Review: All in a Day's Cricket

Dyed in sepia

Oct 19, 2013: Controversy, romanticism, derring-do and idiosyncrasy - a recent anthology takes us on an evocative ride through cricket's past

The Business of Cricket

Understanding the biz

Jul 1, 2011: There has been far too little analysis of the economics of the game in India, its financial nerve centre. This book makes a start

Sachin: Genius Unplugged

A mixed bag of tributes

May 1, 2011: There isn't much new that you can write about a man who gives up so little about himself

What has cricket given Indian pop culture?

Mar 7, 2011: Cricket is omnipresent in India, but the films that reference the sport have mostly been banal, the ads star-obsessed, and fiction bordering on nil

Ten Years After Cronje

Cricket and the lure of betting

Jul 15, 2010: Each IPL game fetches upwards of £10 million in legal bets. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Will legalising betting in India end the fixing menace once and for all?

The IPL mess

Efforts on to force Modi's resignation

Apr 25, 2010: Monday's Governing Council meeting is certain to go ahead without Lalit Modi and the only question is whether he will jump or be pushed

The IPL mess

IPL players' salaries face taxman's scrutiny

Apr 23, 2010: The Indian income-tax department is believed to be acting on information of certain IPL players receiving illegal payments from their employers

The IPL and the limits of the free market

Apr 13, 2010: The Ravindra Jadeja verdict suggests the IPL is attempting to put in place checks on player power in an effort to protect the league's interests

Pass the gravy

Mar 30, 2010: There's a lot of silly money flying around in the IPL: Indian players will benefit, but it's a little more complicated for the franchises

The screen-eyed monster

Dec 23, 2009: The 2000s saw cricket's television economy grow unprecedentedly and begin to dictate terms like never before

The IPL and the art of management

Jun 6, 2009: Empowered CEOs, messianic evangelists, all-powerful coaches - the IPL threw up a number of leadership styles

Psst ... Chappell's got a secret

Sep 28, 2008:

India

Ganguly's gangplank

Sep 12, 2008: Having said that, we’re about to enter a long and interesting Test match season – and it would be appropriate and fitting for Ganguly to walk out after a gripping innings in an international match, at the peak of his authority, having taken his own

ICC

An opportunity to bury a dead horse

Aug 25, 2008: The Champions' Trophy is an unwanted extra on the international cricket stage, irrespective of whether it is played in Pakistan or India, Australia or England

England

Kevin on top

Aug 5, 2008: The refusal to surrender, the arresting arrogance, the almost imperious self-belief – it reminded me of Douglas Jardine

Sri Lanka

The Serendip sensibility

Jul 26, 2008:

India

Batting from memory

Jun 25, 2008: The welter of emotions that June 25, 1983, triggers within me – or, indeed, a few million others of my generation, give or take some years – is too personal and too complex to adequately convey to someone much younger or from another country or

The Administrators

Play, or else ...

Jun 22, 2008: While the whole world is threatened by terrorism, Jaipur and London were one-off incidents

IPL

The write stuff

Jun 12, 2008: People who had never read Neville Cardus were weeping in his memory

India

This month, that miracle

Jun 1, 2008: On June 25, 1983, India won the Prudential Cup