Bowling Changes for Sydney (with poll)

[LukeParkerno1]

No Bird thank goodness

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Yeah the politics in Indian cricket is pretty amazing (think as petty as the Victorian/NSW pariochalism on here), so it's ignorant for people to assume uniformity across the board. I remember the Ganguly family was having some stoush with a bigwig high up in one of the state cricket boards ahead of an Indian-Australian test at the state's venue, so come the days before the test the pitch is looking green as anything you might see in early April in county cricket. More words in the media as Ganguly tries to get some traction from his backers in the BCCI, but whoever this guy was he must've had some clout as come match day the pitch is still green and Ganguly pulls out of the test citing injury.

I read John Wright's book a while ago about his time as Indian coach, apparently selection meetings contained a representative from every cricket board in the land (around 15-20 IIRC) who'd sit around in a circle and discuss the makeup of the squad. When it came to the final few spots, often it would literally come down to who owes who a favour or who got their way with one of the boys from their home state last time.

Funny place India - you could imagine those selection committees basically being like a thread on bigfooty about the next test squad, though I think they've streamlined the process quite a lot in recent years (IIRC Dhoni was a big factor in pushing for this) cutting out room for nepotism etc.

It's fascinating, leaves Aus cricket politics floundering in its wake. Always worth reading about!

 

[Hellgood]

It's fascinating, leaves Aus cricket politics floundering in its wake. Always worth reading about!

If you enjoyed that, you'll probably be interested in reading up on Jagmohan Dalmiya who was the BCCI supremo that on a global scale aggressively pushed for the recentralisation of the games finances from the traditional base of England (and by extension Australia) and locally broke down the monopoly that a state owned broadcaster had over the TV rights. Naturally this paved the way for huge sums of money to flow into the Indian game.

Very controversial figure at both home and abroad, but he was exceptionally powerful and very good at getting what he wanted.

http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/Av...rise-fall-and-return-of-Jagmohan-Dalmiya.html

http://www.firstpost.com/firstcrick...stralia-and-england-down-to-size-2440770.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmohan_Dalmiya

 

[Doodlesweaver]

If you enjoyed that, you'll probably be interested in reading up on Jagmohan Dalmiya who was the BCCI supremo that on a global scale aggressively pushed for the recentralisation of the games finances from the traditional base of England (and by extension Australia) and locally broke down the monopoly that a state owned broadcaster had over the TV rights. Naturally this paved the way for huge sums of money to flow into the Indian game.

Very controversial figure at both home and abroad, but he was exceptionally powerful and very good at getting what he wanted.

http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/Av...rise-fall-and-return-of-Jagmohan-Dalmiya.html

http://www.firstpost.com/firstcrick...stralia-and-england-down-to-size-2440770.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmohan_Dalmiya

Cheers, I'll have a look at that in a slow moment at work.