Overhaul sports administration to align governance with sporting success

The Khel Ratna and Dronacharya awards could be supplemented with, for example, a Bhishma award for sports administrators

The Indian Men’s Cricket team’s recent performance is being analysed threadbare in drawing-room conversations. As often happens after losses, cricket becomes a game of blame. Players, umpires, grounds, and sometimes even coaches and managers become the unfortunate recipients of the drawing-room analysts’ ire. Poor performance in these conversations is associated more with poor intentions and ineptitude of the same people who were extolled as superhuman a few weeks ago. 

 

How can a brilliant captain in one domain perform so poorly in another? Or, for that matter, how can a great talent known for perseverance and focus suddenly reverse character? Ask