Jayaditya Gupta

Executive editor of ESPNcricinfo in India

WMD? Game-changer? Nah, it's just a bat

It promises to be as revolutionary in cricket as graphite rackets and titanium clubs were in tennis and golf

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Azhar's second innings

India’s general elections were a vindication not only for the Congress party but for one of its debutant candidates

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

When Warney nipped a sip

Shane Warne walks on water but is famously partial to beer – even in the middle of an IPL game

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

IPL's hidden, hungry fanbase

Reports of the IPL’s dwindling popularity in Season 2 are grossly untrue - just ask the prisoners in Kolkata’s Alipore Central Jail, who have gone on a hunger strike in protest against not being allowed to watch the tournament

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Sourav's screen presence

When he retired from the game, many thought Sourav Ganguly’s next avatar would be as a TV commentator

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Gilchrist wants ticket fire-sale

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Finally, a winning script

A city that has long lived on the fringes of sporting success has finally hit the headlines for the right reasons

28-May-2012•Jayaditya Gupta

Give Tendulkar the benefit of the doubt

Leadership hasn't been his strength but statesmanship has come almost naturally to him

28-Apr-2012•Jayaditya Gupta

The IPL and Lalit Modi

The map of Indian and international cricket was reorganised when a previously unknown BCCI official came up with a franchise-based Twenty20 model

28-Aug-2011•Jayaditya Gupta

Blame the BCCI, not Gavaskar and Shastri

The two commentators are merely the messengers. The problem is with the medium and the message, and the board wants to control all three

17-Aug-2011•Jayaditya Gupta

Mohinder ambles to glory

Amiable, apologetic, lazy, relaxed - Mohinder Amarnath was all of those, yet put in a Man-of-the-Match performance in the 1983 World Cup final

11-Feb-2011•Jayaditya Gupta

Don't believe the bad press

Ahmedabad is short on alcohol and a visible colonial past but if you seek adventure, there's plenty of history, culture and cuisine to challenge you

24-Nov-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

An opportunity for a clean-up

The scrapping of two IPL franchises just may be the opportunity the league needs to fashion itself as a world-class enterprise, but will the BCCI take it up?

11-Oct-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

Amin a contrast to flamboyant Modi

The new IPL chairman brings to the table inscrutability, a low profile, a respectability and credibility among his peers, professional competence and an aversion to controversy.

26-Apr-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

BCCI bitten by its own buzzword

The BCCI under Sharad Pawar's presidency has made a mockery of the vision document it released in 2005

25-Apr-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

Enough with the secrecy

The Kochi franchise ruckus may finally force the BCCI into being transparent. About time too

14-Apr-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

From yarn to yawn

The blog was the sensation of the second season of the IPL. The book seems an unwieldy, long-winded cash-in

03-Apr-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

What about the arm around the shoulder?

Ravindra Jadeja's ban by the IPL raises the question: do our young cricketers have the sort of support system they need?

16-Feb-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

A case of misplaced outrage

It's not easy to assign blame for the fiasco over the exclusion of Pakistani players from the third season of the IPL

23-Jan-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

What football and basketball can teach cricket

The influx of big money into cricket in the last decade has parallels in other sports; there are lessons to be found there as well

08-Jan-2010•Jayaditya Gupta

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