Sports : life magnified

Okay the Indian Cricket board is a circus. There are no two ways about it. If years of neglecting domestic cricket made me feel dismayed earlier - the current fiasco puts what a pathetic mess the Indian board is more on my face than ever before.

It is clear Dalmiya backs Ganguly. He does not get sacked. It is also clear Chappell being sacked would mean financial loss to the board (he is not foolish enough to sign the coach’s contract without financial security). So what do they do? They retain both people who have serious differences to try and put the Indian team forward. How can they sort the problems of the team when they cannot sort their own problem and divide the team rather than unite them? Why would the board care. The Dalmiya faction wants to stay at the helm while the Pawar faction is tyring to achieve the same objective.

Harbhajan Singh is being asked to summon before the Punjab Cricket Association. I doubt if the Punjab Cricket Associaiton is not opposed to the Dalmiya faction.

On a more humorous note from across the border - Inzamam who refused to go for the super series earlier sighting it would effect his preparation for the series vs England (actual reason being he did not want to be 12th man”), now says he will play in the match for his country after Tendulkar has opted out.