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16 teams played Cricket World Cup 2007
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and in 2023, only 10 teams playing Cricket World Cup
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6 lesser teams
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and if we compare this to FIFA World Cup
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then 32 teams played in 2006 FIFA World Cup
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and 48 teams are going to play in 2026 FIFA World Cup
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16 teams more
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This is an evident growth of sports football
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then why is this happening to Cricket?
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Why is Cricket Shrinking?
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and when i started reading about it.
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i found out
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the country responsible for cricket's shrinking and death
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is the country which loves cricket the most
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India
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Cricket is like a religion in India, isn't it?
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It certainly is.
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Commentator: and that's out...yes! it's all over this time.
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Commentator: Kapil Dev will receive the trophy...
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Commentator: Lords goes wild!
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Commentator: Last ball of the Innings..
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and it's six sixes in an over..
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Commentator: In the air and sreesanth takes it..India Win
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Commentator: First man on the planet to reach 200
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Sachin Tendulkar
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Commentator: He lift it up
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that is a shot of an emperor.
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Commentator: Dhoni...finishes of in style...
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a magnificent strike into the crowd...
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90% of this sports viewers are indians
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and an apex cricket board take advantage of these stats,
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"BCCI"
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This immense viewership has helped BCCI to become a multi billion dollars organisation
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The humble truth here is the BCCI is the richest body today today..
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in thw world of cricket.
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across the globe
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and I think it is purely because of the success of the IPL
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There are 74 games now in the IPL
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and each one is valued over 10 Million pounds for one game.
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BCCI is using this money to intimidate world cricket.
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Newscaster: The BCCI has given a green signal to a proposal,
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that will give three countries, that is India, Australia and England
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more power and more money..
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but thirty years ago, this was not the case
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30 years ago, BCCI had no money to give prize money to their world cup winning team
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30 years ago,
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Indian cricket team was one of the weakest team in world cricket
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30 years ago,
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England had total control over this game
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However, one event, one event...
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Changed Cricket's Future
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Cricket! Moved from England
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to India
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But instead of growing this game
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India used it as a money making machine
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let me tell you
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The story of
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'How India Stole and Killed Cricket'
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
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It is the day of the finals here
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atb the mecca of cricket, Lord's
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where the underdogs Indians will take on the mIghty West Indians
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25th June 1983
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The Day of the World Cup Finals
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West Indies vs India
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West Indies had won both of the last played World Cups
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and they were again in the finals to win their 3rd world cup
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and the underdogs indians were their opponents
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India was considered one of the weakest team in world cricket
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Because they had won only one match in previous two world cups
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and too against a weak team like East Africa
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India's first group match was against the defending world champions West Indies
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Know what the bookmakers had given the odds of India winning this match.
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66-1...Can you believe that?
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But this team was different, passionate.
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India won this match against all the odds.
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not only this match
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But India made history by winning most of their matches in group stage.
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and after defeating host country England, India reached finals.
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Entire world was in shock.
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Especially Indians
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Every Indian wanted to watch the finals on 25th June.
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Everyone wanted tickets for finals
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2 days before finals
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That times BCCI President NKP Salve got a call from a respected Indian Minister
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Minister: Mr. Salve..Congratulations! India reached finals!
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NKP Salve: Thank You! Say, what can I do for you?
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Minister: Wanted to watch winning in the finals, but can't get tickets.
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Minister: It would have been great If I had got two tickets for the finals
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NKP Salve: Sure sir! Our team is in the finals.
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NKP Salve: If we don't get extra tickets then who will?
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After the call Salve went to the English Organizers to ask for extra tickets.
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NKP Salve: Can I get two extra tickets for finals please?
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But do you what he was told
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English Organizer: I beg your pardon
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we already have given you your tickets. we can't provide you more tickets.
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BCCI President wasn't given two extra tickets
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Just Imagine..what an insult this was
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But Salve Couldn't do anything
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English men had control over this game
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They invented the game
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They wrote the rules of the game, wrote the constitution
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Spread this game in their colonies
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natives too showed interest in this game
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because the sport was competitive
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English created world cup to grow this game
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When 1975's world cup performed better in terms of finance
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England hosted 1979's world cup after 4 years
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and again they hosted the World Cup in 1983
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Only England would host the World Cup
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Because they were the one who could host these world cups.
