BCCI fears the effect of launch of ICL by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group – the war is on between Kapil Dev and Pawar
Ajit Parker
Sep. 29, 2007

The rebel league, announced in April, has already roped in a number of former Test cricketers and two high-profile former captains West Indian Brian Lara and Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq.

"The year under review was challenging in more than one way. Our team's dismal performance in ICC World Cup 2007 put Indian cricket to acid test as it brought severe criticism from millions of Indian fans and our players themselves were in a state of shock and disbelief."

"A private entertainment company (Zee) saw this as an opportune time to announce a rebel cricket league in India," Pawar stated in the report, which, for the first time in the BCCI's history, was distributed to the media at the end of its AGM in Mumbai on Friday.

Without mentioning the rebel Indian Cricket League or its promoters by name, BCCI President Sharad Pawar, in his annual report, has laid the blame squarely on India's World Cup debacle for the launch of ICL by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group.

But the fact is simple, ICL is the future of Indian cricket. Unconventional players like Kapil Dev and Dhoni are the ones that bring for India.

It is time for Pawar to stop using cricket for money and power. It is time for Rahul Dravid who literally licked the boots of an Aussie coach to leave cricket. It is time new and young Indian cricket under the leadership of Kapil Dev.

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