Gideon Haigh

Bring on the controversy

Bring on the controversy

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

15-Mar-2010•Gideon Haigh

Club or country? Same difference

Club or country? Same difference

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

15-Feb-2010•Gideon Haigh

A taxing question for the BCCI

A taxing question for the BCCI

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

18-Jan-2010•Gideon Haigh

Let them watch TV

Let them watch TV

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

21-Dec-2009•Gideon Haigh

Cricket's tangle of formats

Cricket's tangle of formats

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

17-Nov-2009•Gideon Haigh

The problem with burnout

The problem with burnout

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

26-Oct-2009•Gideon Haigh

Its own worst enemy

Its own worst enemy

A hundred years into its existence, the ICC finds itself presiding over the means of its obsolescence

15-Jun-2009•Gideon Haigh

Who needs first-class cricket?

Who needs first-class cricket?

Why the success of the IPL may mean that domestic cricket could lose its value as a stepping stone to the Test platform

Gayle spake as he saw

Gayle spake as he saw

Why the West Indies captain's pronouncements reflect the actions of cricket's administrators

Nannes for president

Nannes for president

Modern cricket needs more players whose life is not just the game

Night of the screamers

Night of the screamers

Why the commentators' desperate hawking of the IPL may have started to work against the tournament

An opportunity missed

An opportunity missed

The IPL could have used the move to South Africa to globalise itself, but it has come across as an imperialist enterprise instead

Vive le new boys

Vive le new boys

The likes of Phil Hughes and Marcus North have made a case for blooding fresh talent

The meltdown that was in the stars

The meltdown that was in the stars

The likes of the ECB should have seen the latest Stanford developments coming

Cricket at the crunch

Cricket at the crunch

Recent events have shown that the game is not immune to the global economic meltdown

A century of dysfunction

A century of dysfunction

Approaching its centenary, the ICC finds itself in a state of perhaps terminal decline

A thorny passage

A thorny passage

The Mumbai attacks mark what may be the beginning of a difficult period for the game in India

In defence of Punter

In defence of Punter

Ponting may deserve criticism for his moves on day four at Nagpur, but he deserves a measure of sympathy as well

Punter's frontier

Punter's frontier

For Ponting the India tour is more than a matter of setting his dismal record in the country straight

The security excuse

The security excuse

If players' pay has ceased to be an issue to agitate about, conditions have not. At any rate, in the wake of 9/11, security is the new God before whom all must bow, and cricket is no exception

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