Punjab Cricket Association president I.S. Bindra on Tuesday fired yet another salvo at the cricket board claiming that BCCI had lost Rs 44 crore by awarding telecast rights for ODI series against Sri Lanka and South Africa to Prasar Bharti.
"Doordarshan clinched the deal after offering BCCI a deal of Rs 7.5 crore per match. Another TV company had offered the Board Rs 135 crore for telecast of 12 matches as against Rs 91 crore what it will get now," Bindra said.
The former BCCI chief said the BCCI was playing 'fraud' with the country's cricketers and the cricket-crazy public as the rights for the 12 matches had been awarded to Nimbus for 1.75 million dollars as against Nimbus' own offer of 5 million dollars.
"It is a big fraud with the cricketers, state associations and the general public. Last year, the board lost Rs 350 crore by undervaluing what it could have earned by awarding various rights," Bindra said adding that he had on Monday approached Delhi High Court regarding the alleged fraud by the board.
Bindra, who has earlier on several occasions alleged that the board was not interested in marketing domestic cricket, said the board's reluctant attitude had cost domestic players Rs 37.5 crore in 2004.
Anyone who is aware of the niceties of cricket will know how true these allegations are. Jaggu Dalmiya, the mastermind behind BCCI, is the richest man and surely the biggest fraud in the history of cricket. Time and again cricketers have been criticized for match fixing. Fixing is a form of corruption, and that scam was nothing compared to BCCI's internal corruption. The administrators are the biggest frauds in cricket. Dalmiya is their kingpin. BCCI is also involved in several cases of tax frauds. If you remember, last year Zee TV got the TV rights for the cricket matches in India, only to be revoked after a few hours. It was Jaggu Dalmiya who botched up the TV-rights contract by creating a deadlock between Zee TV and ESPN Star. In the end, both the channels got nothing and Doordarshan got the contract once again. I don't have to rant about DD's incompetency and poor service. Doordarshan is the most undeserving TV channel to telecast a cricket match. Dalmiya is always on their side to gain political leverage and to stuff his pocket. According to some sources, BCCI has amassed such colossal amount of money that if they erected a wall their cash, the wall would never end, because of the speedy growth-rate of their unscrupulous earnings.
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