BCCI right to spurn Asian Games

Reaction to the BCCI’s decision to not send a cricket team to the Asian Games as been one of almost universal condemnation. But in the Guardian Dileep Premachandran defends the board, saying it is right to shun the Games.

Instead of whipping up mass hysteria, the media should be asking the question: does cricket belong on the Olympic or Asian Games stage? Or will it be an imposter, as football and tennis are? An Olympic medal should be the pinnacle of your sport. If it's not, you really don't have any business being there. You can melt all the Golden League ingots in the world, and they still wouldn't mean half as much as the gold medals that Usain Bolt won in such thrilling fashion at the Bird's Nest in Beijing.