More lies ahead at the ICC

The takeover of the ICC by the Big Three may have signalled a new world order, but there was something that remain changed.The new age of international cricket administration has started the same way as it had ended - in a blizzard of lies, writes Osman Samiuddin in the National.

So it fairly warmed the heart last Thursday when the new ICC chairman, N Srinivasan, addressed the media for the first time after taking over and, in the course of about 15 minutes of a tightly controlled interaction, was - let's put this kindly - a little loose and easy with the truth four times. Imagine the disorientation had he not.