Not long back there was an acrimonious change of guard at the helm of CAB (Cricket Association of Bengal). Incumbent Jagmohan Dalmiya was elbowed out of office by Prasun Mukherjee, backed by solid political patronage. Mukherjee happens to be the city police chief.
One therefore thought India-Sri Lanka one-dayer yesterday would be a cracking of a match. In reality, with rain playing the spoilsport, the whole thing turned out to be a dampener. It rained less than an hour, scattered but not torrential. When it stopped there was still lot of time to play. One-day cricket has magic formula in which there can be curtailed version also.
But only about 18 overs could be bowled. Because of inadequate equipment and infrastructure, the cricket body could not manage enough ‘super soppers’ to soak and make the ground fit for playing. CAB has 2 of them, but in spite of forewarning of rain, it did not consider necessary to keep both ready.
Since admission tickets were priced very high, those who bought felt cheated at the turn of events. It’s not clear if there’ll be refunds.
For Prasun Mukherjee, it’s not a good start. He may give any number of reasons to ward off complaints, but the fact is this incident will stick on him as an example of his being incompetent, unless he proves otherwise, which may be a long way off.
Some other day, some other time! [Picture source]
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