If you want to see what kind of politics is played between the State Association and BCCI then IND vs BAN is a fine example and one of the major reasons Test matches hardly bring audience to the Stadium.
Management and senior players were against playing at the venue as it was not fit to host a test match but BCCI couldn't do anything because there is retarded rule of "Rotation Policy" and UPCA has the blessing of Rajiv Sukla.
Need serious reform on the rotation policy and test matches must be restricted to only 6-10 Stadiums only.
A single day of rain washout means millions of USD in losses for the media rights holders. Viacom purchased the media rights for Indian home matches (September 2023 – March 2028), for a total of ₹5,963 crores. Given the fact that there are around 30-40 days of play by the Indian team at home, that translates to around $5 million per day. Who will compensate Viacom for the loss of revenue? Ideally the UPCA should be asked to reimburse this amount, as they are the main culprits here.
There are quite a few lobbies within every state board and in this case, Rajiv Shukla's influenced the decision. He's been there for ages, like a real survivor and doesn't matter who is heading the BCCI. Be it Congress, BJP, Shard Power or Srinivasan.
Now, he's saying that we will upgrade the stadium.
UPCA in talks to upgrade Green Park stadium, says Rajiv ShuklaLook at his take
"Sometimes it happens, though we all pray to Lord Indra, that it should not rain, but, you know, it happens. And it happens throughout the world. So, why unnecessarily Kanpur and Green park are being blamed for something which is in nature's hand?" Shukla, who has previously served as the president of the association, said on the sidelines of the second Test.
And this ..
The rule should be simple: if you can't provide basic facilities, you shouldn't get the test match or any international fixture.
"This is the first time in 80 years that it has rained so much that we were not able to host the match for two days. But history suggests that no match has been abandoned here. There are lot many venues in the world where because of the rains, matches have been abandoned. Because when this ground was being built, stadium was being built, then those technologies were not available
Just one more wicket and it will be all done for Bangladesh. They are leading by 80 runs and so far Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja has taken 3 wickets each. BTW, Jadeja's test tally has now gone up to 303 wickets, at an average of 23.85. Now compare this to Mohammed Siraj, who has 76 wickets to his name at an average of close to 30. And guess who gets maximum media attention among these two? Same with Ashwin as well. 527 wickets at an average of 23.65, but Bumrah gets a lot more attention (164 wickets at 20.51).
Lol, let's compare once a generation (Jaddu) talent to a workhorse (Siraj), that will solve the problem. I'm not sure if Siraj gets more limelight than Jaddu.
Indians have been searching for a seamer like Bumrah for so long hence the attention and rightly so. Ashwin was always underrated in this team but not because of Bumrah. It's the Batriarchy influence on Indian cricket (Kohli-Rohit and earlier Dhoni) or in general because it's a batter game.
It's Batriachy vs Bowlshoviks and the former takes the cakes always.
