BCCI is a four-letter word.

By John Cheeran
The BCCI is a four-letter word.
Hardly anything can they do right. On any given day you can fill newspaper columns by launching an attack on the Indian cricket board and invite accolades for your concern for sport.
The BCCI was under fire last week. The cricket board had let Duleep Trophy contests take place while coach Greg Chappell was putting the Indian team members through their paces. In an ideal situation, the theory goes that, the big guns of Indian cricket should boom in the domestic cricket contests. I agree.
But what happens when stars stay away from zonal competitions such as Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy? Their places in the Zonal teams are taken up by those youngsters who might, one day, become the stardust themselves. Is the prevailing arrangement in itself such a bad idea? I don’t think so.
But the problem is that men wiser than me think otherwise. The BCCI was hauled over the coals for ignoring domestic cricket. The save Indian cricket theory wants the certainties of the current side leave no space for others to grow.
But then Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman and other Indian discards played in the Duleep Trophy. I believe Sachin Tendulkar played in the challenger series. Things are not that bad. Or are they?
There are two innings in a Test match. There are two sides to every argument. Leave the space always for the other.
Over.