Gideon Haigh

Controlling the message

Cricket boards need to realise the game will not perish if they don't monetise every "product" and police the utterances of every player

07-Oct-2013•Gideon Haigh

The sovereign republic of the BCCI

The Indian board is setting a precedent by ignoring the FTP, and thus seemingly reserving the right to do with international cricket as it pleases

16-Sep-2013•Gideon Haigh

Are South Africa a durable No. 1?

Their predecessors in the position had short reigns but Graeme Smith's team might just be the real deal

19-Mar-2013•Gideon Haigh

What should the ICC be?

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

27-Sep-2011•Gideon Haigh

Ave Test cricket

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

21-Jun-2011•Gideon Haigh

Where's the next Katich coming from?

CA needs to focus on developing proper cricketers, but it seems too much in thrall to the needs of Twenty20 to care

18-Jun-2011•Gideon Haigh

It's an Irish question and a global one

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

29-Apr-2011•Gideon Haigh

Who administers the administrators?

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

31-Jan-2011•Gideon Haigh

Cricket Australia, look at yourself

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

18-Jan-2011•Gideon Haigh

No favourite, no underdog

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

02-Nov-2010•Gideon Haigh

The age of conspiracy

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

29-Sep-2010•Gideon Haigh

Corruption? It's everywhere

It's no wonder there's match-fixing in the modern game, with its environment of easy money and pervasive maladministration

31-Aug-2010•Gideon Haigh

Cricket's fig leaf of democracy

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

04-Jul-2010•Gideon Haigh

A grave new low for lowly ICC

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

01-Jul-2010•Gideon Haigh

The case for Howard

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

23-Jun-2010•Gideon Haigh

Whatever happened to governance?

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?

31-May-2010•Gideon Haigh

Cricketainment, eh?

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

11-May-2010•Gideon Haigh

Put the game before the brand

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

06-May-2010•Gideon Haigh

Why so surprised?

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

27-Apr-2010•Gideon Haigh

Really, Warnie?

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

16-Mar-2010•Gideon Haigh

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