What a debacle - India's great capital city, the world famed New Delhi, now has an international venue condemned unfit to stage any World Cup games in 2011. And the rest of the cricket world is sniggering.It serves them right, too after the final game of Sri Lanka's tour of India at Feroz Shah Kotla ended in chaos, abandoned into the 24th over of an innings fraught with problems for the batsmen being hit by vicious deliveries that created an obvious danger to life and limb with the touring team's score 83 for five wickets.
And those on the Delhi District Cricket Association headed by a politician, now stand accused of allowing such a fiasco to happen. If they have a conscience all DDCA members would resign with immediate effect. Hanging signs around their necks about their roles in this shameful act of discourteous behaviour to a visiting team and the paying public wouldn't go amiss either, but that won't happen in the aftermath of what has been a disastrous advertisement for Indian cricket at a time they don't need it. And with the way the city is dallying way behind schedule preparing venues for the Commonwealth Games next year, it adds to the developing image of what has become an international joke.
You can bet that had Australia, England or South Africa been involved in this game they would have walked off the field in disgust and demanded the game's abandonment within the first five overs, pointing an accusing finger at the DDCA hierarchy as being incompetent buffoons. But Sri Lanka, like New Zealand, were trying to play "Mr Nice Guy" by not seeking controversy, they leave that to those in charge of the various state venues to create their own mess.What a mess it has become as well. And the repercussions are likely to have serious implications, as already indicated with the BCCI disbanding its own pitch committee. This signals a vote of no confidence in the panel which faced a lot of embarrassing questions, headed by Daljeet Singh, assigned by the BCCI to look at the pitches across the country. There will also be queries asked about the venue as fit for the Indian Premier League games.
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