New Delhi: Today, Mr. John Keeplan on behalf of Cricket Australia (CA) filed a FIR against BCCI, for violating seven patents owned by Cricket Australia. According to the FIR, BCCI is accused of using Cricket Australia’s intellectual property without obtaining the required permissions.
The FIR states that Cricket Australia has taken this extreme step after BCCI did not respond to the request of Cricket Australia for crediting and paying royalty to it for the use of its patents. According to Cricket Australia, its patents played a pivotal role in the current success of the Indian cricket team
When asked about the nature of patent violation committed by BCCI, Mr. Keeplan replied, ”Let me put it this way. Cricket Australia is the Apple Inc of cricket. We invented quite a few groundbreaking things to enhance our position in the market, while BCCI acted like Microsoft by illegally copying all our good stuff. The sole reason of improved performance of Indian team has been the knowhow painstakingly developed by Cricket Australia over the past several years.”
In reply to whether Cricket Australia has any proof of BCCI using it patents, Mr. Keenan replied,” Well guys, I didn’t want to say it, but the truth is BCCI has blatantly abused Cricket Australia’s patents. Do you remember reading the articles that told you how Indian team had created a plan to become world’s top test playing nation? They all said this plan was created under the aegis of Anil Kumble when India was touring Australia. Anil Kumble created this plan in Australia, against Australia and by using Australian tactics."
"We have got enough proof that Anil Kumble is a copycat who uses Australian methods to deliver some of his finest performances. Do you remember the last edition of IPL? Vijay Malliya showed complete trust in Kevin Peterson. Now you tell me how a player can shine if the owner of your team thinks Kevin Peterson is the only solution to his team’s woes. Do you think Vijay Malliya spent millions just to buy an IPL franchise because he knew few cricketers himself and had no knowledge of cricket?"
"The truth is Anil Kumble copied the tactics of an Australian i.e. Shane Warne to take his team to the finals. In fact, Bangalore Royal Challengers might have won the IPL if the Deccan Changers hadn't been lead by an Australian i.e. Adam Gilchrist. Adam Gilchrist knew all the Australian tactics used by Anil *copycat* Kumble and ensured that his team won IPL-2 by sacrificing his wicket in the first over."
"This isn't all. BCCI has time and again proved that it's a very bad corporate citizen having very poor ethics. Greg Chappell was enjoying his retirement when they offered him the job of coaching Indian cricket team. Greg, the poor guy just walked into the trap thinking it was a golden opportunity. We all know the politics that was played during the Greg-Ganguly controversy and how after extracting every piece of information on how Australia consistently plays great cricket, Greg Chappell was publicly humiliated and dumped by BCCI.
"After Greg Chappell left, BCCI found several errors in the plan submitted by him to make India the best cricketing team in the world. Guess now what BCCI did? Do you remember few days back Ian Chappell said on Cricinfo that India doesn't have champion bowlers? Who said he was wrong? It was Dennis Lillie. Yes, the former Australian pace spearhead. Do you know why Dennis Lillie said that? Because he is working as consultant in BCCI’s MRF Pace Academy. Yes, BCCI is using a former star employee of Cricket Australia to extract the secret knowledge that is required to make India the best cricket team in the world. Have you ever wondered how despite having turning wickets, India is suddenly able to produce several good pace bowlers but very few quality spinners? I accept poaching is a reality in the corporate world but the shameless use of it by BCCI makes them stink.”
In reply to the question - 'Why did Cricket Australia wait so long for suing BCCI?' by a reporter, Mr. Keenan said, ”I will not lie to you. Yes we could have sued BCCI much earlier but we didn’t. My answer to your question is just two words: John Howard. Please try to understand that India is the Godzilla of cricket. Our former Australian Prime Minister couldn’t have become chairman of ICC without BCCI’s support.”
Note: We couldn’t report the BCCI’s side of the story because BCCI still doesn’t have a website from where we could obtain email ids of its office bearers. A tweet send to @lalitkmodi was still unanswered when this article went into publication.
