Leading cricketers are hesitating from giving clear-cut statements in favour of Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI imposing much-needed harsh conditions on International Cricket Council ICC to expel terror-generating Pakistan from ICC, for the obvious reasons of more than hefty monetary receipts from BCCI in form of annual salary-package, pensions, match-money and award money running in annual receipt of crores of rupees for each individual cricketer.
It is despite the fact that BCCI affairs are under supervision of Supreme Court administered monitoring committee. It is non-sense to plead that sports, arts may be kept out of Indo-Pak affairs. Pakistan Cricket Control Board and ICC are financially dependent totally on Indian cricket. Breaking cricket-ties with Pakistan will make PCCB totally collapsed and Pakistani cricketers coming on streets. ICC cannot run without membership of India. Rather than giving up important match-points to Pakistan by declining to play with Pakistan, better is to take even harsher step for BCCI to leave membership of ICC in case Pakistan is not expelled from membership of ICC. Isolating Pakistan in every field will practically ruin the terror-country Pakistan economically which is a better option than war.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL