BCCI and its arbitrary ways

The BCCI's arbitrary ways of functioning are well known and is well documented. But still few things are perplexing to say the least and there is no signs of acknowledging the mistakes, leave alone correct it.

To start with let us have a look at the local/state teams associations setup. The constituent members of the BCCI are as follows

• Tamilnadu
• Kerala
• Karnataka
• Hyderabad, Andhrapradesh
• Mumbai, Maharashtra, Vidharbha
• Gujarat, Baroda, Saurashtra
• Punjab,
• Haryana
• Rajasthan
• Himachal Pradesh
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Delhi
• Uttarpradesh
• Orissa,
• Bihar
• Jharkhand
• Madhyapradesh
• Assam
• Tripura
• Railways
• Services

The disparity is obvious in the composition of teams of three states - Andhrapradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat - why more than one teams for the above three states only ? May be it is a colonial Hangover. States like Tamilnadu and Karnataka can easily have two teams in the national circuit - one team comprising of the Metro only and the other team comprising from the districts.

Karnataka state cricket associationhave done a good job of nurturing rural talent by having a KPL. Infact if each state has good league system with good interchange of one-day, T20, three day games it will go in a long way in spreading the benefits of the commercialisation of the cricket.

IPL should have started from bottoms-up and gone up - a.la. Americal Basketball/baseball league rather than the current top-heavy structure.