of events i continue to be appalled and outraged the defaulting ceo had conspired with the chief administrator to embarrass me and pass on the blame for his own misdoings to me in a meeting and had shared his plans with a journalisteven more hurtful was that rai pretended to be on my side only a couple of hours earlier and conducted himself in the meeting along the lines his ceo had scripted for him even when he knew all the facts he sayskumar also writes that with anurag thakur who had a tight leash on johri gone the ceo gradually came into his own johri who had political clout with a powerful central minister backing him became the blueeyed boy of raiaccording to the author the main focus of cricket administrators in india should be to ensure that help monetary or otherwise for struggling players at the lower level needing aid reaches only the deservingkumar also writes that indian fans really get a raw dealthere is hardly a stadium that can boast of a worldclass spectating facility with clean toilets availability of hygienic food and refreshments clean drinking water parking facilities smooth accessibility firefighting equipment and so on end of the day it is on account of the fans that the board generates enormous revenue but sadly nobody cares for themthe socalled cricket administrators most of whom have never held a cricket ball or bat in their lives end up as the main beneficiaries of the monies earned by cricket in this country at the expense of the fans of the game and the players he sayson legalising betting kumar writes i have always had reservations about this point of view first no political party in power would risk legalising betting in sports it would be widely perceived as giving legal sanction to gambling which is otherwise a criminal offencebut the political fallout of such a move would be substantial and therefore it is unlikely to happen any time soon more importantly even if the government legalises betting how many bettors would come forward to place their wagers using white money