The BCCI (Board Of Cricket Control In India) has finally embarrassed and humiliated the nation as a whole. Being a sports lover and enthusiast, it disgusts me at the way the BCCI is handling the WADA(World Anti Doping Agency)issue. To date 571 organisations from 191 countries have signed up for the code. Add to this list are representatives of every Test playing nation and also the federation of internation cricketers. So who do the BCCI think they are? powerful because the have money to flaunt. Apart from India and a few other cricket playing nations( I think I can count them on my fingertips) who knows who Indian cricketers are? The BCCI and the Indian cricketers have shown their ignorance and uneducated background by declining to sign the code and also raised issues.Indian cricketers are worried about the 'whereabout clause' due to security concerns. Are they GODS to the world? "Superstars" like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps have signed the code. FIFA, though they have some concerns, have signed the code. So who are these minuscule sportspersons known otherwise as 'demi-gods' in Indian cricket to stand firm and show their arrogance and ignorance? Do they think they're bigger than Bolt, Federer, Phelps? Id rather not answer that, the way they are acting and commenting on the issue, to face further embarrassment. Indian sport stars such as Bhupathi, Mirza and Bindra have also signed the code and have urged the cricketers to sign. Seems like just because the BCCI and the players haven't played cricket for a while, they are missing the media attention they are so usually showered with.
Cricketers from around the world have been recently trying to get the game to the Olympics but one of the pre requisites is the signing of the code.India boasts of a paltry 17 olympic medals in 88 years of competition which shows why they are not familiar with anti doping rules. The Board who is suppose to be educating the players seem to be more ignorant and have taken a stand behind the players.Indian cricket stars have to realise they are a MINORITY in the world of sport and can easily be banned from international competition if they fail to sign the code within the stipulated deadline. I'll just end with a comment from so called Indian star Harbhajan Singh and his comment to the where about clause "If I go somewhere like buying vegetable and at that time WADA needs my sample then it will become my fault and repetition of the same for more than three times will make me a defaulter," he wondered.Ignorance or a global sports superstar.
