It might have been long in the coming but comeuppance has finally caught up with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The antitrust regulator, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), has levied a fine of Rs 52.24 crore on the cricketing body on charges of abusing its dominant position by stonewalling access to other entities looking to organise private domestic cricketing ventures. That seems to be a tall order given the history of the BCCI replete as it is with garden-variety malfeasance to power-brokering of the cut-throat kind. The BCCI management has been rent with fiscal corruption, mismanagement and round-tripping of funds. Under different satraps, the cricketing body has been manipulated into doing the bidding of its masters than serving the larger cause of cricket in India.

Source: dna December 01, 2017 01:41 UTC