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Crick­et, once the pride of our re­gion and the heart­beat of our peo­ple, is be­ing qui­et­ly stran­gled—not by a lack of tal­ent or fan sup­port, but by lead­er­ship struc­tures so deeply flawed they no longer serve the game.

Across sev­er­al re­gion­al crick­et boards, gov­er­nance has col­lapsed in­to some­thing more dan­ger­ous than in­com­pe­tence: en­ti­tle­ment with­out ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Where else in pub­lic life can you fail re­peat­ed­ly, spend pub­lic funds with ze­ro over­sight, pro­duce em­bar­rass­ing re­sults—and still keep your job, year af­ter year? In crick­et ad­min­is­tra­tion, fail­ure is not on­ly tol­er­at­ed; it is pro­tect­ed and even re­ward­ed.