NCA, a finishing school
Cricketers struggling with form must have a door to knock on, writes Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
Cricketers struggling with form must have a door to knock on, writes Harsha Bhogle in the Indian Express
If the BCCI can create franchises for its Twenty20 competition, why can’t it do the same with the Ranji Trophy teams? A market driven operation, more often than not, creates a meritocracy; the good get rewarded better and they are not at the mercy of insensitive associations that do not need to be good to be rich. There are terrible stories of players being promised one thing and delivered another floating around.
Meanwhile Dileep Premachandran writes in the Guardian that the breeding-grounds of Indian cricket have moved from the cities to the country, where power-hitting is put before technique.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo