Bullies and kiddy fights

Finally, the cloud has lifted. The Chennai high court has given its decision on the whole messy TV rights issue - ESPN-Star and Zee are both going to cry foul while the BCCI and PrasarBharti are going to laugh their way to the banks with the telecast rights in their kitty.
Such is the shambolic administration of cricket in this country, that the nation’s favorite sport ran the risk of losing the India-Pakistan series to some careless functioning of the governing body. The court of course has done the most sensible thing that could have been done. Doordarshan would have telecast the matches anyway, given the little time remaining before the series starts, but by asking the BCCI to hand the feed rights to someone other than ESPN or Zee, the court has snatched the toy from two quarrelling kids and grounded both. Ironically, their bully, the BCCI, is the one who has gone scot free. It can now start playing another game with someone else. Having aptly demonstrated so far that they are no good at their job, and are letting money, power-play, one-upmanship and politics take precedence over the greater good of the game and its fans, we should rather be asking the court whether the BCCI deserves to be the “administrator” that it claims to be.