Impropriety is nothing new in Indian cricket
In the Times of India, Ashok Malik says that impropriety is so central to India's cricket business that MS Dhoni's possible conflict of interest may not be the worst offence
06-Jun-2013
In the Economic Times, Ashok Malik says that impropriety is so central to India's cricket business that MS Dhoni's possible conflict of interest may not be the worst offence.
While the Dhoni-Rhiti nexus has made news, on the evidence available, the Indian captain is guilty of impropriety rather than proven wrongdoing. There have been more egregious cases that have been ignored. In 2006, Kiran More's cricket school in Baroda became the first Indian client/partner of the Australian International Sports Academy, a private enterprise that Greg Chappell was affiliated to and that ran a programme called The Chappell Way.
At close to . 1 lakh each, aspiring Indian cricketers could travel to Australia for a two-week regimen at The Chappell Way. The first batch of trainees to leave India was from More's academy.
In 2006, Chappell was Indian cricket coach. More was chairman of the selection panel, and notorious for rubber-stamping Chappell's decisions and surrendering authority to him.
The BCCI meeting in Chennai was an example of how the ethos of Indian cricket continues to be damaged by its administrators, writes Makarand Waingankar in the Hindu
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