Surprising move deserving top prize

I thought of writing to you when I heard that you had dissolved the Board that controls Cricket. Of course it came as a surprise to all of us because we all thought you would only just watch and wait while a few people controlled the game.

And by all means Kiri, you take the top prize for the element of surprise. There you were on Tuesday happily smiling on the podium alongside the former boss who was enthusiastically singing your praises. And the very next day, you come up with some excuse of the accounts not being in order and sack the whole lot- Brutus would have blushed, I assure you.

Anyway, as you rightly said, the game was bigger than Captain Cool, the sacked boss and Sonna boy put together! But Kiri, you must be careful. This chap- the one who lost his job- is not the type of person who gives up easily. And remember, he took on Satellite's uncle and won and he had Seeni Bola well and truly on his side. Why, lately he even sacked Captain Cool's brother and got away with it! So, you have taken on someone who will fight all the way, Kiri, and you will have to be careful. But Kiri cold you not have dropped a hint that you wanted you-know-who's resignation? May be he would have obliged. In fact that was what happened in the other Board recently, where another former cricketer is trying hard to clear his name now. 

Then Kiri, since you have gone this far, can't you devise some method where you will be able to sack umpires for favouring visiting teams, especially the local chaps? And you must definitely have a scheme where you are able to sack commentators who are biased in favour of visiting teams. Why, with regard to the umpires and commentators in the recent English tour, it was as if we were playing on foreign soil! Cricket, they say is a game of glorious uncertainties.

But the future of the game was looking increasingly uncertain. Maybe now, with men of integrity at the top, that will change. 

Anyway, Kiri best of luck, you are going to need it.

Yours truly,

Punchi Putha.

PS- Then there is this issue about the accounts not being in order, Kiri. Now, that is a dangerous principle to adopt. Just imagine, if one were to sack the bosses of all the government institutions in which the books have not been balanced properly, all hell would break loose. Why, even the entire government couldn't balance its books last year or so the professor told us during the Budget. So, whom should we sack, Kiri, the two deputy ministers- the professor and Seeni Bola- or Satellite herself who, after all is the minister in charge of the state coffers?

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