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Leslie Xavier
‘There’s Still Time To Fix This’ But Does the BCCI Care to Identify the Faults?
15 May 2021
Lisa Sthalekar’s tweet about the lack of support provided to Veda Krishnamurthy by the BCCI has struck the right chord, and her demand that players rally and form a union is highly commendable. But…
Leslie Xavier
IPL 2021: The Privilege of Spin When Playing a Virus That Doesn’t Discriminate
06 May 2021
Much before the positive cases and the fallout, the BCCI turned a blind eye to all shouting themselves hoarse asking it to shut down the IPL in this unprecedented time. When the cases did arrive, the…
Vaibhav Raghunandan
IPL 2021 Scrapped After Covid -19 Breaches the Bubble. But What is a Bio Bubble, Anyway?
04 May 2021
This primer is based on the author’s personal experience inside the I-League bubble in Kolkata earlier this year. We acknowledge that football isn’t cricket and a lot has changed since then. We also…
Raghu Kesavan
IPL 2021: We Have Replaced Steel in Our Moral Compass With Gold; How Can it Point North?
01 May 2021
It is a profound lack of moral sense and responsibility that brought us here. The simple maxim, “Do unto others…,” was sacrificed at the altar of this government’s relentless ambition. People can see…
Leslie Xavier
To Host And How To Host: A BCCI Primer On Negotiating Profit
30 Apr 2021
BCCI General Manager for Game Development Dhiraj Malhotra’s comments regarding the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup scheduled for later this year have left many baffled. Malhotra has insisted that India will…
Newsclick Sports Production
IPL 2021: The Value of Sport in Times of Crisis
28 Apr 2021
IPL 2021: What we expect from cricket in this time of global crisis
Leslie Xavier
IPL 2021: Of Bubbles & Men Whose Heads are Stuffed in Them
26 Apr 2021
What is it about the current season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that provokes anger? It isn’t the game itself. It is the lack of empathy, as well as the blinkered approach most cricketers and…
Newsclick Sports
Super League a Necessity, Project Not Dead: Real Madrid President Florentino Perez
22 Apr 2021
The Super League project collapsed Wednesday after eight of the 12 founding members withdrew following widespread opposition.
Leslie Xavier
IPL-Style Super League Lies Ahead for European Football
20 Apr 2021
European Super League: A similar scenario -- in a smaller scale as far as game quality and money is concerned -- had disrupted Indian football. With that experience fresh in our minds, we can only…
PTI
Heath Streak Ban: Cricket Anti Corruption Units Face New Challenge From Bitcoins
16 Apr 2021
Former Zimbabwe cricket team skipper and coach Heath Streak was banned for eight years by the International Cricket Council (ICC) Anti Corruption Unit. He was paid in bitcoins (cryptocurrency) by an…