Has ego taken precedence?

Allegations that India is failing to take a leadership role in world cricket are partially true writes Ayaz Memon in the Times of India. In some cases, pique and ego have taken precedence over professional and dispassionate thought.

Stories of bullying by India are getting louder and they are no longer confined to the usual suspects of England and Australia. The BCCI has long been accused of arrogance, but there cannot be any doubt that the Indian cricket board has given cricket a tremendous boost which has benefited everyone

The ICC required just one annual conference to be reminded this ruling the world malarkey is not as easy as it looks writes Paul Radley in the National. At the recent FIFA congress in Switzerland football's ruling group lurched from one crisis to the next humiliation and while the ICC's yearly pow-wow in Hong Kong last week would certainly not have registered a mark on the FIFA scale, they still came up with some scandalously bad conclusions.

While the governing body appeared to give with one hand, by guaranteeing extra space for the developing nations in the 50 over flagship, it took away with the other, by cutting the World Twenty20 back from the proposed 16 teams to 12.

So the Associates find their wings clipped again. Sad as it is for them, the World Twenty20 remains the best multi-nation tournament in cricket.