Privatisation Of BCCI ??

Cricket is a religion in India and private players never hesitate to spend huge cash on this and earn the dividends. Anil Amabani's Reliance communications bagged the rights to be the global sponsor of world cup.The deal size is said to be huge amount of 103 Millions USD.Mr. Ambani invested this amount despite bad performance of Indian cricket team in this years world cup. Is he trying to cash on past performance ? One world cup in last 27 years and BCCI is still boasting about it.

BCCI(Some say, Board of Corrupt Cricketers of India) is among the richest sports organizations by far.The global media rights for international cricket to be held in India between March 2006 and March 2010 were awarded to production house Nimbus for a mind-boggling sum of 612 Million USD. Official Kit sponsor Nike shelled out 43 Million USD Some reports say BCCI will get another Rs 2,000 crore ($450 million) from the sale of other rights, including hotel, travel and ground sponsorship etc. List of revenue earning medium continues. BCCI is controlled by government for all the needs.

It would not be wise to say that Mr. Sharad Pawar, a person from political background knows more cricket than Mr. Sunil Gavaskar. Mr Laloo prasad yadav is controlling state cricket board because he is an ardent fan of cricket. There is long list of political clout which controls this game in India. Past record says that it is always hard to find coach, physio, bowling coach and manager for cricket team but whenever we need BCCI president there is long list of available people and that too with political background.

Do they have interest in cricket or are keen for the huge revenues this game generates? Are they heading these organizations because of exposure they are getting or the fame they get? Who is accountable for the finances of this organization? Is control of politicians over sports, prime reason of poor state of sports in our country?

In other Asian countries, china and Japan for example, things are better. Sporting authorities are controlled by the private players and they are managed professionally. Better management of sporting authorities is clear by China's performance in 2004 summer games, which was enough to beat India's total tally of medals in Olympics till now. China won 63 medals which included 32 gold, 17 silver and 14 bronze medals. If professionally managed authorities in other countries can yield better results, India can also do so. We have few of the professionally well managed companies.

Hence, alternative solution to all problems can be privatization of BCCI.I am sure this should help all Indians to realize dream and history of 1983 cup would repeat soon.