Jayaditya Gupta

It can't do Indian cricket any good when there is rampant speculation over the motives and methods of its highest-profile player

There is no one in the BCCI with Lalit Modi's marketing savvy, but don't shed any tears for his expulsion. He was far from an innocent victim

Gauging from the official broadcast of the IPL you'd be hard-pressed to guess there has been a spot-fixing scandal over the past few days

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

The Indian board's foot-dragging and muscle-flexing over the drug-testing issue is typical

How did the most glamorous team in the IPL become a cautionary tale only halfway into the season?

India's selectors had a lot of explaining to do, particularly about the inclusion of Sourav Ganguly, but there was no open, transparent media interaction

Success is everything and all else be damned. The IPL has brought football-style despotism into cricket

To anyone who has followed Indian cricket in the past few months, Friday night's incident was inevitable

The IPL's biggest competition in India may come from an unexpected quarter - the English Premier League

The BCCI faces a problem largely of its own making because it has sown the seeds for the ICL to flourish. But the solution, too, lies in its own hands

The ICL may just be a blessing in disguise for the BCCI. Pity they don't seem to be able to recognise it

The launch of a "parallel" league in India should, one way or another, be good news for Indian cricket