Sharad Pawar and BCCI

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Bal Thackarey asked sachin to concentrate on cricket and not to get involved in politics. I think thats a pretty decent advice as long as there is no motive of getting political mileage from that. But what I think is more dangerous is Politicians getting involved in Cricket. I don't think its any lesser thanthe bookies and gamblers getting involved. We have never seen as many controversies coming up before Sharad Pawar taking the head position in BCCI. He killed the ICL just for his own political ego. ICL never threatened the authority of BCCI or ICC for that matter. A harmless T20 league which provided platform to many unknown cricketers full of talent to perform on a big stage. The Telecast rights saga is also well known. The fact that BCCI has an agreement on days of play basis and not on the number of match basis motivates the board to have test matches that will stretch the full 5 days and hence the pitches that are almost marble top. Politicising any thing is always bad for it.Sooner or later Cricket will cease to exist as a sport and will merely be turned into a mode of entertainment. What do you think of POliticians jumping into the cricket boat?