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The IPL mess
Oct 11, 2010: 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?
The IPL mess
Amin a contrast to flamboyant Modi
Apr 26, 2010: 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.
BCCI bitten by its own buzzword
Apr 25, 2010: The BCCI under Sharad Pawar's presidency has made a mockery of the vision document it released in 2005
Apr 14, 2010: The Kochi franchise ruckus may finally force the BCCI into being transparent. About time too
What about the arm around the shoulder?
Feb 16, 2010: Ravindra Jadeja's ban by the IPL raises the question: do our young cricketers have the sort of support system they need?
Jan 23, 2010: It's not easy to assign blame for the fiasco over the exclusion of Pakistani players from the third season of the IPL
Aug 6, 2009: The Indian board's foot-dragging and muscle-flexing over the drug-testing issue is typical
May 3, 2009: How did the most glamorous team in the IPL become a cautionary tale only halfway into the season?
Oct 2, 2008: 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
May 8, 2008: Success is everything and all else be damned. The IPL has brought football-style despotism into cricket
The Harbhajan-Sreesanth spat
Apr 27, 2008: To anyone who has followed Indian cricket in the past few months, Friday night's incident was inevitable
Feb 11, 2008: The IPL's biggest competition in India may come from an unexpected quarter - the English Premier League
Aug 20, 2007: The BCCI faces a problem largely of its own making because it has sown the seeds for the ICL to flourish. But the solution, too, lies in its own hands
Wake up and smell the opportunity
Jul 25, 2007: The ICL may just be a blessing in disguise for the BCCI. Pity they don't seem to be able to recognise it
Apr 3, 2007: The launch of a "parallel" league in India should, one way or another, be good news for Indian cricket
Mar 26, 2007: Unfit and overweight, India's one-day cricketers are being muscled off the park
What happens to the game itself?
Dec 10, 2006: A billion or so dollars will pour into cricket ... but at what cost?
Nov 3, 2006: Top professionals, as the Indian team are, must be inspired by something other than the lucrative financial incentives the BCCI is planning
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Switch Hit: The visitors' Ashes preparations continue to thrive, while Australia are in disarray. How much longer can this last?
'I got sick of being called courageous'
Colin McDonald, who turns 82 today, looks back at the good old days, when the bowling was fierce but the sledging wasn't
Where does Pakistan cricket go from here?
Time Out: Sanjay Manjrekar, Osman Samiuddin and Harsha Bhogle discuss the Zulqarnain Haider controversy and other issues
Osman Samiuddin: There's plenty in his story that does not compute, but equally there is the fact that he wouldn't have given up his career if his claims weren't serious
Why Australia can win the Ashes 5-0
Inbox: Part 4 - Ben Hilfenhaus' adaptable bowling
Harbhajan ruins New Zealand's best-laid plans
The visitors had choked the Indian top-order by denying the singles, but Harbhajan's onslaught left them demoralised
Tendulkar's blood-rush and Harbhajan's selflessness
Plays of the Day from the third day of the second Test between India and New Zealand in Hyderabad
'Nothing beats playing at home'
Fourteen years into his career, VVS Laxman is finally set to play his first Test in Hyderabad
'One of the most undignified incidents in Test history'
At Perth in November 1981, Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad were involved in an incident which tarnished not only their reputations, but also the image of Test cricket
Harbhajan goes wild and McCullum strikes a pose
Plays of the Day from the fourth day of the second Test between India and New Zealand in Hyderabad
'One of the most undignified incidents in Test history' (167)
At Perth in November 1981, Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad were involved in an incident which tarnished not only their reputations, but also the image of Test cricket
Do we have the right to call for their retirements or should we let their dramas play themselves out?
Flat pitch can't hide India's bowling woes (62)
The Hyderabad pitch may have been great for batting, but that shouldn't overshadow India's bowling problems
New Zealand's grit holds them in good stead (56)
Their collective tenacity and professionalism has helped the visitors match up to the challenge of playing the world's No. 1 team
What makes sportsmen go corrupt? (52)
Cricketers and other sports heroes build their careers on reputations. Why do many of them risk throwing it all away?
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