I was quite amused by an article I saw in yesterday's print edition of The Indian Express. It quoted a BCCI official who said that the board has determined that the England Test series disaster was a result of too much time being spent by the players with their wives and girlfriends and that in the future such interaction would need to be severely curtailed.
There has obviously been a lot of noise in India about the sorry capitulation of the team, and it is necessary to nail a person for the disaster or at the very least find a reason that is plausible, and that keeps all the important officials free of blame so they may continue unhindered in their cosy positions.
So the theory behind the disaster is slowly emerging. Duncan Fletcher and his support staff are the primary villains, and swift action has been taken to clip Fletcher's wings, and make his position untenable and humiliating. The other major reason is the wives and girlfriend angle. Sounds very plausible, and (even better) it is juicy as hell! Whether a clear causal relationship can be established between cause and effect is irrelevant. Causes have been identified and swift action taken. The patient has cancer and is running low grade fever. We believe the fever is the cause of the cancer. Let us give the patient a paracetamol tablet every 6 hours, and the cancer should clear up in a few days. Case closed.
I am really in awe of our brilliant cricket administrators.
There has obviously been a lot of noise in India about the sorry capitulation of the team, and it is necessary to nail a person for the disaster or at the very least find a reason that is plausible, and that keeps all the important officials free of blame so they may continue unhindered in their cosy positions.
So the theory behind the disaster is slowly emerging. Duncan Fletcher and his support staff are the primary villains, and swift action has been taken to clip Fletcher's wings, and make his position untenable and humiliating. The other major reason is the wives and girlfriend angle. Sounds very plausible, and (even better) it is juicy as hell! Whether a clear causal relationship can be established between cause and effect is irrelevant. Causes have been identified and swift action taken. The patient has cancer and is running low grade fever. We believe the fever is the cause of the cancer. Let us give the patient a paracetamol tablet every 6 hours, and the cancer should clear up in a few days. Case closed.
I am really in awe of our brilliant cricket administrators.
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