Cricketainment, eh?

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

The IPL mess

Giles Clarke's empire strikes back

Andrew Miller: The ECB chairman has chosen to mix the business of English cricket with the pleasure of watching Lalit Modi squirm

Indian Premier League 2010

Crafty Ashwin catches the eye

The Chennai offspinner turned in a series of telling performances with the new ball in the second half of the IPL. By Kanishkaa Balachandran

Lessons from the IPL mess

Time Out: Sanjay Manjrekar, Ayaz Memon, Gideon Haigh and Harsha Bhogle look back at the IPL fiasco, and discuss what the BCCI needs to do

'The cricket world is holding its breath'

Switch Hit: Chennai are crowned IPL champions, but the Modi scandal has everybody talking. Plus, World T20 and county news

Long may the IPL reign

Rob Steen: Would Indian cricket be under a cloud if their side hadn't won the first World Twenty20? Maybe not, but it's not as if the IPL has been all bad either

Pawar and Co. are culpable

Gideon Haigh: Modi operated with impunity, and Indian cricket laid itself open to becoming a vehicle for tax minimisation and money laundering

Indian Premier League 2010

The IPL XI

Now that the IPL is done and dusted, Cricinfo picks its IPL XI, and it's a Chennai-Mumbai-Bangalore oligopoly

A blueprint for the IPL

Rahul Bhattacharya: Corporate partnership rather than ownership may have delivered a much healthier IPL

BCCI bitten by its own buzzword

The BCCI under Pawar has made a mockery of the vision document it released in 2005. By Jayaditya Gupta

The IPL and the perils of greed

Ian Chappell: The IPL is a possible guide to cricket's future but greed will ruin it and result in the public losing faith in it. The BCCI must ensure its future is fiscally responsible

'Indian cricket's image has taken a beating'

Sanjay Manjrekar on the controversy that has hit the IPL

The importance of being clean

Harsha Bhogle: The BCCI needs to appoint an independent regulatory body for the IPL, with the power to demand compliance

The most and least productive overs

The Numbers Game: A look at the average number of runs scored in each over in IPL 2010

The science of the big hit

Aakash Chopra: There's a lot more to hitting a long ball than clearing your front foot out of the way and having a swipe

'Cricket and politics are as intertwined as ever'

Switch Hit: Why security, and Twitter, are threatening the IPL. England's Twenty20 dream up in smoke. And is Lara back in the game?

'Sometimes the adulation is too much to handle'

Time Out: Robin Uthappa speaks to Sanjay Manjrekar and Harsha Bhogle about the challenges for young players in the IPL

His Holiness meets Yuvraj

Cricket may not be top of the mind for Dharamsala's Tibetan exiles, but a certain player is much in demand. By Nagraj Gollapudi

Steyn's brilliance and the launch of KP

IPL Weekly: Tired pitches, tired commentators, brilliant Steyn and KP finally takes off in India

The IPL needs transparency

Harsha Bhogle: The latest financial scandal could discredit the IPL and take away from the good it has done for the little-known players

The best finishers, and starting with spin

The Numbers Game: A look at teams and individuals in the last six overs in the IPL, and the spinners who've been brave enough to bowl the first over

Enough with the secrecy

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

Brand Yuvi bigger than the player

Rob Steen: Yuvraj Singh's celebrity is disproportionate to his achievements on the field, and his recent sulk brought that truth into focus

The IPL and the limits of the free market

Ashok Malik: The Ravindra Jadeja verdict suggests the IPL is trying to put in place checks on player power to protect the league's interests

What the IPL says about India

Ayaz Memon: Brash, loud and vulgar, the IPL can be seen as a symbol of a country full of a recently acquired affluence and confidence

The good the IPL does

Ian Chappell: Triumphing against international stars will help young cricketers make strong cases for being given runs in their national sides

Tendulkar transcends the format

Sambit Bal: To watch the master in Chennai was to be reminded of how he unites India, and also of how his batting has remained pure, even in Twenty20

Gambhir got a raw deal

Harsha Bhogle: Reprimanding players for honest observations will just lead to more boring, vanilla statements than we already get