World Cup winners deserve more than to party alone
The cricketers who won India's first World Cup in 1983 should be lauded not ignored by the BCCI, writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
The cricketers who won India's first World Cup in 1983 should be lauded not ignored by the BCCI, writes Dileep Premachandran in the Guardian.
As things stand, the month of June, monsoon time in the south, will witness four six-a-side games featuring the squad of 1983. Soon after that, there will be a dinner in Dubai, following which the Long Room at Lord's will host the big bash on the 25th. "Let them do whatever they're doing," said Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI's chief administrative officer. "We haven't got any invitation from them or any intimation."
This, mind you, is the same board that spared no expense in arranging ticker-tape parades and handing out Goodyear-blimp-sized cheques after India's triumphs in the T20 and Under-19 World Cups, insignificant baubles next to a trophy lifted by the likes of Clive Lloyd, Allan Border, Imran, Steve Waugh and a certain Kapil Dev Nikhanj.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo