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Cricket braces for a rollercoaster ride

Over the next few weeks the world of cricket will be dominated by the Indian Premier League, a radically new tournament that could change the game forever

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Market rules, ok

Success is everything and all else be damned. The IPL has brought football-style despotism into cricket

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A time bomb waiting to go off

To anyone who has followed Indian cricket in the past few months, Friday night's incident was inevitable

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Many questions, no answers

India's selectors had a lot of explaining to do, particularly about the inclusion of Sourav Ganguly, but there was no open, transparent media interaction

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Anatomy of Kolkata's disaster

How did the most glamorous team in the IPL become a cautionary tale only halfway into the season?

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Anatomy of Kolkata's disaster

How did the most glamorous team in the IPL become a cautionary tale only halfway into the season?

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BCCI v the world

The Indian board's foot-dragging and muscle-flexing over the drug-testing issue is typical

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The gospel according to John Buchanan

The former Kolkata and Australia coach lays out his vision for Twenty20, but don't expect the inside story on KKR's disastrous second season

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What football and basketball can teach cricket

The influx of big money into cricket in the last decade has parallels in other sports; there are lessons to be found there as well

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A case of misplaced outrage

It's not easy to assign blame for the fiasco over the exclusion of Pakistani players from the third season of the IPL

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What about the arm around the shoulder?

Ravindra Jadeja's ban by the IPL raises the question: do our young cricketers have the sort of support system they need?

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From yarn to yawn

The blog was the sensation of the second season of the IPL. The book seems an unwieldy, long-winded cash-in

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Enough with the secrecy

The Kochi franchise ruckus may finally force the BCCI into being transparent. About time too

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BCCI bitten by its own buzzword

The BCCI under Sharad Pawar's presidency has made a mockery of the vision document it released in 2005

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Amin a contrast to flamboyant Modi

The new IPL chairman brings to the table inscrutability, a low profile, a respectability and credibility among his peers, professional competence and an aversion to controversy.

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An opportunity for a clean-up

The scrapping of two IPL franchises just may be the opportunity the league needs to fashion itself as a world-class enterprise, but will the BCCI take it up?

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Blame the BCCI, not Gavaskar and Shastri

The two commentators are merely the messengers. The problem is with the medium and the message, and the board wants to control all three

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The IPL and Lalit Modi

The map of Indian and international cricket was reorganised when a previously unknown BCCI official came up with a franchise-based Twenty20 model

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Give Tendulkar the benefit of the doubt

Leadership hasn't been his strength but statesmanship has come almost naturally to him

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Finally, a winning script

A city that has long lived on the fringes of sporting success has finally hit the headlines for the right reasons

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