{"id":251334,"date":"2023-07-08T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251334"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:34:18","slug":"choice-is-theirs-bcci-puts-unfair-restrictions-on-men-cricketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/choice-is-theirs-bcci-puts-unfair-restrictions-on-men-cricketers\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice is theirs: BCCI puts unfair restrictions on men cricketers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cChoice is theirs: BCCI puts unfair restrictions on men cricketers\u201d <\/strong>published in the <strong>\u201cThe Times of India\u201d <\/strong>on <strong>8th July 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> GS2- Government policies and interventions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance-<\/strong> Issues related to sports administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>News-<\/strong> The article explains the issue of male players regarding BCCI restrictions on their overseas business<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the concerns of male cricketers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Women cricketers can do business overseas without<strong> jeopardising their career.<\/strong> Their male counterparts are denied that right. Male cricketers must retire from all forms of domestic cricket to get that opportunity. This is unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports indicate that the BCCI is thinking about <strong>cooling off periods<\/strong> for retired players before they look for overseas opportunities. Cooling off makes sense in <strong>sensitive areas such as the military or government<\/strong> to prevent <strong>conflicts of interest.<\/strong> But it is not the case with cricket.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the way forward for better career prospects for male cricketers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>England and Australia allow their players to find the <strong>balance between club contacts and national duty<\/strong>. It\u2019s a r<strong>ealistic approach<\/strong>. <strong>Peak earning potential<\/strong> for a cricketer is limited to a few years.<\/p>\n<p>BCCI should take a<strong> pragmatic approach<\/strong> and leave it to active players to decide about their business contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cChoice is theirs: BCCI puts unfair restrictions on men cricketers\u201d published in the \u201cThe Times of India\u201d on 8th July 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Government policies and interventions Relevance- Issues related to sports administration News- The article explains the issue of male players regarding BCCI restrictions on their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/choice-is-theirs-bcci-puts-unfair-restrictions-on-men-cricketers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Choice is theirs: BCCI puts unfair restrictions on men cricketers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[300,212,10496],"class_list":["post-251334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704857332},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}