The only boards that will benefit from an Asian bloc split will be the ECB, so that they can still dream about ruling the game like they did or so many years.
Rubbish. Post-colonial bluster, the same bull**** Jagmohan Dalmiya, Lalit Modi and the likes have been coming-out with for the last decade.
Evidence?
Oh cut this crap about "equal powersharing" and stuff. That is valid had the countries were generating an equal amount of interest and wealth into the game. But it isnt so, and India is the powerhub now, so it is only logical that they run the show.
Quoted from Mike Selvey's article in the Guardian :
Not really. The most honourable wealthy types have always been the types who look to use their wealth for the greater good, to share it and not to attempt to gain power via it.
I did that where? I am one of the least anti-BCCI people around, TBH, but there's no denying they're appalling in many ways. Likewise, the assumption that the UK essentially ruling the game, as they did for a century, was all bad is a complete myth, there were some benefits to it.
Both are utterly cringeworthy, and neither is worthy of any more credit than the other.
Where have I said otherwise to any of this? You seem to be tacking stuff other people have said onto me. The IPL would've been perfectly possible whether India was the dominant power in cricket or not, and of course there have been many benefits to the IPL as well as one or two drawbacks (though these relate to long-term not short-term - I for one have never complained about disruption to the FTP).
You are vying for Utopia, which will never come. And people are not noble, lest the BCCI who have proved to be complete suckers for money and power. So don't ever expect it to happen. For long India has been at the receiving end of everything in cricket, whether it be schedules (how often did Eng and Aus tour them prior to 95, as compared to now), and as well results. Now that they are shedding off the last remnants of colonial past, they want to assert themselves, and assert they will. Now, India has suddenly become the hotspot for International cricketers, and earlier when it used to be a hardship posting, now suddenly it has become the new tourist destination for them. UK (MCC) has run this game for so long, and they got to realise their time's over, and it's time for India to take over the mantle, for good or bad, we don't yet know.
MCC ran the game, and it was in UK isnt it?
No, in one case it one board assuming leadership over two others, and the results have not been detrimental to the remaining boards. (Like BCCI's decision to send Indian team to Pakistan for Asia Cup, despite no other Non-Asian team even thinking of touring Pakistan). There has been some bad stuff also, like the ICL, which is not within BCCI's control and though they are trying to push that into oblivion.
IPL wouldnt have bene possible had India been not dominant in the cricket world. Rather, I would say, IPL is the proof of dominance of Indian cricket. It finally showed that the criket in India has grown into such proportions that a billion-dollar project like IPL could be sustained viably without any foreign investment, atleast directly.
This is rubbish. Was reading not long ago about how much money has been coming into CA over the years - it's in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Not my opinion, Mike Selvey's of The Guardian Newspaper. Link given above.
He meant Zimbabwean dollars.
Having a look at the wiki, it says they made 120 mil on '07 but that was higher then usual because of the Ashes and WC. The book I read published this year said they were sitting on a very healthy war chest so I really wouldn't trust an English journos passing word on it. Obviously they don't come close to India with 700mil TV deals and all the money they made from the IPL. However it could all fall apart with the economy, I suppose the BCCI and all the other boards would be similarly hit though.
If this is true, then Yousuf is incredibly stupid and/or lacking any morals whatsoever
The fun thing is ICL officials filed a complaint last year that MoYo joined IPL, after entering into a contract with ICL.
This is what Yousuf's personal agent has to say:
Good signing and feathers the nest for Hick nicely before leaving the game.
