Will Dhoni stand up to the BCCI?
MS Dhoni's tenure as India captain is now facing its first major challenge
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
MS Dhoni's tenure as India captain is now facing its first major challenge. The Mumbai Mirror's Deepak Narayanan writes that his legacy could be defined by whether he is proactive enough to stand up to the BCCI and the inhuman schedules they are imposing on the Indian team.
Can, or will, Dhoni fight the fight for more logical schedules? The board’s stance on the too-much-cricket issue has been clear: Players can take a break whenever they please, board officials have said time and again (‘except during the IPL’ is implicit, even if the words are never spoken aloud publicly). The IPL’s business model is such that it hangs by the hurting tendons and strained muscles of India’s big guns: Can you imagine people tuning in to watch Rajat Bhatia versus Dhawal Kulkarni if Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar decided to give the tournament a skip? And with the BCCI itself being the biggest shareholder of the league, priorities are bound to get warped.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo