The BCCI's unprofessional hire-and-fire policy

Robin Singh and Venkatesh Prasad came to know through the media that their stint as fielding and bowling coach of the Indian team was over. "Is it too much to ask that the BCCI follow basic principles of human decency while carrying out that function [sacking their employees]?" asks Prem Panicker writes in his blog Smoke Signals. He also talks about a conversation with Robin Singh in 2003, when Robin was looking for a coaching job with the US cricket association.

He had, Robin said, been coaching [India] U-19 on someone’s say-so. A board official called him up and told him he had the job; he did it. Through that period, he had no formal meeting with anyone in the board, no contract spelling out his duties, no idea who if anyone he was supposed to report to, and certainly no idea what he was going to be paid and when.

And when it was all over, Robin waited. “I thought someone would call, tell me if they were satisfied or not, tell me what I was supposed to do next. No one called — how long am I supposed to wait?” And so he was in the US, shopping for jobs.