John Howard has been knocked back - and knocked back without even an opportunity to address the rejectionists

Those railing against the former Australian PM are not shining examples of rectitude themselves

A hinge moment in cricket history when Test stars realised first-class contracts could be more profitable than playing for their countries

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?

The Stewart Regan email shows that cricket suffers from administrators frustrated with and contemptuous of the game they have been entrusted with

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

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

A stern, stoic resister, Allan Border was the keeper of his country's flame during their darkest hour. And he ensured that they would be just fine once he left

An Englishman who made an art out of obduracy

The IPL has become an occasion for tub-thumping, mutual back-slapping and all-consuming PR

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

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

A pioneer in moving fielders, shuffling and resting bowlers, the pathbreaking Australian captain believed much of the game was played above the shoulders

Does cricket make money to exist or exist to make money? The BCCI's dispute with the Indian tax authorities throws the old question into focus again

The ICC is struggling to remain relevant and also competing for players and money with its largest member board, the BCCI; and therein lies its possible salvation

Cricket administrators care little about fans at the grounds because home audiences are seen as priority. In fact the contempt for live viewers is greatest at cricket's big-ticket events

Far from being complementary, Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s are competitors; in many instances they cannibalise each other

How Victor Trumper came to be the embodiment of cricket's Golden Age, and an emblem for values his countryment still hold dear

It's not just players who are affected - fans and the media too are, apparently

Despite struggling against injury and illness for much of his career,Akram went on to bring about a seminal change in the way cricket was played