BCCI: “I was dead at the time”
The BCCI has commenced at full throttle it’s campaign to convince the world, and especially the Indian tax authorities, that it wasn’t even in the room when Lalit was being naughty, and that it definitely was nothing to do with them.
As Eddie Izzard would have said, “I was dead at the time”.
The BCCI is behaving like an especially useless parent when it tries to suggest that it is not it’s job to oversee the IPL. Here’s BCCI president Shashank Manohar chuntering at a press conference after the all-important meeting of the governing council:
There are huge companies that are run by people and those people, once a decision is approved, don’t go and look at the document whether it is properly executed or not.
Really? Do the world’s biggest multi-nationals really just say “right, Dave, you take charge of building a ladder to the moon” and then just forget all about it? If only there were some official process whereby financial accounts could be checked thoroughly to ensure that they are in order.
Behind all of this inane wittering lies the age-old excuse of incompentent numpties everywhere – “not my responsibility”. This from the President of Indian cricket. It’s quite twisted to think that the BCCI’s defence is that it was too busy neglecting it’s responsibilities to notice what was going on.
Whilst the BCCI is busily standing Lalit Modi on the naughty step with one hand, the other hand is behind it’s back with fingers crossed, hoping no-one notices certain rather obvious “allegations”. The main one of these “allegations” is that they were far too busy dancing naked in large piles of cash to worry about which detergent had been used to wash it.
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