Crying out for some respect
Saad Bin Jung, writing in the Asian Age , condemns the treatment meted out to former cricketers who had come to watch the first ODI between India and Australia in Bangalore.
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
Saad Bin Jung, writing in the Asian Age, condemns the treatment meted out to former cricketers who had come to watch the first ODI between India and Australia in Bangalore.
The secretary of the Karnataka State Cricket Association is a former Test player with most members of the organising team having played some form of cricket or the other. Yet when I arrived in the stadium I saw two former Test players Syed Abid Ali and the greatest off-spinner that India has produced, EAS Prasanna without a place to sit.
Not a single person was bothered if they had family with them.
No one cared for their comfort. Does an international game give the organisers so much self importance that they forget their basic etiquettes to senior players? This disrespect and abuse of our senior cricketers has to stop. After all it is our seniors who carry the wisdom of cricket with them, irrespective of whether they are with the BCCI or the Indian Cricket League.
Ashok Ganguly is an editorial assistant at Cricinfo