Corruption and interference plagued selection
procedures.
Sport, one felt, was always about clean, soul-moving victories. Not
in India. Here it comes hammerlocked by officials who stain the sport with corruption,
parochialism and gross interference. This year was no different. There was the bungling
"bunch of jokers", the selectors, who again played havoc with the cricket team.
They divided it, decided who should bat where and shattered confidence by discarding
players like a lousy hand. Then, the sports federations chose all the wrong people for the
Asian Games and almost left out the right ones like Dingko Singh. Victories, if they ever
happen, will come not because of the officials, but in spite of them.
Sport, one felt, was always about clean, soul-moving victories. Not
in India. Here it comes hammerlocked by officials who stain the sport with corruption,
parochialism and gross interference. This year was no different. There was the bungling
"bunch of jokers", the selectors, who again played havoc with the cricket team.
They divided it, decided who should bat where and shattered confidence by discarding
players like a lousy hand. Then, the sports federations chose all the wrong people for the
Asian Games and almost left out the right ones like Dingko Singh. Victories, if they ever
happen, will come not because of the officials, but in spite of them.
