The Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken and his team of officials appear to have read the pulse of the sports fraternity and the people at large right in proposing the tabling of the National Sports Development Bill in Parliament but faltered significantly in gauging the mood of law makers, falling at the first step by being unable to impress the Union Cabinet.
The page in Prabhat Khabar where this article (translated of course) appeared
You may shut your ears to the raging debate on corruption in the country but there is no escape from the argument over the International Cricket Council’s recent decision to implement a watered down version of the Decision Review System in all forms of international cricket and over how the Board of Control for Cricket in India has called the shots in getting ICC to drop ball tracking technology (Hawk Eye) from the list of aids for TV umpires.
And I paused to think if anybody has been able to stop the march of time or the advent of technology. We have come a long way from using valve radios to transistors to digital radio; from using typewriters to computers; from telephones to mobile phones; from cars that guzzled fuel to machines that are fuel efficient. Yes, technology touches our lives in every which way possible and it is natural that it makes its presence felt in cricket too – not just with making the TV viewing experience a memorable one but also in ensuring that umpires make the right decisions.
There is no escaping IPL. Believe me you, I have looked around for another subject to write about and failed. Even if I have largely ignored the cricket in IPL in anticipation of the ICC World Twenty20 that begins in the West Indies this week, there has been no escaping the drama featuring its Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi.
Or, for that matter, his bag of tricks. Read more »
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