A cracked pitch

Rohit Mahajan and Satarupa Bhattacharjya find out that there's a a growing rumble against the BCCI’s power and the way the body rules the world of cricket. More in the Outlook magazine.

The BCCI uses the bait of money to lure the best players away from their domestic tournaments to the IPL. But it doesn’t allow its own cricketers to forego domestic tournaments and play T20 abroad. There’s resentment that it’s undermining world cricket, just what Packer’s World Series did some 30 years ago.