How has Pawar done?

The Indian board is scheduled to hold its Annual General Body meeting in the next few days and elections will be held to pick new office bearers. Sharad Pawar ends his term as the BCCI president and the Mid-Day's Clayton Murzello reviews his three years at Indian cricket's top post.

It appears that the game is better run now than it was when Jagmohan Dalmiya called the shots. There are certainly more people working in the cricket board than in 2004. The executive secretary role has made way for a Chief Administrative Officer. There's a Media Relations Officer, Games Development Officer and a person in charge of logistics at the Wankhede Stadium's Cricket Centre, a heavenly structure as compared to the office at Brabourne Stadium's North Stand. So, in terms of personnel, the Board has stepped it up. There's no Indian on the list of elite umpires and the fact that Australian Simon Taufel just grabbed his fifth Best Umpire award from the ICC in as many years proves that cricket umpiring is in trouble. The BCCI, meanwhile, have tied up with Cricket Australia who send their experts to train Indian umpires...

... The BCCI is blockading the spreading of the game through a medium which is fast increasing making other forms of journalism look redundant. By the way, the BCCI has yet to launch its website unbelievable. Even Bangladesh, the latest entrant to the Test fold has one. A politician in today's world surely understands the value of the internet and not having a website is absurd.