Rupinder SinghNew Delhi, Jan. 10 -- Olympic sports like athletics, swimming, gymnastics, or, for that matter, the Paralympic Games must have quality telecasts as a first step to nurture and produce champions.
Anyone who has followed Indian sports would know that there is only one sport that dominates the Indian sporting arena, and that too by miles, and that's cricket.
While we flounder in our progress in Olympic sports, cricket does teach us a very important lesson or two. The first real step forward in cricket was achieved by the administrative duo of Jagmohan Dalmia and Inderjit Singh Bindra, who realised that quality telecasts of the sport were vital for its popularity and progress.
They fought a battle in the Supreme Court to allow ...