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Controversy as cricket electors change votes | Columnists | BDlive
Controversy as cricket electors change votes | Columnists | BDlive
Controversy as cricket electors change votes | Columnists | BDliveThe one area the BCCI has not been able to control is the vote of the game’s most important stakeholders — the players. Up until now, that is.
Playing conditions, proposed law changes and everything else to do with what happens on the field is debated by the ICC’s cricket committee, on which the players have two representatives. They are Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and the president of the Federation of International Cricketers Associations, former Australia spinner Tim May.
Those men were elected by the players from around the world through the votes of their Test captains.
The BCCI recently put Laxman Sivaramakrishnan up as a candidate to stand against May. Nine Test caps and 16 one-day internationals suggest there is nothing wrong with the man’s credentials as a cricketer. Except that he is employed by the Chennai Super Kings, the Indian Premier League franchise owned by the BCCI’s president, N Srinivasan.
The players of the world, judging by their votes, were unimpressed. When the confidential votes of the world’s 10 Test captains were voted, they numbered 9:1 in favour of retaining May. It was then that the BCCI started work.
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