2 http://www.espncricinfo.com Visit Cricinfo.com for up-to-the-minute cricket news, breaking cricket news, live cricket commentary, ball-by-ball commentary, cricket video, cricket audio and features. (c)Cricinfo en-gb http://i.imgci.com/espncricinfo/espnci.png http://www.espncricinfo.com/ Their predecessors in the position had short reigns but Graeme Smith's team might just be the real deal http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/624650.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/624650.html Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:32:24 GMT Cricket's governing body has long been a fiefdom board presidents use to serve their countries' interests. It's time it became a modern policy-making institution instead http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/533875.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/533875.html Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:11:17 GMT Many premature reports of its death later, the five-day game still stands, a byword for excellence in an era that encourages, and even worships, mass mediocrity http://www.espncricinfo.com/thebig_2000_test/content/story/519422.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/thebig_2000_test/content/story/519422.html Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:25:35 GMT CA needs to focus on developing proper cricketers, but it seems too much in thrall to the needs of Twenty20 to care http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/519371.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/519371.html Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:31:47 GMT Ireland deserve to participate in the 2015 World Cup. That the ICC executive board wishes to freeze them out reflects a new phase in the game's global evolution http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/512800.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/512800.html Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:48:05 GMT Players are expected to follow a code of conduct. But is there one such for those who govern the game? Self-regulation is no longer a solution to corruption in cricket http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/498604.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/498604.html Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:14:48 GMT Australians used to pride themselves on having the best cricket governance. Not anymore, now that the board seems bent on casting itself as a marketing organisation that dabbles in the game on the side http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/497175.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/497175.html Mon, 02 May 2011 08:03:28 GMT Form or intuition - what does one go by when picking a team to back for the Ashes? Both Australia and England seem vulnerable this time round http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/484727.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/484727.html Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:04:20 GMT The tendency to blame external elements for every problem - as seen in Ijaz Butt's recent utterances - can only be countered by making governance more transparent and being serious about conflicts of interest http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/479042.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/479042.html Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:29:25 GMT It's no wonder there's match-fixing in the modern game, with its environment of easy money and pervasive maladministration http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/475153.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/475153.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:21:50 GMT To be legit, democracy needs to meet certain preconditions. In cricket, legitimacy is something the boards have been happy to overlook, as shown by the Howard affair http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/465926.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/465926.html Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:23:49 GMT John Howard has been knocked back - and knocked back without even an opportunity to address the rejectionists http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/465571.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/465571.html Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:16:24 GMT Those railing against the former Australian PM are not shining examples of rectitude themselves http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/463737.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/463737.html Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:52:04 GMT Why isn't it a scandal that the BCCI spends just 8% of its revenue on actual cricket promotion? And are the other boards any better? http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/460861.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/460861.html Mon, 31 May 2010 03:03:36 GMT The Stewart Regan email shows that cricket suffers from administrators frustrated with and contemptuous of the game they have been entrusted with http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/459095.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/459095.html Tue, 11 May 2010 03:18:03 GMT Thinking of cricket purely as a brand will only impede the clean-up the BCCI needs to undertake in the wake of the IPL mess http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/458527.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/458527.html Thu, 06 May 2010 06:03:00 GMT The IPL has always been a candidate for Enron-sized corruption. Modi operated with impunity, and Indian cricket laid itself open to becoming a vehicle for tax minimisation and money laundering http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/457451.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/457451.html Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:00:49 GMT The IPL has become an occasion for tub-thumping, mutual back-slapping and all-consuming PR http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/452036.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/452036.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:18:17 GMT The five-day game has been rendered dull by wall-to-wall tours and context-less competition. A little scandal occasionally wouldn't go amiss http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/444427.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/444427.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:53:10 GMT Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/447867.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/447867.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:49:08 GMT