Why N Srinivasan doesn't favour big changes in cricket
BCCI president N Srinivasan may be rather adventurous in his dealings for his cement business, but when it comes to cricket, he prefers to stick to the tried and tested, find Sriram Srinivasan and Karthik Subbaraman in Economic Times .
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
BCCI president N Srinivasan may be rather adventurous in his dealings for his cement business, but when it comes to cricket, he prefers to stick to the tried and tested, find Sriram Srinivasan and Karthik Subbaraman in Economic Times.
The board is all for continuing the traditional relationship with the International Cricket Council, one of the reasons why the Woolf report recommending independent governance for the ICC was rejected. "The fundamental recommendation [on restructuring the board] is something we cannot accept," he says. That could mean a possible loss of clout for India. "They want to change the management. After all, the ICC is funded by these full members." says he. "This is not a listed company. You have to look at it differently."
Such stances have contributed to the already negative perception about the board. In Srinivasan's view, there was no need to put the blame on BCCI's attitude. "We don't go public, like sometimes [Haroon] Lorgat [the ICC chief executive] has done," says Srinivasan, in a rare moment of on-the-record candour. "I don't respond. We don't respond to that. Because we don't want it to be seen that publicly we are having a [difference of opinion]."
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo