On Nov 20, 6:07 pm, alvey <al... at (no spam) play.com> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:09:27 -0800 (PST), Nirvanam wrote:

snip badly flawed rant.

Anyways, the flagstone of your faith is that [paraphrasing] "it's India's
turn now." And [not paraphrasing now] "After all they [CA] were bullies not
too long ago."

Could I have some examples of CA bullying please?

selecting merv hughes

snip

Just curious, and not trying to be at all impolite

Would your name possibly be Nikhil Shah?

Surely the best outcome is for the ICC to be an equal partnership of
all the International Boards.
I can't understand why Indian cricket officials (and a number of their
fans) wish to adopt this imperialist/colonialist/autocratic set up and
run things as their own private fiefdom.

Especially when some of them profess to have an abhorrence of
imperialism

Higgs

I vividly remember this is what was proposed by Dalmiya in the mid-90s
if not exactly, at least to make it a level-playing field on revenue
sharing. But the ECB and CA it was who were too damn precious to
accept the change in culture for "their interests". They wanted the
rest of the world to be subdued. Its like this: you can keep even
superman in control and as your slave as long as superman does not
realize his strengths. Till the mid-80s the Asian boards were treated
like mice and they themselves thought they were mice. This constant
mistreatment and injustice drove them to introspect their position,
contribution, and involvement in the game as a whole. The
introspection made them slowly realize they weren't really mice after
all. Probably cats. And then the 87 Reliance Cup happened. By the time
it was mid 90s they realized they were Elephants not mice. And the
Elephant was still being a "domesticated" one when it proposed the
change in status quo for the ICC and the game. But the mice-trainers
thought they could still use the same "methods" and "tools" and act
like mahouts. How unfortunate, that they didn't realize that the mice
KNEW it was an Elephant. An Elephant that does not want to be tamed
can NEVER be tamed. Trying to act like a mahout when their skills were
suitable only for mice-capture did ECB and CA no good. They destroyed
their own credibility, and the obvious successor was the Elephant.

Bizzare.

If you find sentiment of equality bizarre then nothing can help you
mate.

Crikey! That's your list of CA bullyings!!!!!
An entrepreneur fighting established Boards? That's a crockery-rattling
lol.

So, is Lalit Modi not an entrepreneur? The only difference is that the
ACB was stupid enough not to realize his potential and resisted him,
whereas BCCI is smart enough to realize his potential and provided him
an opportunity to help materialize his idea within the "official"
frame.

You'll have to do several thousand percent better than that or wear the
Laughing Stocks for the rest of your days.

Let me make this clear once more, if you haven't yet understood it. IN
case you are expecting me to respond over personal attacks, then your
expectations will be met with serious disappointment. In case you
continue to get personal, there is only so much I will take. And I
promise you I'll screw you so bad mentally, psychologically, and
emotionally you will not die a peaceful man.

You could've stopped at "You'll have to do several thousand percent
better than that", the rest of the sentence was not necessary. But
everyone deserves to know when and where he is getting personal with
the other person. So I am requesting you to refrain from getting
personal.