Originally Posted by sniper52520:
“Don't the BCCI censor their commentators? I can't imagine sky wanting to show coverage where their commentators can't speak their mind on issues like the DRS. I also can't imagine the likes of Athers, Nass, Bumble, and Botham liking being restricted on what they can the say.
I remember a few years Ian Chappell refusing to do commentary in India for the above reasons.”
To be honest it is starting to be a myth and a lot of the so called censorship won't affect the english commentators.
should be remembered Holding did work for Star sports when WI toured and the guy will never work for any broadcaster that had any type of censorship.
from what I understand the commentators can't criticise the BCCI or start talking about the politic of the ICC, nothing cricket related is censored and vast majority of the time none of those two will be mentioned in the broadcast anyway.
Ian chappell made a mountain out of a mole hill and has to be remembered his brother had a terrible time as an Indian coach and still tend to be bitter this day about his time as an Indian coach, still attacks Dravid, Ganguly, Tendulkar for him getting sacked at his job.
Really can't see nasser, Bumble, Athers and beefy being restricted in what they can say in the broadcast considering they wouldn't know about the BCCI politics to actually comment on it and they never really speak about ICC politics on Sky anyway so why would they mention it in India.
Anyway BCCI is a different place to what it was 4 years ago since N srinivisan been removed and Anurag thakur in charge and really they both have different ideologies and thakur and the current ICC president shashank manohar isn't controlling of the media like Srinivisan was and can't see the censorship being in place with them two running BCCI in recent times.
Censorship was only really in place so N Srinivisan could hide that he was losing power and control of the BCCI plus make the big 3 coup sound good or hidden in the mainstream media.
BCCI can be very political at times and really run by MP and powerful men and really a lot of it doesn't have to be mentioned when the cricket is being played.