India's recent devastating defeat against South Africa has stirred a very bitter reaction from the media and the common people. Understanding the gravity of the situation, India's chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar is going to South Africa to boost the morale of the Indian team. Well, hardly anyone would feel assured about this matter. On the other hand, BCCI Vice President Shashank Manohar has called for performance based salary for the cricketers.
NDTV reported:
On his part, BCCI Vice President Shashank Manohar has said that the Indian cricketers should "not be paid a single penny" for the way they played in Durban.
Manohar, who has been for long advocating the introduction of the pay-by-performance scheme for the Indian team, added that the Board was not to be blamed for the team's poor performance.
"We are administrators and we have done our utmost to provide the players with the best of facilities and support staff. It's the job of the players to deliver on the field, not ours. We at best can take corrective action and measures," he said.
This is a nice way to evade the main problem and Mr. Manohar has surely doneit in the best way. He had made the players scapegoat. However, he failed to state that it is BCCI officials who select everyone in Indian cricket. I feel that there should be an overhaul of BCCI. Right now, politicians and ex-cricketers run BCCI. They have hardly any skill in sports management. Sports management is a sophisticated field and if we look at USA then we can see that professional managers run the top sports bodies.
India needs the same thing- professional managers who would do everything to win. This is perhaps the only thing that can work for India.
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