Bang Galore
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So You admit that GoI is using cricket for political purposes & diplomatic arm twisting ?
No arm twisting, it's only cricket after all but definitely as a means to show displeasure.
Interesting but India did need Pakistan's agreement for the Big 3 affair, not only India but England & Australia. If India really didn't need Pakistan then why make a request for Pakistan to tour India ?
India doesn't need but if PCB continues to insist, BCCI would have to make pro forma noises.
Sri Lanka is as much prone to the corruption you are hinting at as UAE. The refusal to play outside of UAE was an attempt to placate the domestic constituency & as a means to dissuade Pakistan as well. If the series goes ahead then the point to highlight for a political consumption is that look we played on our own terms and if Pakistan refuses to them we can tell the ECB ( the mediator here in absence of ICC ) is look we made an offer but they refused themselves.
This is not the GoI's doing as much as it is the BCCI's. You may believe what you wish.
No, Pakistani players playing in IPL post 26/11 would have presented a security challenge for the BCCI premier event & offered no financial benefit what so ever. Where as the home series that Pakistan gave up on BCCI's request did provide a big financial benefit to BCCI. It was basically PCB who gave up its money to the bigger & wealthier BCCI.
BCCI will make money & that is their interest but they have no overwhelming reason that requires a Pakistani tour.
Despite what you hear & may believe PCB isn't so desperate that without this series it would go bankrupt. It's insisting because BCCI had agreed to a series in December 2015 but then gave no answer & upon an enquiry ( pretty straight forward & reason able thing to do ) by PCB asking BCCI whether they were playing or not the BCCI chief invited his counter part over for discussions but found himself helpless & embarrassed by RSS. That incident has worked in our favour no matter which way you look at it & it's being used for political & diplomatic mileage.
That is not what the PCB themselves have been saying nor does it gel with the facts. If it was not about the money, the PCB would not have repeatedly kept asking. The BCCI president does have to make his noises, the final decision is the GoI's. (btw, you are confusing the RSS with the Shiv Sena, they are not the same thing)
The only reason you are seeing or what you perceive as insistence ( or begging ) is because of the undue importance given to cricket as a means of diplomacy. The old man leading our cricket board is a career diplomat. NS knows that Modi has to appear strong & has domestic compulsions where as he doesn't.
Modi has the 54 inch chest image to worry & NS is after the peace maker image.
Excuses for begging are many as are the reasons given to pacify oneself.
All this bravado on your side & this apparently meek response on our side is working in our favour to help balance this image that MMS & his team so brilliantly built up in your favour.
Nope. Nobody cares and India's image will depend on its economy & not on what its relationship with Pakistan is.