On why silence is golden

By John Cheeran
Though Indian cricket's seat of power is now in Mumbai, and the President of the BCCI is Maratha leader Sharad Pawar, the Indian board itself has ignored the debate between Manjrekar and Tendulkar.
Apparently the board cannot and should not take sides in what should be at its best a healthy argument. But there is an interesting angle to the whole issue out there.
The BCCI functionaries have not taken the side in this discourse but its employees have taken. John Gloster, physio to Indian team has defended Sachin Tendulkar by saying that the batting icon's decisions to stay away from the game as and when he thought it fit is the right step.
Even former physio Andrew Leipus voiced his support for Tendulkar.
But why Kiran More, the chairman of the national selection committee has not supported Tendulkar?
Had More said that Tendulkar is free too pick and choose his matches, citing fitness, it would have taken the sting out of Manjrekar's analysis. Yes, the committee headed by More brought back Tendulkar into the Indian team,for the Colombo trip with open arms. But in the aftermath of the Manjrekar bombshell, More has kept his silence.
Does the silence means More was unhappy with India's cricketing icon on fitness matters?
But may be as a selector, More would have found Tendulkar's decision to take a break from the game to fix his fitness convenient to throw youngsters into the squad and hold his experiments with the youth.
It was a win-win situation for the Indian team management that includes skipper Rahul Dravid and Greg Chappell. Dravid himself has faced the music for daring to be different. Dravid, while leading the side in Pakistan in the absence of a malingering Sourav Ganguly, was excoriated by journalists from Mumbai and Kolkata for daring to declare the Indian innings in Multan for the simple reason that skipper's move denied Tendulkar another double century.
It is quite natural that Dravid has not rushed in to sing Tendulkar's praise now.
It should also be remembered that Tendulkar supported Ganguly when the Snooty Lord was shown the exit from the Indian dressing room.
Silence, after all, is golden when it suits you.!