Category: Administration

The ICC, ECB, BCCI, MCC…cricket probably has more men in suits than any other sport, and consequently more lavish lunches. I endeavour to report the best/worst of their shenanigans here.

England's second much-more-of-a-Test-than-it-used-to-be against Bangladesh has also been the first look most of us have had at the new Old Trafford conference centre, The Point. I ask, Pointedly, what do we make of it all?

Lancashire install cash Point

Lalit Modi has set out his side of the story of THAT lunch with the counties, accusing Giles Clarke of being motivated by personal dislike of the IPL Chairman. But the importance of lunch to county cricket's decision making process should not be underestimated. We reveal the hidden culture that Lalit may or may not be familiar with.

Giles Clarke & the meaning of lunch

Several of the Test Match grounds have been plotting a rebel UK Twenty20 league with Lalit Modi. English cricket is on the brink of civil war.

Civil war in English cricket

Giles Clarke always seems to have the expression of a man who has just reversed his car over the family dog. Now that some of the county ranks are threatening mutiny, he's threatening to get very cross indeed.

Captain Bligh of the ECB

The BCCI has commenced at full throttle it's campaign to convince the world, and especially the Indian tax authorities, that it wasn't even in the room when Lalit was being naughty, and that it definitely was nothing to do with them.

BCCI: “I was dead at the time”

Lalit Modi's publicly stated ambition for the IPL was for it to become bigger than football's Premier League. A short time later and he has accomplished his ambition, but not in the manner he had in mind.

Modi’s IPL ambition achieved

The Indian media are reporting that Lalit Modi will today resign his position as IPL Chairman after his part in the financial scandal that has cost an Indian minister his job and led to a full investigation of IPL finances by Indian tax authorities.

Will Lalit Modi resign today?

There has been renewed press speculation that the 2012 Olympic stadium could be used for cricket once The Torch has begun it’s four-year crawl in the general direction of Rio.

Naturally, the ECB and surrounding counties say they know nothing about it.

Cricket at Olympic stadium?

Do me a favour, and take a look out of the nearest window. There may well be a winged hog somewhere in the vicinity. Meanwhile, in the cricket world, a county chairman has been heard saying the things that Giles Clarke gets paid to sweep under the carpet: English cricket is as anachronistic as the crew of USS Enterprise strolling around the Wild West.

Somerset get the benefit of Champions League

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