Delhi's murky politics

Delhi cricket is a world where even those who play well have had to resort to backdoor methods of appeasing those whose approval is a must, writes Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times.

You need not always be a powerful businessman, a politician, a bureaucrat or a cop to push your child into the team, or resort to bribery to have your son play for the state team; you can also get your way by hiring goons to threaten those in power. In this world, nothing is a secret. Every newspaper has, from time to time, published reports of how corrupt the DDCA edifice is. But this has not stopped the next selection having a large quota for players who have nothing but their parents' CVs to recommend them.