Was it Real Transaction of Cricket Power to India?

In this commercial age of cricket every cricket experts tries to make BCCI and Indians happy by stating in favour of BCCI and Indian players after landing in India.  In continuation to this attitude, after world cup 2011 most of cricket experts sated that this is transaction of cricket power period from Australia to India. These experts praised Indian players cheaply out of the frame without looking their records outside the home. Yes Indian won World Cup 2011 and it was huge achievement but this was not the end of cricket achievements of cricket diary. It is a matter of fact that Indians are not good outside the country. Though they won series against a weak team of West Indies but in England they failed by worst way. And now in Australia they are struggling once again. The question is why it is happening while Indian players are enjoying every facility available in cricket now-a-days. The best coaches of cricket world are available to them. Because of commercialization, Indian players are the richest players of cricket world. They are enjoying huge support of Indian cricket fans. The have support of umpires in doubtful decision because of pressure of BCCI on umpires.

If we look at the attitude of BCCI and Indian players, we can find the answer to some extant.

In recent days successful captain of Indian cricket history Mahindra Sing Dhoni has stated that he is thinking regarding retirement from Test cricket in 2012 for extending his one day cricket  career. It is funny. The question is why he can not leave IPL for extending his test career? Clearly it shows his lack of interest for test cricket in presence of commercialized IPL. The same dilemma is happening with other Indian cricketers. After loosing 2^nd test to Australia, media reported that Indian players have not taken it serious and instead of practicing hard for upcoming matches they were busy in travelling and parties. What these entire stories tell us? Besides Indians, players from other countries also compromised on their career when they saw a very charmfull option of IPL. Though initially, Gill Christ and Symonds avail it while they were able to play international cricket for years, but in recent days Lasith Malinga from Sri Lanka has also become the victim of IPL when he announced early retirement from test cricket.  One can conclude that in presence of option for commercialized IPL the senior Indian cricketers are not taking test cricket seriously; therefore their performance outside the home is still worst as it was in the past.

BCCI is the richest body of cricket in world.  But their focus is not on cricket matters. They are trying to earn money even on the sacrifice of cricket. They want to enjoy their power for political and injustice causes. The attitude of BCCI is also one reason for non-seriousness of their players on the field. Look at the unserious demands of BCCI in ICC meetings. They opposed UDRS while rest of the cricket world is in favour of UDRS. They tried to change the constitution of ICC to prevent small countries as  president of ICC in future.  They threw Steve Buckner and Darrell Harper out of the field for some of their doubtful decisions, which are unique examples of cheap use of power by any cricket board. They are busy to isolate Pakistan from other cricket playing nations by preventing Pakistani players from playing IPL. Though playing IPL is not a matter of proud but still the attitude of BCCI shows that they are using it for political reasons.

In existence of this unserious attitude of BCCI in cricket matters, how can their players remain serious in cricket on the field? After all the attitude of BCCI should be the Role Model for their players.