Are we seeing a BCCI Carrom Ball? - Part 2

Everyone will indelibly remember the dismal performance of our Indian team in the 2007 WC where they had to exit in the very first round after a shocking defeat to the Bangladesh team. But, the 2007 edition was also the one where ticket sales and viewership plummeted in the Caribbean Seas due to several reasons most notably being the ironclad fact that the Indian team's sudden departure from the Calypso. I am not making this up. When India exited the 2009 T20 WC, TV viewership declined.

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Similarly, the viewership skies upwards to Exosphere @ Superman's flying speed whenever there is an Indo-Pak clash.

  288 MILLIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN cortexes hammered in by the ads

But, when you have watched that match closely, you would have found that the Pakistani fielders dropped many catches off Tendulkar. I am 110% positive that everyone would have heaved a big sigh of relief and cheered the Little Master like me whenever the fielders spilled their chances. Sadly, there is yet another spin to it. I did not take it seriously when news broke out that the match was fixed. However, 6 years has passed since the massive emotional event and many a pattern has been established which will certainly sow the seeds of suspicion in the minds of any logical, reasoning and rational person. I shall furnish out the pattern but kindly read the explosive article before it. 

                                                             The article is a nuclear drop..!

The pattern is as follows as compiled and curated by me from extensive research:

Tournament	Year	Hosted By	Finals
Champions Trophy	2013	England	India Vs Eng
World Cup	2011	India	India  Vs SL
World Cup	2015	Australia/New Zealand	Australia Vs NZ
Asia Cup	2013	Bangladesh	Pak Vs Bangladesh
Asia Cup	2014	Bangladesh	SL Vs Pak
Asia Cup	2016	Bangladesh	India Vs Pak
T20 WC	2012	Sri Lanka	SL Vs WI
T20 WC	2014	Bangladesh	SL Vs India
T20 WC	2016	India	WI Vs Eng

A back of the envelope calculation reveals that in the major tournys played since 2011, it is more than 50% of the time that a host team has featured in the finals barring their winning/losing the game. Not to mention that SA, WI and Aus tri series held @ WI in 2016. No Surprises. WI was in the final and it was against Aus.

Also, Afghanistan was 2-0 in the series against Ireland held in India. Suddenly, Ireland won the next 2 matches and it went into a decider much like the India-Australia test series. I am not undermining Afghanistan series triumph or India's victory or the heroics collectively exhibited by the Men-in-Blue, okay Men-in-White! 

But, with IPL around the corner, a massive win against the Number 2 team as the mighty Australians will categorically, convincingly and markedly increase the market value of the ads and the players for the next one year especially with the Champions Trophy around the corner and the Indian Team's stellar success under Kohli's positive aggression  leadership in this season.

Economic Times ensured that my workload is reduced by half in breaking down these indisputable and irrevocable numbers.

  

TARGET: 1300 crores in 2017

Though Kohli might have missed out in the Oz Series, it is really unfair of some critics to pan him down when he has splendiferously delivered his goods consistently. It is only when you get out onto the field and play under the duress of the grueling hot sun that people will understand the tremendous difficulty.

I have not played cricket on a professional level yet I have experienced the scorching torture of the sun sapping away the heat from your body and wearing you out like how Dravid makes the bowlers tire. It is the same as saying that writing a blog is extremely easy. But, when you actually sit down to type out or write an unbiased, neutral and objective write-up, then you will know the travails and how arduous it is to bring out the entire thought process revolving around a theme to the fore.

Need I say more.. or lessssss?  That's a solid, textbook defense to Doctorate providers

In this case, this blog is about the fact, using hard core facts, as to whether the ICC, BCCI and other cricketing bodies are hand in glove with each other by misusing, abusing and exploiting the keen, honest, genuine and earnest sentiments of cricket lovers just to extend their personal cash reserves at our expenses - Financial, Mental, Physical and mainly Emotional cost. 

I am neither a big time nor a small time conspiracy theorist. In fact, I used to wonder how the real CTs work. All I have done here is to present the current situation AS-IS with the help of figures, tables, numbers, quotes and established patterns.

I leave it to you to better discretion and bright minds whether the matches are being fixed by the upper rungs in the hierarchy and we are all made fools in one go by the complete Cricketing Bureaucracy.

                                                              

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Disclaimer:

This blog is not intended to discredit, disgrace, disrepute, malign or defame BCCI or ICC or any other Cricket Board or any player in any manner whatsoever. I have said and presented the data as clearly as possible allowing no room for any misinterpretation. Any wanted, warranted or unwanted conclusions or inferences derived is solely the reader's responsibility and not mine.

PS 1:

Kohli will achieve even greater heights as a captain if he abstains from repeating the same antics as his opponents by firmly setting a better example to our team and millions of youngsters who see him as their idol just like MSD. Some might perceive his mirroring of the opponent's rile up, mock or taunt to be childish and immature when he is way beyond that. Why to get an unnecessary bad name when you have excellent qualities?

PS 2:
I am neither suffering from apophenia nor banged my head against a wall to conjure up the data to suit my theory.

PS 3:
I am not saying by any stretch of imagination that I am ONLY factually right or realistically wrong. The data is accessible for you to verify, cross-verify and validate.