The Big Boss

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[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]The [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]BCCI[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]'s growing clout in [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]international cricket[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,] has been likened to the hold on international affairs that the Kremlin possessed some 30 years ago. [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]India[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]'s primary sports body has made a habit of ruffling feathers - whether it's the aversion to DRS, or haraguing for an IPL window in an already choc-a-block season, or depriving [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]England[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,] of spin in a practice match or the ECB of coverage rights if it fails to cough up the demanded amount. The tilt of the power axis may have been gradual, but now, after almost a decade of autocracy, dissent has been freely forthcoming. Senior [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]sports journalist[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,] [/font][/color][url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/588838.html"]Rob Steen writes in Cricinfo[/url][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,] about the bossy trait of the BCCI, and how - in a manner not entirely advocated - the new hierarchical arrangement of international cricket administration may act as a counterbalance to years and years of racism. [/font][/color]