Tag Archives: International Cricket Council

The party-spirited cricket World Cup

Posted on May 17, 2024 by

Sharda Ugra’s essay and the BCCI-BJP combine’s presumption of zero resistance at the ICC Cricket World Cup Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Culture | Tagged Amit Shah, Asia Cup 2022, Bharatiya Janata Party, Board of Control for Cricket in India, International Cricket Council, Jay Shah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Narendra Modi stadium, orange jersey, Pepsi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ram Siya Ram, Sharda Ugra, Star Sports, Wisden Almanack, World Cup 2023 | Comments Off

ICC pitch-rating system is regulatory subversion

Posted on January 8, 2024 by

In today’s edition of The Hindu, Rebecca Rose Varghese and Vignesh Radhakrishnan have a particularly noteworthy edition of their ‘Data Point’ column – ‘noteworthy’ because they’ve used data to make concrete something we’ve all been feeling for a while, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis | Tagged A Cricketing View, Board of Control for Cricket in India, cricket, Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa, Data Point, entertainment sports, ICC, ICC pitch-rating system, International Cricket Council, ODI matches, pace bowling, pitch-rating, profitability, R Ashwin, Rebecca Rose Varghese, Rohit Sharma, spin bowling, sports, T20 matches, Test matches, The Hindu, Vignesh Radhakrishnan, virat-kohli | Comments Off