{"id":5119,"date":"2008-01-31T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2008-01-31T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T18:20:00","slug":"the-shah-of-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-shah-of-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shah of Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"
Indian cricket provides us with the best of sport and entertainment. The cricketers provide the sport; the cricket administrators provide the entertainment. The tireless and brave Prem Panicker trawls through mountains of cricket coverage every day to bring us the very best<\/a>, and nothing beats this remarkable interview<\/a> of Niranjan Shah, BCCI’s secretary, by Mihir Srivastava of Tehelka<\/i>:<\/p>\n Tehelka<\/b>: For the sake of argument, what is the more important criterion for selection: performance or rotation policy? Would you drop the best performing players for rotation policy?<\/p>\n Shah<\/b>: Rahul’s performance is not there. Lakshman’s performance is not there.<\/p>\n Tehelka<\/b>: I am talking about Ganguly. He has done well.<\/p>\n Shah<\/b>: Lakshman has done well too. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ignore the misspelling of VVS Laxman’s name—isn’t this just priceless? Who needs Bollywood?<\/p>\n Update<\/b>: Actually, the excerpt quoted above isn’t remotely as funny as the last answer in that interview<\/a>, which reminds me of this young lady<\/a>. It is incredible. It is so good that no one could have made it up. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Indian cricket provides us with the best of sport and entertainment. The cricketers provide the sport; the cricket administrators provide the entertainment. The tireless and brave Prem Panicker trawls through mountains of cricket coverage every day to bring us the very best<\/a>, and nothing beats this remarkable interview<\/a> of Niranjan Shah, BCCI’s secretary, by Mihir Srivastava of Tehelka<\/i>:<\/p>\n Tehelka<\/b>: For the sake of argument, what is the more important criterion for selection: performance or rotation policy? Would you drop the best performing players for rotation policy?<\/p>\n Shah<\/b>: Rahul’s performance is not there. Lakshman’s performance is not there.<\/p>\n Tehelka<\/b>: I am talking about Ganguly. He has done well.<\/p>\n Shah<\/b>: Lakshman has done well too. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ignore the misspelling of VVS Laxman’s name—isn’t this just priceless? Who needs Bollywood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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