Is Kapil Dev right in saying that BCCI has divided Indian cricket ? ?

Question

Kapil Dev, former Indian cricket team captain accused an important BCCI official on Tuesday saying that the cricket world would be divided because of one man.

Kapil Dev is the chairman of the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL). While speaking during the function to launch the Dhaka Warriors team, he said, "There is one man who will be responsible for dividing the cricket world."

But, when he was asked to name the person, the renowned former cricketer said, "I don`t want to name him. You all know who I am talking about."

Kapil added that he was hurt as some of the ICL players were denied their pension. Kapil said, "Are players who have signed with the ICL untouchables? Why deny what is due to them."


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Answer 1

Yeah! Really, what is the difference between the ICL and IPL?! Not much that i can see. Both involve a lot of money for not too much work.

But players that may not have got much out of the game despite a lot of talent, now have the opportunity to do so thx to the ICL. Not only has the BCCI divided indian cricket, it have divided it over the whole world. Like not allowing Kent to play in the Champions league becasue some of their players had also appeared in the ICL. If thats not dividing cricket i dont know what is.

Answer 2

Well this is no new topic....................BBCI under Sharad Pawar and Dilip Vengsarkar has lost its sheen......................honestly speaking all this dividing cricket thing started when vengsarkar kicked dravid out of the ODI team saying he never added value to the team........and then ganguly came out..........all this wen these guys were in acceptable form............after tht came this ICL drama...............the main reason why this war waged between ICL and BCCI was because BCCI wants to be the lone cricketing body in India..............so that leads to the birth of IPL..........a cricketing tournament similar to ICL launched with support from BCCI in which current players from indian team featured too!!! So tht's about the answer for you.........Kapil Dev is rite......because BCCI wanted to be the lone cricketing body he has divied cricket

cricket is a game, a game which everyone can play and i dont see who gave BCCI the rights to brand ICL as a rebel league

besides just a few weeks ago sri lanka lifted the ban on ICL players but i think they went back to their old ways.......my guess BCCI has some sumthing to do with it.................so yes they are not only dividing indian cricket but they have a hand in ideologies of other teams too

so kapil dev is absolutely rite

Answer 3

none likes to go off their monopoly just like that. BCCI was with fret and fear when Kapil , an Icon of Indian cricket joined hand with ICL..They thought they will be losing teir ground.they might have lost the ground if Lalit Modi did not act war footedly to compete the ICL/ any rebel for instance. What Kapil said is correct and time will prove that. BCCI is very rich so it can dictate terms to ICC also.

Answer 4

Much tho' I sympathize with his sentiments about the pension part, I have a Q for him. A Q as to why he joined ICL at all. He is an icon. All love the fact that he brought the WC to India. Yet, he joined ICL while being with BCCI.



My argument is not about ICL vs IPL or BCCI. I am not talking of politics. I speak of discipline and rules. He broke them. ICL broke them.

The other players knowingly joined them. Knowing ICC does not approve.

They joined an 'untouchable' group lured in by the carrot hanging in front of their noses. They could have stayed on, in their National team.



Ending with a hope one day ICL will get the stamp of approval.

Answer 5

IPL is useless cricket and so is ICL. Those tournaments just make shed loads of money ands thats what it is all about in indian cricket at the moment.



BCCI, is wrong in more than one ways, and when the team starts losing more often, as it will when the seniors retire, they are going to have a serious hard time.

Answer 6

They have defiently divided cricket and Kapil was right in forming this rebel league because of the pyramid system where the grass roots are negelected

He was once told he could not be a fast bolwer and he proved it

why is it that we get rubbish like rohan gavaskar others in the team

there are no spectatiors to see the local matches so they need to earn somehow

Answer 7

its all about money. BCCI felt threatened that their monopoly can be clouded if ICL becomes big, so what better way than to crush competition early itself??



Then these guys gave the audience the IPL blitzerig which just sounded the death bugle for ICL.



Pointing fingers on BCCI is not "VERY" rational. Lets remember that ICL was not launched with some noble motive, there was sheer economics behind it

Answer 8

Kapil Dev did serve a short stint as a coach but didnt have a good record. Anyways, more then Kapil Paaji or Greg Chappel or anyone else, its the team that needs some major revamping and they need to do some serious soul searching. Our coaches and managers have been very good. But ultimately its our players who are going to play the game and not coaches. As a famous saying goes, "A Father will teach you how to produce kids, but he will not actually produce the kids, will he ?" I think in the last 20 years, Ajit Wadekar was the best coach/manager we ever had.

Answer 9

He is right to some extent, as BCCI should not have banned the players opting to play in ICL from National as well as domestic tournaments.

Answer 10

he is right

Answer 11

yeah!!