The face-off between Sunil Gavaskar, arguably one of the greatest openers the game has seen, and a passionate, but by no means a fair, supporter of the game, Raj Singh Dungarpur, cannot just be dismissed as a mere clash of egos.
Even after the BCCI had officially banned Mohammed Azharuddin for life, Raj Singh has gone on record saying that the former captain should be spared because of the great service he had rendered to Indian cricket in the past. Like Morarka,
The face-off between Sunil Gavaskar, arguably one of the greatest openers the game has seen, and a passionate, but by no means a fair, supporter of the game, Raj Singh Dungarpur, cannot just be dismissed as a mere clash of egos. There is undoubtedly more to it than meets the eye. Differences between the two have been brewing for some time now and what happened last Friday, at the Cricket Club of India, was an ultimate showdown that had to inevitably come one day. Dr A C Muthiah's tenure as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president
Even after the BCCI had officially banned Mohammed Azharuddin for life, Raj Singh has gone on record saying that the former captain should be spared because of the great service he had rendered to Indian cricket in the past. Like Morarka, he had openly showed dissent of a BCCI policy. When Inderjit Singh Bindra, fighting a lone battle against the ruling clique, had revealed a few unpleasant things about the high officials, he was served a charge-sheet. A more ridiculous step was that the Punjab Cricket Association, which Bindra heads, was taken off the future cricket itineraries of visiting teams.