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but by hosting these world cups
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they would showcase their power all over the world
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Cricket was the property of British
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Mr. Salve knew this
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he thought in his mind
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"If India beats West Indies in Finals,
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then India will host next World Cup"
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"We will show these britishers that we can host the world cup too"
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But was it easy to win the finals?
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Even Indian Team couldn't believe they would make this far
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Before this world Cup
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Wisden Sports magazine's Chief editor David Frith had famously written in his article
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A team like India should not play in this tournament if they have not improved.
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and if a team like India wins,
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"I will eat my words"
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and guess what?
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India created history on 25th June 1983 by defeating the mighty west Indies at Lords
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They won the world cup
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the entire world was in shock
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and David frith kept his promise
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He literally ate his words
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What a man!
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This historic win gave NKP salve the confidence he needed\
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Now was the time to steal the British's own game
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Initially, Salve befriended Srilanka and Pakistan Cricket Boards
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They made Asian cricket Committee, on which ICC had no control over
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in 1984, they arranged a tournament between asian teams, named ASIA CUP
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This was Salve's way of telling Britishers that we can host the tournaments too.
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But BCCI had no money to host a World Cup
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At first, Salve asked Pakistan Cricket Board, "We should host next world cup together"
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Then Salve contacted Mr. Ambani with the help Indira Gandhi
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and Mr. Ambani got ready to host the World Cup
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and when the issue of money was solved
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Mr. Salve proposed his proposal on next ICC Meeting
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NKP Salve: I propose India and Pakistan should host the next world cup
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English Cricket Board got angry after listening to this
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ECB: What! is this a joke?
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ECB: Do you even know how to host a world cup?
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ECB: You need infrastructure, you need money, you need experience
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Do you even have guarantee money?
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Let me tell you
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There was no rule before this that a new nation will host a world cup after every 4 years
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Everyone knew, that England will host the world cups
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Because they created the world cup
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But NKP Salve proposed Rotational Policy
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NKP Salve: Actually I propose rotational policy
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NKP Salve: According to this policy a news nation will host a world cup after every 4 years
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After listening that even Australia and NewZeland started agreeing
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And when voting happened
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then India and Pakistan got the hosting of 1987's world cup
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Two tickets
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NKP Salve didn't get the two tickets in 1983
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and promised himself that India will host the next world cup
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and he kept his promise
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India and Pakistan hosted 1987's World CUP with gusto
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It was a success
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But BCCI didn't make any money
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30 years ago, BCCI had no money
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look at this salary sheet
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Even after 83 world cup
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Indian team players would get 200 rs per day allowance and 1500 rs per match fees
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then how BCCI got billions of dollars in just 30 years?
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turns out
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They got a golden goose in 1991
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Newscaster: Historic occasion in South African Sports
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Newscaster: South African cricket is returning to official international cricket after 21 years.
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South African cricket team was returning to international cricket after 21 years.
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and they going to play their first three match oneday series against India
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Before this series
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South African Sports Administrator called BCCI's Administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya and asked
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Mr. Dalmiya's eyes lit up after hearing this
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BCCI sold broadcast rights of that series to a
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South African state owned television channel for 200k dollars
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Just Imagine
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Few years ago, BCCI had no money to provide match fees to their players
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and they had this golden goose
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Television rights
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and when on that same year, Ex PM Mr. Singh opened India's market with Globalization
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Foreign companies investing in India
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New money started floating into India
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at the same time, these foreign companies wanted to market their products in India
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And nothing was watched more than cricket In India at this time
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***crowd shouting cricket
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Actor: Watch! Watch! Watch more Cricket!
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Because of satellite television, cricket was now seen even in small villages of India.
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It was great for these companies and BCCI.
