The post might have sounded different had Mr.Mallya’s outburst been sincere. There’s no denying that he is a brilliant businessman but the nature of his profit making ventures does leave a room for his detractors’ views.

I believe Dravid was forced to play kallis since he had no other option for the fifth bowler.

Regarding Dravid’s culpability in RCB’s failure, Dravid was given the responsibility of picking the team. He went ahead with the logic(and I quote Mallya before the start of IPL here) that players who have proven themselves in Tests can perform anywhere. Now this is totally rubbish. And also talented players like White, Misbah and Taylor were not played in many games which is captain’s decision. And before i forget Kallis was bought for an exorbitant amount and have been given many games inpite of him looking extremely uncomfortable in this format. I give it to you that the local talent of RCB is one of the weakest but even there i would blame Dravid to some extent for not identifying his requirements properly.

Regarding Vijay Mallya’s reaction, you have to understand that he is a businessman and for him RCB is a business. In corporate world if u delegate a responsibility to someone and it is not executed properly then no amount of excuses will be heard. Dravid as the person responsible for selection and captaincy has to take the blame(not all of it but part of it atleast. Rmr tht the person who has been fired was the CEO. The captain is still there). And regarding his business acumen… come on man… he owns Kingfisher, Royal Challenge and McDowells. He makes more than enuff money on them. For him Force India is a publicity investment and Kingfisher airlines is with an eye on future(Lets analyse Kinfisher airlines returns abt 10 years down the line). His behaviour might come across as disgraceful in cricket world but i think its totally fair in business. Whether Cricket and Business should be mixed or not is another decision altogether.