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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
Tour de Resilience: West Indies Take a Big Step Forward, Into the Unknown and the Known | Outside Edge
21 Jun 2020
The West Indies’ tour of England is momentous in more ways than one, coming as it does at a time where the world is battling not just a pandemic but is also in the midst of a societal upheaval.…
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
IOA and Ministry’s Quid Pro Quo Games An Embarrassment for Indian Sport
18 May 2020
The amount of aid requested by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) for restart of sports post Covid-19 lockdown, Rs. 220 crore, is only marginally less than the fund allocated for National Sports…
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 Chains Of Sport: Passion, Emotion and a Ruthless Disregard for the Worker Branded a Sportsman
01 May 2020
Big Sport has never encouraged its workforce, the athlete, to band together and unionise. Whether amateur or professional, player unions and the powers they have over the sport associations are…
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…