Chark Blog - Orissa

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I wrote a little while ago about the funeral for William Armstrong. Here is a link to an excellent obituary in The Independent.

The riots in Bangalore have subsided. The row over Shilpa Shetty is simmering but not explosive. Today's big news is that the Indian cricket manager, Greg Chappell, has been assaulted for failing to select anyone from Orissa State in the Indian team. When he took the job I can imagine Chappell had a few concerns - selection, fitness, opposition, poitical tension - but I don't suppose being beaten up at an airport was one of them.

The other thing he would never have predicted is that the BCCI the Indian cricket board would grant TV rights to an operation which has resulted in the most popular sports entertainment for a billion people not being available to half of them. That is even worse than not selecting anyone from beautiful Orissa.

1/23/2007 1:42:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I thought you were unfair to yourself and other publishers when you worried about the smart entrepeneur who said:

The only other industry consisting of massively over-compensated mediocre performers who have utterly outlasted their utility and raison d’etre and exist only by virtue of an entrenched, self-protective, bullying autocracy that gangs up against threats posed by obviously more efficient methods that would, could, should and will eliminate them—is ---

I can think of several organisations that fit the description including whoever looks after English cricket and even some departments of government, professional bodies etc. (even public the public library world springs to mind)

Why can't we have Greg Chappell? If you see him perhaps you could ask him?

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