It is one of the darkest days in the history of Indian cricket. A billion fans have been taken for a ride. They have been cheated or I may say, a nation has been cheated. Cricketing fans at the stadiums feel their money has been wasted. Today every cricket fan is sad , disgusted and angry.
Is it really so ? Is it really a national issue ? Do you really feel cheated ? I am a cricket fan too but I somehow do not echo the same sentiments. I mean I don't think that a spot fixing in a franchise based cricket tournament should be made up a national issue when there are already many open GATES leading to the huge palace of corruption (coal-gate, rail-gate, chopper-gate , never ending etc.)
IPL is meant for entertaining people. When you go to watch an IPL match , it is not cricket , but the electrifying atmosphere which you enjoy the most. It is the great IPL experience which you take back home. And after getting back if you get to know that one of the overs was fixed , do you really care ? Most of us would say that why the hell there was any need to fix that bowler when he anyways would have given a plenty of runs :) Just recall how many times you have said to yourself or discussed among your friends about a match being fixed due to a totally unexpected turnaround of events. Catches being dropped by the best fielders , no balls being bowled at crucial phases or batsmen just throwing away their wicket when they are close to a win. After all such instances, being a supporter of losing team, you would have said..yaar fix hai sab :)
Yes , the guilty should be punished, but will banning them for life help ? I mean life ban would mean actually a ban of just 5-6 years for a player who is already in his 30s. There needs to be a stricter punishment. Having said that, I also don't agree to put them behind bars for 5-7 years. A country whose super rich cash league is being run by underworld kingpins via 1000s of agents, couldn't catch the real culprits and finally put their own cricketers behind bars. How can you justify that ? I agree that it is up to the players to stand up and refuse such offers. But what about cracking the whole nexus ? What are you doing to avoid such things in future?
As a process analyst , here I feel like taking a cue from the ITIL framework established for IT service management..haiinn ?? ITIL?? Is this guy mad??? :) I know you must be wondering how it suddenly shifted from cricket to IT.:) But in ITIL , there are two very important concepts of incident management and problem management. Incident management deals with fixing a particular disruption or issue in the system. But it does not stop it from recurring in future. For removing the root cause of the incident, one has to apply problem management.
What Delhi police or the BCCI has done or is doing from past is actually an incident management. These match fixing issues arise just like a huge incident and police fix it by nabbing few of them involved. The system continues to run again without analyzing the underlying root cause. They need to analyze why these things are happening repeatedly. What I understand from the latest reports in media is that a huge amount of money from underworld is being pumped in IPL. The betting centers in India are being run from foreign lands. It is not clear how actually the players get their payment. Players are also seen with many shady characters who suddenly appear from nowhere and then vanish into the crowd.
These things create an environment which leads to some suspicion and they can be called as the potential root causes which leads to such sad events. Delhi police have done a great job in nabbing those involved in spot fixing , but to solve the overall Problem they need to eliminate the root cause. Which unfortunately is not and never was in their control. And a sincere request to Media...Please show some news on LBT issue, coz currently that is something which is affecting my daily life and has become a national issue at my home..:(:(
