Just a few days ago, I wrote about how process-oriented the US was, and the contrast with India. In a separate post, I also wrote about how polluted our cities were.
As though to underscore both these points, along came today's one-day cricket match at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi.
First, the pollution and haze. You can see it in these photos. It was in fact a lot worse on TV and in real life. A friend, Dr. Vijay Kumar of Amazon, was watching the match from Seattle and sent a mail saying that what he was seeing "is essentially a black screen". And he added, much as I had indicated in my previous post, "Sad thing is, everyone you meet in India will tell you that according to their newspaper, Delhi's air is cleaner 'per capita' than world cities."
Second, the pitch. It was a scandal. One would have thought that there would be a process to ensure that the pitch conforms with international norms. One could use bowling machines, play a Ranji game, have a third party expert certify it - whatever. As things turned out, the top DDCA and BCCI honchos were sitting in the stadium as bystanders as the match referee declared the pitch unsafe. And the thousands of money-paying cricket fans were deprived of a good game of cricket and their Sunday was ruined.
"Bahut shade hai" was a phrase we used to use at IIT. It describes today's non-match aptly.
6 comments:
Respected sir,
I conform with the fact that our country seriously lacks well defined processes in organizing international events. It is really ironical that the country is poised to be a superpower in the coming decades, we seriously lack professionalism in our execution. we are going to host common-wealth games in our country. Its time for country to organize it in a perfect way and put forward a very different image to the world. As an eternal optimist, lets hope the best...
Shravan gupta
Manas, Divya and I were driving back home when the match was abandoned, and I told Divya that this is embarrassing beyond all proportions.
BCCI is the richest of all cricket boards, and yet we cannot provide a suitable pitch to play for an international match.
I seriously hope that Delhi doesn't get a World Cup match in 2011 (as they are contemplating). That may open up some eyes, though unlikely.
Respected Sir,
I am also worried about the condition of the political party(head of Delhi Cricket association) related to this match.
Yours Sincerely
Avinash Choudhary
Respected Sir,
What I think is that DDCA and BCCI lost their credibility for sure ,but what about the Cricket crazy audience.They are the people who suffer a lot due to this scam ,Where as in other perception we as India as country lost our credibility,which will Harm our sports field and the most important thing is that the country where cricket is taken as the religion,there our pitch curators are doing such type of non sense Its amazing!
respected sir,
this my first comment on the bolgs
yes sir this is very serious topic that should be solve as early as much possible.
and other thing is sir that your todays lecture in proton auditorium was realy realy good lecture in term of the reality of corporate world.
sir this is the result of your todays lecture that the boy who is from hindi background but have some courage to write comments...
Cheetan, good to see your comment here!
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