In a world where sport is ignored in order to promote a cheap television image of an ongoing series, it makes you wonder how former Test captains, once admired for their leadership skills, have been conned into selling themselves to endorse a gimmick.
While the cheerleaders get their tawdry act together, you have Lalit Modi, with the showy arrogance expected from a mediocre politician, or even some over-blown yet lightweight sports administrator, showing how he runs the Indian Premier League as its commissioner. All the while, he is doing his best to thumb his nose at the International Cricket Council and other member countries.
But in two of many of the contrived episodes in the so-called ‘tactical break' there was Kepler Wessels giving a sheepish grin when wearing a white top endorsing the IPL sponsors' logo, he talked to Matthew Hayden at The Wanderers about the IPL.
You don't need to be a public relations expert (mindful that an ‘ex' is a has been and a ‘spurt' is a drip under pressure – hence ‘exspurt') wondering what next will emerge from this malfunctioning PR corps who dress former Test captains as puppets. What makes it more hilarious are the now tacky de rigueur media releases which actually concerning the game of cricket.
First is the way the PR goofs handled the media release citing Kamran Khan, the Rajasthan Royals bowler, whose action at times could make him more useful in a javelin-throwing event and a place in the Indian Olympic squad.
In the statement released, Modi consequently comes across as a mismanaged Thespian disaster involved in an act that is sheer theatrical torture and makes him appear a bigger idiot than did George Bush on a good day. Reference here concerns the Kamran issue and how this is to be handled. The second is the matter touched on last week over the IPL and match-fixing security and the BCCI president, Shashank Manohar's response to the match-fixing issue, which it is said, has created doubt about the results of some IPL games last year.
In a media release on the Kamran action, it is noted that Modi said he had seen the report of the three umpires and video material of the game at "the Centurion in Pretoria".
Really? At the Centurion in Pretoria? What sort of obtuse gibberish is this from what is a bunch of sycophantic morons running the IPL PR system? Just where on the map of South Africa is the Centurion in Pretoria? Is it a hotel, a shopping mall or a suburb of Tshwane?
What this explains is just how dysfunctional the whole system has become, with the chief mutant ninja and his motley moronic pals giving misleading geographic details.
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