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Leslie Xavier
To Be or Not to Be: Olympics No Hamlet for Cricket | Outside Edge
26 Jul 2020
Tokyo 2020, The Olympic Fortnight (Series): Cricket at the Olympics is a distant dream, or, to be accurate, a dream only for fans of the sport itself. For the governing bodies global and national,…
Leslie Xavier
The Selling of a Car and the Irrationality of Those Who Criticise It | Outside Edge
19 Jul 2020
Dutee Chand’s decision to sell her car has been met with mixed reactions across social media. The backlash first went towards the sports mechanisms in the country, who hit back at the athlete, making…
Leslie Xavier
Educate, Agitate, Communicate: Michael Holding and a Case for Rethinking the Information Age | Outside Edge
12 Jul 2020
Michael Holding’s impassioned speech on the importance of education, on the first day of the first Test between England and the West Indies, was widely lauded across the world. What he says about the…
Leslie Xavier
Shashank Redemption: The Other Side to the Anti Indian Facade of the Outgoing ICC Chairman | Outside Edge
05 Jul 2020
For all his ills as a domestic administrator, Shashank Manohar’s time as the head of the International Cricket Council (ICC) must be remembered for what it was — many reforms, progressive and…
Leslie Xavier
Post Covid-19 Cricket World Needs Better Management, Progressive Thinking and Adherence to Logic | Outside Edge
28 Jun 2020
Pakistan, the perennial unpredictables of international cricket, have been caught in a mess of positive coronavirus tests and retaken negatives. A lack of centralised planning and logical preparation…
Leslie Xavier
The Indian Premier League: A Monster That Threatens To Consume Its Maker, And Cricket Itself | Outside Edge
14 Jun 2020
The clout the BCCI holds over the International Cricket Council (ICC) is non-negotiable and obvious. The world’s richest board is trying to ensure its glamour event gets a place in the covid-19…
Leslie Xavier
Right To Play: The Unsuspecting Casualty of a Pandemic | Outside Edge
10 May 2020
For the young, sport is about indulgence, and for the old, it is a drink in hand and a big match on the telly. The latter is fun, but it is the former that sustains and fuels sport as well as a…
Leslie Xavier
A Chronicle Of Death In Sport. And Life | Outside Edge
03 May 2020
Sport is forgiving. Life and death quantified in victory and defeat. Performance quantified too, understood as results on a sheet of paper. Life is harder to describe in an equation. And so, the…
Leslie Xavier
The Price of Power: Modesty, Decadence And Inevitability | Outside Edge
26 Apr 2020
Technology, structure and infrastructure are expected to collaborate to ensure responsible governance. The truth is far from that mirage. A virus has exposed how the dispensation, be it the ruling…
Leslie Xavier
Stadiums of Silence: BCCI and Its Perennial Habit of Ignoring the Women’s Game | Outside Edge
19 Apr 2020
The IPL has been postponed indefinitely. But the BCCI won’t stop. Milking the cash cow and trying to find a place for it in a packed calendar takes precedence over sorting out the mess the pandemic…