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Champs relegated to the rear

Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni alone got some space among that 'elite' crowd, while the rest of the players were relegated to the obscurity of the back row.

As a comment on how the BCCI views cricket, that image spoke volumes: It is about the officials; the players are at best an afterthought.

In fact, the whole spectacle seemed like a well-organised political rally, with Board president Sharad Pawar, who is also the Union Agriculture Minister and a political heavyweight of the state, playing to the galleries in a speech that would not have been out of place at an election rally.