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In 1993, India sold broadcast rights of England's tour of India
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to a broadcasting company TWI for 6,00,000$
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On that same year
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TWI bought Hero Cup's rights from BCCI for 5,50,000$
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Doordarshan which once would charge BCCI 5 lakh rupees to show one match on their channel
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They gave 54 Million dollars to BCCI for 5 years of Broadcast rights
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In no time, BCCI became the richest cricket board in the world
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However, things change after you get rich
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Remember, how NKP Salve stole 1987's world cup from England to take revenge of his humiliation
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and it was deicided, according to rotational policy England will host 1996's World Cup
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But in 96, a broadcaster named Mark Mascarhanes made an offer to BCCI
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If India hosts this world cup
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Then I can give you 14 Million $ for broadcasting
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BCCI liked this offer
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BCCI literally offered more guarantee money than England to associate teams
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and got the Hosting of 1996's World Cup
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Easy-peasy
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No Morals, only money
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But when in 96', Australia and West Indies refused to play their matches in Srilanka
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Then a BCCI administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya thought,
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ICC next Chairman should be an Asian
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But do you know,
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The President of MCC always became the president of ICC
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Britishers ran ICC
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But when Asian influence increased, elections started happening for ICC chairmanship
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Clyde Walcott, who was West Indies Cricket Boards Candidate
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became the first non-British chairman of ICC
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However, Walcott was loyal to English Cricket board
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In 1997, jagmohan dalmiya participated in these elections, and he won
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But How?
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Mr. Dalmiya knew a thing,
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that ICC's most of the full time members would vote for English Boards favorite candidate
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So Mr. Dalmiya used a trick
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You know, associate teams had a right place 1 vote each in these elections
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But the representatives of these associate teams had no money to be present
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in the elections being held in London.
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So Mr. Dalmiya bought tickets for these representatives of associate teams
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Booked hotels in London for them
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Even hosted a dinner party for them before elections
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and when elections happened
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These representatives of associate teams voted for Mr. Dalmiya
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and he won
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Now an Indian was the boss of World Cricket
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We feel proud after hearing this
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But you know what?
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Cricket was better controlled by Britishers
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We Indians destroyed it.
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Newscaster: Welcome back folks, this is the 2nd test match between India and South Africa
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Here at Port Elizabeth
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Port Elizabeth Test, 2001, India vs South Africa
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This was the 2nd match of 3 Match Test Series
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The match was drawn
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But when Match Referee Mike Denese Imposed Suspension on 6 Indian Players
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There was an uproar in the world of Cricket
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Players were imposed with 1 Test ban for excessive appealing
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Including Captain Sourav ganguly
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Reporter: Denese fined and Suspended 6 Indian players for their actions during the match
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Reporter: Captain Sourav Ganguly didn't escape the punishment
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But the most shocking allegation was leveled against star Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar
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Ball tampering
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Reporter: This is the vision that has ignited cricket's latest controversy
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Reporter: Sachin Tendulkar is shown running is fingers along the seam of the ball
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Reporter: On day 3 of the 2nd Test against south africa
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Reporter: It was enough to convince match referee Mike Denness
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that Tendulkar was guilty of ball tampering
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Reporter: the result, a suspended one test ban
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and lost of 75% of his match fees
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BCCI and Indian Cricket fans were angry
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"how could Mike Denness allege Sachin with such serious charges"
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"Sachin was just cleaning the ball"
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Most of the world stayed silent
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reporter: meanwhile some commentators moved quickly to defend Tendulkar
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"Not Sachin tendulkar, never, ever, ever"
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But some people chose to speak truth
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Tony Greig: Just looking at the Tendulkar footage though
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I cannot believe, I saw Ravi Shastri standing up and I heard Boycott
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I cannot believe that anyone who sees that footage could possibly
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Could possible defend him
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Normally when you clean the seam you look at it
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You gotta see where the dirt is
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I mean he is running is nail
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He was the only to swing it. Jacques Kallis does swing a ball a bit
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He didn't swing it at all, Tendulkar did
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Guilty, as guilty as can be of manipulating the ball in my view
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Reporter: and in Steve Waugh's mind a suspended sentence isn't enough
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Steve Waugh: that's more of a warning than a penalty
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unless you get a ban or some is really a penalty
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I guess, it's smear under his reputation is pretty severe but...
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if a ball is around his bat that's a contest
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That's how it should be played
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But this was BCCI, rich BCCI
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BCCI told ICC,
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These bans are wrong. We don't want Mike Denness as a referee for next match.
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ICC didn't listen to BCCI, at that time
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but South Africa cricket board did
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and India and South Africa played 3rd Test without ICC's permission
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Which ICC declared an unofficial Test
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ICC President: Well it might be recognized either in terms of
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countries records or players records
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They won't be Test Match championship points rewarded
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You know, why South Africa complied with BCCI?
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Because BCCI had threatened South Africa Cricket Board
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If you don't play the next Test, you won't get your money of the broadcast rights
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Richie Benaud: First of all India reminded South Africa that they're lose 8 million rand
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If they didn't play the match, if this wasn't the test match
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and then the Indian Government was called in
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and they talked with the South African Government
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who then issued instructions to the players
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and that's why you got that Shaun Pollock thing
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The statement, "The players were not consulted"
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This was the start of the bullying BCCI started
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BCCI does this bullying with the help of money
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and with IPL BCCI became immense
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Welcome to the Vivo Indian Premiere League
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The humble truth here is BCCI is the richest body today in the world of cricket,
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across the globe
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and I think, it is purely because of the success of the IPL
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look at this graph
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IPL is 2nd richest sports league in the world
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it's worth is more than 15 billion dollars
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but IPL is not the only T20 cricket league in the world
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Every Cricket Board has made their own cricket leagues around the world
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But BCCI don't allow their players to play in these leagues
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in all these leagues
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Indian players who have global fan following are not allowed to play. that's the rule.
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and if you can't get the likes of MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli or all the other big boys we have
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playing cricket across the world for their country and in the IPL league
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I think you will that many audiences
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BCCI knows, if Indian players play in these leagues
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value of these leagues might increase
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because of Indian viewership
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and if their value increases
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It might dilute the power of BCCI
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These boards have become so weak in front of BCCI
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that they have to listen everything that BCCI orders
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because these boards only make money when India tours their countries
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BCCI uses this very thing to get their things done in world cricket.
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In 2012
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England's former Chief Justice submitted an independent report to ICC
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In which, he had suggested some changes in ICC's governance
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Like he felt,
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ICC shouldn't be a Member's Club
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Cricket Power is leaning to one side
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Especially towards India
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Associate nations aren't getting enought funds
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Cricket won't grow in these countries without funds
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ICC requires Independent governance
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Lord woolf: I was asked by the international cricket council
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to have a look at their governance
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Although, I'm not a expert cricketer, but I do know about governance
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as I have indicated, I don't think it should be a member's club
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I think, it should be run for the benefit of cricket as a whole
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rather than the interest of individual members
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well, BCCI didn't like this report
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They rejected this offer
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However, ICC's some administrators supported this report
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like players representative Tim Lay
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BCCI fielded their candidate before next players representative elections against Tim Lay
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and threatened other board members
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If they won't vote for their candidate, they will not tour their countries
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Tony Irish: We are aware of the fact that the captains have come under pressure
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to not to vote for Tim Lay
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Tim Lay: There is this pressure put on them that if they didn't vote for that particular candidate
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their tours would be taken away or India would not tour those particular countries
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Tim Lay: By their Boards, by their individual boards
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Tim Lay: They were feeling the pressure from BCCI
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and BCCI's candidate won, of course!
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not only this
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ICC's former CEO Haroon Lorgat
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took a premature retirement from ICC because of difference of opinions with BCCI
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and when South African Cricket Board appointed Haroom Lorgat as their administrator
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So to teach a lesson to SA Cricket Board
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Newscaster: In a developing on the absurd
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The BCCI has reportedly threatened to pull out of the tour to SA later this year
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BCCI shortened their SA tour
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SA Cricket Board had to face millions of dollars loss
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BCCI was criticized all the over the world
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but did they care?
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No!!
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Instead in 2014, they took a step
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which ensured that
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that cricket will not go anywhere else from his fist
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Newscaster: The BCCI has given a green signal to a proposal
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that will give three countries that's India, Australia and England more power and more money
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Newscaster 2: meaning the BCCI and N Srinivasan will take central leadership
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of all international cricketing affairs
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Newscaster 3: Draft also proposes a new financial model
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with the big 3 set to have lion's share
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Newscaster 1: While the BCCI claims that this move is betterment of the game
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It could just end up destoying world cricket as we know it
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You know, to steal the cricket former cricket controllers like England and Australia
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India had to take help from Srilanka and Pakistan
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But that's not the case now
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Now BCCI has taken England & Australia together
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and they made big 3
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Whatever revenue ICC generated before this
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was distributed equally among all the members
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But BCCI one day said,
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ICC's 75% of revenue is generated because of our viewership
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So we will take the biggest revenue share.
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and they took England and Australia with them
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three of them, keep half of the revenue generated by ICC
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BCCI takes the biggest share
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ICC has only 12 full time members
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and around 100 associate members
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These members are underfunded
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There is no chance that, cricket will grow in these countries without any funds
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like once 30K $ given to Chinese cricket board to improve cricket there. [2008 stats, current stats are not published]
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China's population is around 1.5 billion
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How's that even possible, that cricket will grow in country like china with this fund
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It's not only about associate nations
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Even full time members are being further weakened
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If we see latest ICC Men's Future Tours Program
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India will play most of the matches with top teams
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and with Zimbabwe and Ireland, India will play 3 and 2 matches respectively in 5 years
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when Zimbabwe and Ireland also full time members
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If we see only Test matches
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then India will play most their Tests with England and Australia
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Chris Gayle: Occasionally we might get a 2 test matches or 3 test matches against the tough team
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So that's gonna leave you as one of the teams below
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It's ridiculous
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Toni bezier: As far as the administrators of the game concerned
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don't care about West Indies Cricket
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West Indies Cricket Board is bankrupt today
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2 times world champion team couldn't even qualify for the world cup
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Just because of lack of funds
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How these teams, cricket boards will grow without the funds?
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ICC is unofficially run by BCCI
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But instead of growing this game, they are shrinking this game
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Look at this
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in 2007's World Cup
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16 teams played the world cup
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and in 2023's world cup, only 10 teams are playing
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You know why?
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In 2007's world cup India was eliminated early from the tournament
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They could only play 3 matches
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because of this, broadcasters had to face the loss
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If India had played more matches, broadcasters would have benefited.
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resulting, BCCI reduced the teams
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and the format is designed in a way, India would definitely play 9 matches
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BCCI doesn't care about winning World Cups
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They just want to make money
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I feel, this sport should spread like football all around the world
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Only 10 teams should not play in world cups
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It's boring
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and I think, Cricket has power to spread peace and hapiness
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Reporter: In a country where so many are being traumatized by years of conflict
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Cricket is providing peripatetic qualities
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that are helping release stress
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If afghans didn't have cricket they would drugs, take part in war or other miserable things
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Psychologically, cricket takes there minds away from the bad things
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People won't take part in elections but they will in cricket
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Cricket holds other meaning for other people, but for afghans it is the way of happiness
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But, BCCI is killing Cricket.
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Read this news, If you don't believe
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From 2024's IPL, there will be no international cricket will be played for 2.5 monthsO
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Only IPL will be played in this 2.5 months window
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isn't this the murder of the sport we love so much
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The sport which Indians love so much
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the same Indians are becoming the reason of the death of this sport
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then a thought came into my mind
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whether it was NKP Salve
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Whether It was Dalmiya
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Mr. Scindia
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Srinivasan
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Whether it was Sharad Pawar
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or it is Amit Shah
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Indian cricket is mostly run by Indian Politicians and businessmen
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Currently, most of presidents of state cricket associatons are Indians
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Arun Jaitley who was an politician
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today, his son is president of DDCA in his place
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Rajasthan's CM's Son vaibhav gehlot is President of RCA
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Sharad Pawar's Grandnephew is a President of MCA
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Anurag Thakur, BJP politician, was a president HPCA
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from there he became a president of BCCI
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Today his brother is a president of HPCA
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Ashok Sigamani is a president of TNCA, who is a son of a Minister
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Jyotiradhitya Scindia is the president of MPCA
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Before him, his father was a president of BCCI
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Nepotism is quite vivid in here
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Former BCCI treasurer Chirayu Amin's son Pranav Amin is BCA's President
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Sourav Ganguly's brother is a President CAB
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and the most fun example of this is
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Gujarat cricket associations former president was PM Modi
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He gave that post to Amit Shah after becoming Prime Minister
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and today, Amit Shah's son is the secretary of BCCI
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and I'm only talking few state associations and president posts
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there are many examples of this
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the thing is
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Cricket shouldn't be run by politicians and businessmen
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It should be run by former cricketers, that's it
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I'm the biggest fan of cricket, like any other Indian
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I can't see that, one private organization is controlling the growth of this game
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It's so sad
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I want this sport to grow all over the world
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Because this sport can do many good things
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and afghanistan cricket team is one such example
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These players initially used to live in refugee camps
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They played world cup in 2015
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and you know what, Afghanistan cricket was initially helped by BCCI
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I think there might be some people in BCCI, who love this sport
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who want to grow this sport
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But right now it feels like
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There are people in BCCI who don't care about the growth of this game
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They just want to make money
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They just want to keep their power safe
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Whether they had to Kill this centuries old sport to achieve that
