All I wanted to know was BCCI's history, official version and looked up on the web. Unfortunately, I failed.In this age when class VII students(perhaps even younger kids do so) host their own websites, I was astonished that a search for BCCI official website on Google made me no wiser. Am I to believe that world’s richest cricket board does not know what a website is? Yes, I am talking about Board of Control for Cricket in India, the body that governs cricket in India.
ICC, or International Cricket Council, has its own official presence on the web. 'Poorer' boards such as Cricket Australia, England and Wales Cricket Board, New Zealand Cricket have their own websites, where they have variety of content pertaining to the game. Pakistan Cricket Board too has a website.
Is this not snootyness, or plain and simple disregard for public communication, that an organization that conducts the most popular sport in India does not feel the need for official content on the web(suppose I want to look up the cricketing calendar of Indian national side or Ranji, where do I look up, newspaper sites?Or,dedicated cricket sites??). Isn't it funny (and ironical too, perhaps), that a game in which we have official drink, official sports gear but no official website of the 'national' cricket board???? Is BCCI looking for a sponsor here too?Well, there will be plenty, I suppose, willing to take it up.Perhaps it is time for BCCI to wake up, in the interest of public communication. The press conferences in 5-Stars are not enough.
ICC, or International Cricket Council, has its own official presence on the web. 'Poorer' boards such as Cricket Australia, England and Wales Cricket Board, New Zealand Cricket have their own websites, where they have variety of content pertaining to the game. Pakistan Cricket Board too has a website.
Is this not snootyness, or plain and simple disregard for public communication, that an organization that conducts the most popular sport in India does not feel the need for official content on the web(suppose I want to look up the cricketing calendar of Indian national side or Ranji, where do I look up, newspaper sites?Or,dedicated cricket sites??). Isn't it funny (and ironical too, perhaps), that a game in which we have official drink, official sports gear but no official website of the 'national' cricket board???? Is BCCI looking for a sponsor here too?Well, there will be plenty, I suppose, willing to take it up.Perhaps it is time for BCCI to wake up, in the interest of public communication. The press conferences in 5-Stars are not enough.
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It is truly astonishing and intriguing why BCCI does not have a website and does not have any data repository of domestic and international cricket played by the Indian Team in the public domain.
While the registered companies in India are being increasingly made transparent about their Financials and all other transactions and the Right to Information Act has also celebrated its anniversay( however tumultuous), it is an imperative need for the followers of cricket as well as the players of cricket that BCCI creates a web site for itself and provides all data pertaining to Indian Cricket on the site.
Thanks and regards
Shashank
Even Bhutan has it..so does vanuatu, luxembourg, malta, nepal and a never-heard-befoere country called guernsay..
http://www.tigercricket.com/
http://www.bermudacricketboard.com/
http://www.canadiancricket.org/
http://www.usaca.org/
http://www.malaysiacricket.com/
http://www.thailandcricket.com/
belgium.cricketeurope.net/
www.cricketargentina.com/
www.cricket.de/
gibraltar.cricketeurope.net/
www.crickitalia.org/
www.cricket.or.jp/eng/
cricketkuwait.com/
www.cricketnamibia.com/
www.cricketnepal.org/
www.kncb.nl/ - Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond
www.cricketscotland.com/
www.cricket.org.sg/ - Singapore Cricket Association
www.austrian-cricket.info/
www.bhutancricket.org/
www.vanuatucricket.com/
www.jersey.cricketeurope.net/
www.cricketfinland.com/
www.maltacricket.biz/
www.cricket.lu/ - luxembourg cricket federation
www.greece.cricketeurope.net/ -
www.norway.cricketeurope.net/,
www.swisscricket.ch/
www.spain.cricketeurope.net/ - Cricket España
www.portugal.cricketeurope.net/ - Portuguese Cricket Federation
www.guernseycricket.com/ - Guernsey Cricket Association
www.cypruscricket.com/
www.maldivescricket.com.mv/
www.cricketforbundet.com/ - The Swedish Cricket Federation
www.isleofman.cricketeurope.net/ - Isle of Man Cricket Association