The ‘BCCI’ hand

For those of you who were too young to know, our country underwent a period where if any thing untoward happened, for example your dog died, it was blamed on the ‘foreign hand’. The ‘foreign hand’ invariably was the ‘CIA’.

So it is with ‘déjà vu’ I read:

Mystified players privately questioned why the process to find Hayden guilty and then slap him with a reprimand took nine hours - suggesting it was a politically based decision with pressure brought to bear from India.

Substitute ‘BCCI’ for the ‘CIA’ the same situation prevails today, atleast in Australia. It has become fashionable to suggest that the ‘BCCI’ is the cause of all illness.

Undoubtedly, it gives an Indian reader immense pleasure to read about the ‘BCCI’s’ growing affluence and its resultant influence.

However, as a thinking cricket fan, one is bound to ask, is there any truth to these Peter Lalorish statements?