The curious case of the BCCI Annual Report
Venkat Ananth, writing for Yahoo Cricket , tries to make sense of the BCCI's mysterious expenditure on three specialised academies, and concludes it's a difficult task
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Venkat Ananth, writing for Yahoo Cricket, tries to make sense of the BCCI's mysterious expenditure on three specialised academies, and concludes it's a difficult task. To view the report, click here.
At first, one had the sense that these were phantom academies since the BCCI have fallen shy of promoting them adequately. I was surprised to learn they actually exist and are functioning. But keeping to the ways of the current BCCI regime, the representatives of the academies refused to field any questions about their programs, the cricketers trained by them, or even the sort of facilities they had - ostensibly because they didn't want any negative publicity for the employment created for them by the Board.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo