Champions Trophy

With the BCCI making a deal with willow tv to stream matches live in the champions trophy, I can now watch live cricket after ages. Little bit pricy but never the less better than nothing. The matches till date have been not upto the mark from a viewers point of view but there is hope in the coming weeks.
The ICC seems to be mad at the Indian board over marketing issues. ICC is like the unemployed son that has to look upto Big Daddy for pocket money but is not ready to play by his rules. Last week a technicality ruled out BCCI from bidding for rights to ICC global events. The Wisden Almanack editor made this comment at the BCCI - This is an organisation that only set up its own website in the last year or so. Not so long ago, frustrated observers would complain that it was incapable of answering a letter. Now it is saying, 'We'll deal with worldwide television for you'. Wisden would like to know that websites are not the be all and end all of everything. Contrast the '99 World Cup with any other in the subcontinent. We had full house for neutral games. And all this was made possible by the marketing strategy and people in the subcontinent. So why is there a question over our potential to market global events.

ICC was also not pleased by the BCCI inviting Azar for a felicitation function at the CCI. Get over it! He has paid enoughfor his alleged involvement in the match fixing scandle. Isn't Mark Waugh and Warne and Gibbs still playing after accepting to take bribes to underperform or share information (which is as good as giving the game plan before hand). Everyone has to have a chance to rebuilt. And the BCCI is right in giving fair treatment to Azhar. After all he is the most sucessful Indian captain after Ganguly. Not even greats like Kapil, Gavaskar and Bedi have matched his record as captain.

Rantlings!

Lots of different things happening in the last few days. The one bigger than others was about getting a upward shift at office. A bit uncomfortable at the begining. Same as with all new things. But never the less this was one change I wished to happen. I had somehow started feeling stagnated in the previous position. I guess it had reached the 'use by' date. The last few days were fun. I also got to be the stand-in boss for sometime (days actually!).
Other happenings include finding a new place to stay, market hunting for a car, basic furniture and getting ready for the BIG day!