Crucket

I have a pretty unsophisticated library method. I just grab anything interesting I see on the “librarian’s choice” display. Three weeks ago I picked up Dada & Surrealism for Beginners, The Seven Basic Plots, Bombay Mix: Street Photographs and Why Don’t Spiders Stick to Their Webs?. I also saw Out of the Park: The Craig McMillan story and thought I’d give it a go. Craig McMillan is a bit of a mystery – wouldn’t you like to know why he was so unpredictable? What was with the form roller coaster? What ever happened to his Carnivore franchise?

The book is due back on Saturday and all I have managed to read is the first page of the introduction.

The first reports of the latest dastardly move by the BCCI took the line that the IPL sponsor Sony weren’t happy with McMillan commentating on Sky on the current Indian series because of his involvment with the ICL. No real evidence for this claim was put forward apart from the fact that Ravi Shastri, who has been commentating on the ODIs, suggested it might be a problem. And no indication that the BCCI are involved.

It seems incredible that this infantile feud should spread to the commentary box, but enough insanity has been perpetuated in the pursuit of exiling the ICL that it didn’t seem impossible.

The development of the story, reported later today, is that the BCCI themselves are involved and that they are requesting that NZC stand McMillan down.

There has to come a point when this insanity will bite the BCCI on the arse. How embarrased would the BCCI be if McMillan does get to publically talk about the Indian team? I’m pretty sure that Macca won’t get his chance to commentate. But there are some barriers for the BCCI getting their way. Firstly, they can’t tell NZC to get McMillan off the Sky commentary team. Surely. What influence does NZC have over Sky? And what right would they have to use any influence? Secondly, Sky and Sony may have a bit more business sense than to allow themselves to get themselves involved in feuds between sporting organisations. Maybe one of them can knock some sense into the BCCI.

Does Radio Sport get anything from Sony? Perhaps McMillan could get a gig there.