As 2008 comes to an end, Kadambari Murali Wade in the Hindustan Times has her wishlist for the BCCI and hopes the world's richest cricket body will wake up and address five pressing issues, including better TV production and having a 24-hour helpline for handling player stress.

You talk of transparency and accountability. So we ask you this --- are you really looking closely at what your state associations do with the double digit crores each gets annually as a share of TV rights, etc? Have you checked on the membership clauses, and how many relatives, even the personal staff of a secretary/president of an association, are voting members? Don't you find it strange that certain state units dole out almost monthly salaries in the range of Rs 50,000-100,000 as D.A. to their office-bearers? Or that others have elections after years? Or does nothing matter more than doling out favours for votes?