Profits and losses
Harsha Bhogle writes in the Indian Express :
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
Harsha Bhogle writes in the Indian Express:
[N]obody [in the BCCI] is taking a hard decision about television rights as well. Most people in the board are businessmen and I would be interested in knowing if they would start looking for vendors ten days before their product is to be launched.
Meanwhile, IS Bindra, an interesting man with interesting thoughts, says that, in the absence of a decision, he will team up with the six other associations staging one-day games against Sri Lanka and award their own rights because they are losing too much money.
I hope that is an ultimatum, an attempt to precipitate a solution (and not a deeper plan!) for otherwise the players could well turn around and say that if the board makes a loss, or a smaller profit, they lose too. Can they then say that they will award their own rights since it is their talent that brings in the money in the first place?
When small decisions are glossed over, for whatever reason, they become major problems. And Indian cricket has major problems. In my first job, if I had taken 14 months to shortlist names for an ad film, I would have been sacked. Indeed, things would not have been allowed to go that far. In Indian cricket they have but I see the same faces around!
Indeed. But companies are accountable to their shareholders. Who is the BCCI accountable to?