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Even before this Sunday's ICC teleconference decision day , South Africa have backed out of the Champions Trophy : CSA studied security in Pakistan and plans for the event, along with reports from the South African government. South African Cricketers...
Much electronic ink has been refreshed on the topic of the Champions Trophy and playing in Pakistan. Here's Amit Bajaj's take on the contrast between the BCCI and ACA : The ACA has given more weightage to the report given by Reg Dickason, based...
He's back! Watch out everyone, Dalmiya has won the election for President of the Cricket Association of Bengal. And he's said that the IPL has been an amazing success story . Lalit Modi has better watch himself. The Times of India has been quoting...
It's a convoluted piece of logic, to be sure. Apparently the BCCI has seen fit to tell Indian players not to play for any teams that have ICL players in them: "The BCCI has advised its players to stay away from counties that have ICL players...
The English media and the ECB, on behalf of English touring fans, have been complaining about the tour itinerary in India later this year : The England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Monday it was upset that India's regular Test venues like...
The ICC has compromised again on the Zimbabwe question. In terms of the internal voting bloc logic the decision certainly makes sense. From the BCCI's point of view, that is. Here's Kevin Mitchell for the Guardian on the moral argument : While...
Clearly New Zealand were robbed of a victory against England in the recent ODI: The New Zealanders were desperate to complete the 20th over, which would have allowed them to win under the Duckworth/Lewis regulations if they had scored seven further runs...
Andy Bull interviewed Allen Stanford and lived to tell a tale about intimidation and money ...40 odd billion of it: With money and power come natural charisma. Stanford commands through more than just his cash. He has presence, the kind that stops the...
Amit Varma pursues a favourite theme on the IPL. That big money brings accountability : What the IPL setup guarantees is that it isn't just Vijay Mallya's players who are accountable to him - Mallya himself is accountable to the market. If Mallya...
Tarun writes about Vijay Mallya's sacking of Charu Sharma from a labour law perspective : But the point is that corporatization is rearing its very ugly head in cricket and an out of form player is now under the same kind of threat as any other employee...
Harbhajan Singh slaps Sreesanth after an IPL game. Or did he? Ducking Beamers has the story about hierarchy just right: ...More than one observer has noted the strict hierarchy that exists in South Asian teams, with junior players required to slavishly...
Press agencies are trying to put pressure on the BCCI by refusing to cover the IPL . No regular bloggers are covering this. Why? Is it okay to go ahead and talk about the IPL games? What happened to the whole idea of new media? On the other hand, Brendon...
BCCI relaxes some of the media restrictions for the IPL. Livemint frames the money issue at the heart of this: Essentially, the underlying principle in both instances is the same. Seeking to maximize their revenues, the cricket authorities in both countries...
Shoaib will fight the five year ban in court. Dileep calls it an outrage . Jagadish examines the extent of the ban . King Cricket seems ambivalent about the ban at best. Q says it's not over , but recommends an entertainment career in India anyway...
Welcome to the Cover Points blog. My aim here is to cover some of the wonderful writing going on in the blogging world. Consider it a daily blog round-up. There's plenty of celebration of Sehwag's monumental innings , of course. But perhaps it's...