The former Mysore MP, Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, has given an interview to R. Kaushik of Deccan Herald today, on his campaign for the presidentship of the Karnataka State Cricket Associations, elections for which are due on Sunday, September 9.
# “Even during my playing days, being from the mofussil, we were always the underdogs. The Bangalore boys, they were always the blue-eyed boys. The KSCA could be headed by someone from the mofussils. You will then know the problems players from the mofussil areas face better than someone sitting in Bangalore. I looked at the whole thing from the perspective of a mofussil player.
# “We are running an institution here that is promoting sports, and promoting the most popular sport in the country. We have to be responsible, you can’t behave like it is your jaagir. The present set-up thinks it is its own jaagir, which is not right.
# “I firmly believe the colours of the KSCA should be the colours of the State flag—red and yellow.”
Read the full interview here: Gearing up for the big challenge
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KSCA should also focus on building stadiums in other places of the state. a small state like kerala has more than one stadium – so has TN, andhra, maharashtra. karnataka must be the onl country wiht only one stadium of intl quality. maybe there should be a stadium for intl matches planned in one or 2 cities like – mysooru, hubballi, mangalooru, etc
life comes a full circle, brijesh patel before coming to power 9 yrs ago had heaped load full of charges against MR. nagaraj, after he assumed charge started the conversion of KSCA into BRIJESH PATEL AND SINDHI MARWARI INC LIMITED. good players were sidelined. off late good players are coming from coorg district but sadly no efforts were made to improve facilities in kodagu.
wodeyar ,mallya deadly kannadiga combo should win the KSCA elections,all the best.
Build an international level stadium in Hassan. That will take care of the matter. Then KA will be on par with the rest. And for good measure, build ones in Gulbarga and Gadag.
Dear All,
Change is good! It is time for Brijesh Patel to go home! While we are all worried about KSCA, why don’t we build small stadiums where kids/youth can play soccer? Cricket is best confined to metros–I don’t like to see its evil influence seeping into the rural youth.
Forget all these……..lets start supporting the ICL. Afterall BCCI is a club and so is KSCA. The team now playing in England is NOT the Indian team but of a club called BCCI.
Dr Ramesh – I support you on the Coorg Front! .
Whats this bullshit about Mofussil vs. City cricket. The KSCA should promote merit irrespective of where a player is from. Wadiyar or Patel I doubt cricket will improve. It is all about self interest and total ignorance on cricket development.
Well it is Wadiyar & Patel !
Dr. Ramesh – it is a chow chow bath !
Good news, Rathnajeevi !!
Agree that merit should be the prime reason for selection.
Equally HH is right when he says that the KSCA is very Bangalore centric.
The ‘mofussil’ players who played for Karnataka can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Javagal Srinath, Dodda Ganesh, Sunil Joshi. I might have missed a few, but there can’t be many more.
Having gone for U-15, U-17 selections in Hubli Dharwad, I know for a fact that very few came thro.
A ‘keeping contemporary of mine, Mohan Madaiah, was advised to shift to one of the Bangalore clubs if he wanted to progress in his career. He did so, however that did not prevent the stigma of his being a ‘mofussil’ player and after being on the fringes for a few years, he faded away.
So, Jai to HH’s efforts to represent all of Karnataka.
Let us not politicise the issue. There can be sports in politics but not politics in sports.Like in Chak De India,let us call ourselves as Indians first,then Kannadiga,Tamilian Malayalee etc.Let us grow above all these.
Now that the elections are over. The office bearers should shed their differences and work for the growth of the game as cricket is a gentleman’s game afterall.
It is very sad that cricket in Karnataka in particular, and India in general, has gone into the hands of murky politicians and businessmen.
Mr. Brijesh Patel, who took charge of Karnataka about 9 yrs ago, is too one among those. What has he done really apart from conducting cricket tournaments? Has T20/KPL done anything good in particular to harness the tremendous rural talent available in each and every part of Karnataka?
I think its time to split Karnataka cricket administration into two. One shall be exclusively for Bangalore district, where people like Brijesh can realise their personal commercial dreams.
This will also allow his son Udit Patel to hang along in the team. He can also permit non-Karnataka players to represent Bangalore without any hiccups.
And the other body should be for looking after the rest of the Karnataka. This will at least allow players from other parts of Karnataka to represent the State.