Gavaskar latest column has managed to stir up another controversy. The usual suspects have started wiping up passions. The methods are the same, quote a statement out of context or play up on the prejudices by talking about the BCCI as an imperialist force bent upon subjugating the free and liberal ICC.
For example here is a post from Andrew Bolt:
India rises, and it’s no more nice to the sahib:
INDIAN batting great Sunil Gavaskar has accused Australian cricket of having “a misplaced belief that they are the only ones with honesty”.
By the end of this century, with the respective growth rates as they are, we may learn to be as deferential to India as Indians were once to the colonialists.
Whatever the type of false propaganda, the BCCI has failed to counter it by being transparent about its intentions. Sadly, Gavaskar and his ilk have only intensified the xenophobia. Surely he could have said the same thing and as forcefully without resorting to sensationalism. If he had written it expecting it to stimulate debate, then he is mistaken. It has only served to harden positions.
However, the answer to the question whether the BCCI is bent upon bringing the ICC under its control is a resounding ‘no’. It is high time CA and the ECB acknowledged the BCCI as an equal and stopped treating it as an upstart.
They can begin the process by asking their minions to cease this unsavoury campaign of imputing ‘imperialist’ motives.
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