Ian Chappell pens the prototypical "Contractual Obligation Column" for cricinfo, essentially saying nothing of any great worth or interest, yet somehow managing to pump out 700 words of it. Speaking of the need for players and administrators to cooperate, Chappell tell us that the game needs "both short and long-term plans", and that any cricket model should "run smoothly and economically, with a minimum of tinkering." Really Ian, you think? Thank god you were here to let us know.
This is the passage the editors chose to excerpt, so you can imagine how mesmerising the rest of the article must have been:
Players and
administrators have to first decide what it is they are trying to achieve with
each form of the game and then ensure that all three dovetail to produce the
best and most viable international product.
(The entire article reminds me a little of a
hack politician's stock speech, packed with those fuzzy focus-group buzzwords: hope,
values, pride, freedom. In Chappelli-speak, these simply
become vision, engagement, and a new model. Bland,
inoffensive, and, by this point, completely meaningless.)
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