The BCCI and it's outdated superstitions

If you thought that the BCCI was an organization, whose management style resembled something from the middle ages, then here's another example to back up your thought.  According to reports BCCI have trashed the new jersey that Nike India had made specially for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka, on the grounds of some superstitious beliefs.

BCCI scrap the new kits as their astrologer deems it to be unlucky.

N. Srinivasan, the BCCI's President is known for his superstitious beliefs and he takes no decision in his life without first checking with his astrologer.  Now that seems to be the same for the working of the BCCI too, as the new kit have been thought to be unlucky and the 2011 World Cup winning kit lucky.  Think it all to be ridiculous?  Well its not for a man who announced the World Cup squad a day later, since it was a luckier day with the numbers adding up to 7 - MS Dhoni's number.  He also is said to have specially chosen the yellow color for his IPL team - Chennai Super Kings, based on his astrologer's advice and when CSK had lost a string of matches in the IPL, he had the team change their dressing rooms.  He travels only on certain days as not all days are auspicious for travel and if given a chance will probably rearrange the entire working calendar based on his 'starry' beliefs.

Now with light being shed on this BCCI's decision, one cannot help but wonder just how many of the BCCI's decision has been based on such superstitions.  Most of BCCI's nonsensical decisions can probably be attributed to this.  This lapse in reasoning and logic is perhaps what attributed the BCCI to pick Piyush Chawla and Rohit Sharma in the World Cup squad.  The appointment of Greg Chappell as the coach, the dropping of Sehwag due to 'injury', and scheduling so many India - Sri Lanka series all makes sense now.

Now that the strange decisions by BCCI make sense, I just wonder how many cricket boards also follow these stone age superstitious beliefs.  Could West Indies dropping their number one player, Chris Gayle and England dropping Kevin Pietersen after he scored one of his best centuries be attributed to some senseless beliefs of the unknown?  The ECB is probably as much superstitious as the BCCI with their persistence that Samit Patel is not over weight and the selection of Darren Pattinson in 2008.

At least these revelations that the decisions made by the boards aren't completely random and does have a reasonable explanation in their beliefs of superstition does settle a few nerves and its good to know that the future of Indian cricket is in the hands of the person who reads the stars.

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