First WikiLeaks, now CrickiLeaks?

The web has wrought all kinds of innovations in cricket-writing, says Andy Bull, writing in the Guardian. And, he says, a new blog on the workings of the West Indies Cricket Board threatens to change the game again.

The web has wrought all kinds of changes in cricket-writing. Cricinfo's growth is just the most conspicuous manifestation of the evolution. The web has fostered a new generation of writers, amateurs and outsiders who have traded access for style, swapped the traditional pretence of objectivity for a more wilfully subjective approach. Cricket has more voices now than ever before. The difficulty can be figuring out which ones to listen to.

For the last fortnight I've been turning over that exact question while looking through the pages of a remarkable blog – WICB Exposé. If it is genuine, then this is a site that really could change the game. Unlike most bloggers, the person behind WICB Exposé appears to have inside information. Lots of it. In fact they seem to have the kind of information that a lot of journalists could only dream of, and more tellingly, that the few who could access would feel compelled to sit on for fear of alienating the source that gave it to them in the first place.