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If you get caught in drugs dope scandal either :

1) Blame it on your mom pleading ignorance.

2) Blame it on the injury like Asif or now Steyn

3) Blame it to the disruptive element like Afridi….

Whatever it is, its always a touchy affair to draw a conclusion on players in contention on drugs ;P…Whats WADA doing now ? Quiet ? Whats with them they bark only on Indians ?

BTW did I say Indians suffer a huge deal of racism in DUBAI ?

Do we need Tests ? yes pretty much.

MS Gill says his two cents (or dimes) on WADA issue and since it involves cricket, he takes “panga” with BCCI. Quite expected. There is a lobby in India comprising of other sports who are against cricket. And it leaves no stone unturned to pass gibes (or jibes or fibes) on cricket.

Not that we do bother…..

I again reiterate its double standards of WADA. A proved drug addict (nashedi) in Asif and Akhtar finds way to cricket every time they are found positive. And a guy called Tendulkar along with Sehwag, Dhoni, Yuvraj are framed in IRTP or whatever list for random off season testing.

Is there even a comparison ? If WADA is so concerned on the doping free world or say doping free cricket, then pester Butt’s ass to hand over a life ban to Asif and not play him the CT.

Just that the Indian players had the guts to come out in open and other players of other countries meekly surrendered. But i guess other players esp from Australia and England should follow the suit and trash WADA from cricket.

I mean its ridiculous to blame BCCI even if CA doesnt tour Pakistan. Ok BCCI markets the game well in India by hook and crook, its got IPL which shook the base of English cricket so much so that ECB had to hook onto the devil spirit of Stanford 20/20 to save its cricketers from fleeing to I(C/P)L. Wont Stanford prize money create a rift among so called united English team if it wins a game and manages to get the price money ? Playing XI get a million each and the 4 players on bench get 25% of a million. Wow.

Now if 13 Bangla players ditch their national colors to play for ICL, how come BCCI comes to picture and how do they cause it ? Didnt we speak of end of BCCI’s monopoly in aftermath of WC 2007 when ICL was born and India lost in first round of 2007 WC ? And then didnt IPL happen and it took everybody by storm ? Television viewership went on max high, the auctions were innovative, they gave a market value to the players and tagged them with a dollar tag.

PCB cries foul over CA not touring them. Bloggers blame it on BCCI. How ? Despite being alleged to have shunned the Test cricket for T20 games, India play 11 Tests over next 5 month period home and away. Pakistan and SL play none. Only Australia play more than India with 12 Tests home and away. Have we seen any T20 international game being scheduled in India on cost of a Test ? There could be a huge temptation to play in a T20 quadrangular in Toronto in October as most of the players playing T20 for India would be free except the openers and skipper MSD who would be doing national duties against Australia.

The thing is the boards like BCB or PCB or ECB are not able to get their things right and set their house in order, so for every wrong thing happens to them, the authors, the bloggers and the media jumps the gun to blame BCCI. Take BCCI out of picture and then lets see how ICC manages finance to “globalise” the game and run the game worldwide !!

Though I am not supporter of BCCI and not pro Sharad Pawar. And yes the doping has struck WI cricket too with Xavier Marshal testing positive in the Stanford 20/20 for 20.