Flau, I am following the issues you are pointing about other boards. Many of the issues don't rankle me that deeply - like bringing in people from everywhere (country itself is like that only), Flower asking for Bell decision to be reversed etc. I don't see pitch standardization as an 'evil' imposed by Eng/Aus. I think it is to a certain extent necessary. btw I am not denying that this may have something to do with my own strong bias in favour of watching matches with the kind of conditions we get to see in Aus-Eng (broad sweep) rather than big-score belters, first day dust bowls etc. But I don't think the local flavours should (or would) be significantly altered, that'd take the fun out of touring.
Yes Eng/Aus players ought to be pulled up lot more than they are being done now for on-field indiscipline. I have been observing what you are talking about, since you spoke about it last year. Till then I had largely dismissed it as paranoia. en aRivukkaNNai thirandhadhaRku nanRi. But I still maintain support Hair wrt to the Oval incident. I feel what was done to Daryl Harper was outrageous. I do find the influence of BCCI excessive, in absolute and in relative terms.
And lastly my support or lack of it, for any team has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. If I support Aus in this encounter with SL, it is because Aus is the underdog and I don't like most of the SL team members - as simple as that.
I guess this whole 'invocation of politics' at every turn was spurred by my note that Ranatunga politicized calling Murali as racist. I want to clarify, if at all it was not already abundantly clear, that that is a mere sidenote to my opinion of the Murali chucking issue. My opinion about Murali's action remains - and my opinion why the whole establishment bent (pardon the expression) remains.
