will be taken on the spot-fixing charges strike a feeble chord, not because they are not expected to take stern action against the offending threesome
In the Firstpost, G Pramod Kumar raises questions on the role of the police in the current investigations against the three cricketers. He says that the leaks appearing in the media which have been attributed to the police seem to focus on sleaze rather than real investigation and it is hardly of any legal consequence.