May 18, 2024

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While everyone seems to be criticising Kohli for the Knee debacle. Ganguly led BCCI should not be spared too 

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Sourav Ganguly, one among India’s most profitable captains, grew to become the thirty ninth President of the BCCI in 2019. After taking up as BCCI president, the prince of Kolkata indicated in his trademark aggressive model that ‘performance’ will likely be a very powerful parameter upon which the staff will likely be judged. “Performance is the most important thing and will decide the future of Indian cricket.” he had mentioned. However, three years into his tenure, it seems that the ‘performance’ standards have been changed by the flexibility to garner ‘woke points’.  It all transpired on Sunday (October 24) in the course of the India-Pakistan conflict, after the nationwide anthems of the respective groups. The two Indian openers sauntered throughout the turf to open the batting. However, a momentary confusion ensued as Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul seemed in the direction of the dressing room as if ready for some form of sign. The confusion main as much as the actThe commentators had been perplexed, so had been the viewers, earlier than it grew to become clear that the Indian openers had been searching for the nod to go forward and take a knee for the Black Lives Movement marketing campaign.  After 30-seconds of confusion, the 2 openers knelt whereas the complete Indian squad, behind the boundary strains, sat on one knee. The Pakistani staff didn’t take the knee however crossed their fingers and positioned it on their hearts. The confusion amongst the Indian camp meant that the choice was taken on the eleventh hour with little to no session with the gamers. Kohli acquired the stick however Ganguly was sparedWith the Indian aspect having few Social Justice Warriors in its ranks, it doesn’t take a lot to hitch the dots as to who would have orchestrated the complete act. While Virat Kohli, the staff skipper, rightfully acquired the stick for permitting it to occur, not many questioned Ganguly.  It seemed sure that BCCI underneath Ganguly could be freed from the malice that plagued his predecessors and the personal organisation. However, quite the opposite, it’s underneath Ganguly that the Indian cricket staff has yielded and brought the knee to assist the Black Lives Movement marketing campaign, all while being disconnected from actuality. Without BCCI’s nod, which is run by Ganguly, not a single resolution might be handed, not to mention taking the all-important name of taking the knee. The motion was aimed for the betterment of blacks within the states however what the Indian staff did was merely an empty re-enactment of a Western symbolic gesture, that reeked of an inferiority complicated.  The woke athletes of the staff needed the participation trophy by aping a motion that may make completely no affect. While the West barely acknowledged their act, the cricketers, as an alternative, obtained bucketful of criticism. Read More: Indian Cricket Team took the knee for Blacks, slain Hindus in Bangladesh don’t have any takersKneel, however for the HindusIn the event that they certainly needed to make a distinction, they might have stood for the killing of harmless Hindus in Bangladesh, or for that matter, West Bengal – Ganguly’s house state. But with large PR companies dealing with the contracts of megastars of the Indian staff, and Hindu lives being inconsequential, taking the knee for them wouldn’t have made an affect from the monetary perspective, and thus the cricketers stayed put.  Sourav Ganguly is a legend of the sport and an administrator par excellence however it doesn’t imply he’s outdoors the ambit of criticism. Under him, the Indian staff took an illogical and ill-judged resolution and he must come clean with it. All is just not misplaced and the BCCI president could make up for it by not permitting the staff to kneel down or in the event that they do need to fulfil their progressive agenda, don’t kneel however stand for the Bangladeshi Hindus. That would suffice. 

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