Looking by media reports, the crude sexist comments on the Koffee Using Karan chat-show telecast on January 6 were all made by Hardik Pandya and not by his fellow-interviewee K L Rahul who, the moment asked about his relationships, kept a level head on his back and answered every question carefully.
So it does seem not simply illogical but illegal for Rahul to be given the same part of punishment as Pandya in terms of being suspended from in no way just the three one-day internationals in Australia but the subsequent ODI and T20 series in New Zealand.
Media reports indicate that Vinod Rai, the chairman of the Committee of Administrators (CoA, which is overseeing the functioning of the BCCI as per the Supreme Courtroom judgment), wanted Pandya and Rahul to be banned from the primary two ODIs in Australia but that his fellow administrator Diana Edulji wanted harsher punishment following an inquiry.
The moot point is even if an inquiry was needed since all the evidence was available in the form of the chat-show which had been telecast. However, Ms Edulji wanted an inquiry and she was supported in her need by the three acting office-bearers of the BCCI (the president, secretary and treasurer) who may have felt this was a good prospect to hit back at Mr Rai who had stopped them out of flying at the board’s expense to attend the ODI series during England last summer.
For her part, Ms Rai felt she obtained been snubbed by Mr Rai who had used his position for the reason that CoA chairman to over-rule her when she wanted Ramesh Powar to continue as the coach of the women’s national team. With both the CoA members communicating with each other through emails which had been subsequently leaked, there is a perception that the disputing administrators may possibly have felt that the Koffee With Karan chat-show gave them typically the opportunity to hit back at Mr Rai.
Ms Edulji has right now demanded an inquiry, with the subsequent punitive judgment to be granted by a temporary ombudsman. Everything from who will conduct the query to who will be the temporary ombudsman seems to be a issue, with Ms Edulji taking a diametrically opposite stand from Mr Rai.
The acting BCCI office-bearers seem to be playing along using Ms Edulji and fishing in troubled waters, with one of these people, according to The Times Of India (TOI), even going to typically the extent of suggesting that Pandya and Rahul be banned for some sort of year and citing the 12-month ban imposed on Smith and Warner for asking their team-mate Bancroft to rough up the cricket soccer ball by rubbing sandpaper on it during the third Test match with Cape Town in South Africa on March 24, 2018. Can typically the two be equated?
According to TOI, Ms Edulji even cited the particular instance of the legendary all-rounder Lala Amarnath being sent back regarding “insubordination†from India’s 1936 tour of England by the then captain, the Maharaja of Vizianagaram, or Vizzy as he was known.
So should Indian cricket in 2019 be taken back to the thirties days of courtly, darbari intrigues when the maharajas were mismanaging your show even though the likes of Vizzy did not deserve for you to play in the national team let alone captain the side!
Distinction this with the mature manner in which the England Cricket Panel (ECB) allowed the all-rounder Ben Stokes to play in the five-Test series against India in England in the summer of 2018 also while there was an ongoing court-hearing against him for knocking out two men during a late-night brawl in Bristol in 2017. Stokes was subsequently acquitted of the more serious charges.
It is apparent that Pandya and Rahul are being used as pawns in the exact ongoing tussle in the CoA. One can only sympathize with Rahul who did not make any of the crude, sexist comments Pandya did.
Again, as another TOI report points out, there is basically no BCCI inquiry of any kind against the national T20 women’s company captain Harmanpreet Kaur who was demoted by the Punjab government out of her rank as DSP (deputy superintendent of police) following an expression that she had submitted a fake graduation-degree certificate. Ms Edulji acquired recently supported Ms Kaur’s demand that Ramesh Powar be allowed to continue as the coach of the national women’s team but these had been over-ruled by the CoA chairman Mr Rai.
At some time when K L Rahul has lost his form, his profession is now endangered, following the telecast of the Koffee With Karan chat-show
What could have been dealt with firmly and quickly provides now been converted into a cyclone in a coffee cup!