Why is the BCCI a mute observer to Bindra’s blatant mud-slinging

We must remember, values and virtues are seldom hereditary. They are acquired through committment which is an integral part of good value system. You can’t make a committment to your country by selling secrets to the enemy. You can’t keep a friend by revealing to others what he might have told you in confidence. Unkept committments result in dishonest behaviour.

I am not as much distressed by what happened "within" the ICC as I am by remarkably loose statements from outside. I am indeed referring to Mr I(A!)S Bindra’s cut-throat competitive edge. Having worked with this outstanding senior bureaucrat in close quarters, I am absolutely aghast with Mr Bindra’s sense of timing. To reveal all.

I am not sure what Mr Bindra’s eventual aim is. Right from the time he called a press conference in Delhi about a month ago, the former BCCI president has been weird, to say the least.

He is behaving like a broody hen sitting on a China egg!! It is awfully difficult to perceive what he wishes to inform the reader and what script he is trying to protect. He is indeed creating a difficulty for every solution. Now on the verge of retirement, Mr Bindra’s life appears to have been one long, long meeting. Even some of the committees he does not belong to, the agenda seems to wink at him.

I am astounded by Bindra’s self-righteous interview to the CNN, in which the vicarious pleasure to nail Kapil Dev was ever so unnecessary. I just cannot figure out what is going on in the back of his mind. Somewhere down the line I feel sorry for the bureaucratic fraternity just as I feel very angry with how my own ilk have allowed the game to be mauled. But I am confident that cricket will triumph as its character at the base is very strong. I hope someone from the bureacracy will emerge to put forward a similar plea.

It seems the PCA chief couldn’t digest the fcat that there were many barriers to his gate-crashing the ICC meeting. The frustration was too heavy to carry. It had to be off-loaded and poor Kapil was made a scapegoat via the alleged helping hand of Manoj Prabhakar.

What is even more intolerable is that the BCCI is a mute observor to all this silly and incoherent mud-slinging. The BCCI must stand by its coach in office or advice the man to step down gracefully until such time his name is cleared.

Kapil will now live with this guilt until proved innocent, which is an enormous tragedy really. Quite clearly, the BCCI has no control over the code of conduct for officials. As a former international, I would like to assure Kapil of all moral backing of cricketers, who must come on a common platform and rid the game of non-cricketing entities.