'Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?'
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, revolutionised by a racy new format, Twenty20, and a glamorous new competition, the Indian Premier League. How did India come to run world cricket? How did clubs owned by billionaires and Bollywood stars begin to shove international competition aside? How did money unite players and divide administrators, amid allegations of massive corruption?
Gideon Haigh has followed cricket's biggest story since Kerry Packer's 'World Series' from the beginning: Sphere of Influenceis the result. This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp and disturbing focus.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: A World of Worry
- Part I: A Brief History of Now
- 1. What Just Happened
- Part II: Crisis? What Crisis?
- 2. The Future of Cricket: The Kravchuk Factor
- 3. India and Australia: Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Indian?
- 4. Champions Trophy 2008: Creeping Insecurities
- 5. Sport and Recession: Can the Centre Hold?
- 6. Mumbai: Blood in the Streets
- 7. International Cricket Council: No Biggie
- 8. International Cricket Council: The End of Empire
- 9. International Cricket Council: 1909 and All That
- 10. Stanford Super Series: The Acid Test?
- 11. Stanford Super Series: Gone for All Money
- 12. Stanford Super Series: Capacity Crowd
- 13. Stanford Super Series: Collective Failure
- 14. Twenty20: Technical Correction
- 15. Pakistan: Lost in Space
- 16. Indian Premier League: Imperialism Redux
- 17. Indian Premier League 2: In Praise of Diggler
- 18. Indian Premier League 2: Commercial Breakage
- 19. World Twenty20: Top of the World?
- 20. Chris Gayle: Follow the Leader
- 21. Champions Trophy: How to Save One-Day Internationals
- 22. Champions League 2009: Passion Play
- 23. Burnout: Everyone's Problem
- 24. Cricket in 2009: The Longest Year
- 25. International Cricket Council: A Modest Proposal
- 26. Cricket and Television: Crowds and Powerlessness
- 27. Test Cricket: Good Bad Publicity
- 28. ICC World Test Championship: Who Rules the World?
- 29. ICC Code of Conduct: Hail the New Puritan
- 30. The BCCI: Talking to the Taxman about Cricket
- 31. Club v Country: T20 Nation
- 32. Indian Premier League 3: All a Twitter
- 33. The Fall of Lalit Modi: Transparent Lies
- 34. The Fall of Lalit Modi: Brand from the Burning
- 35. An English IPL?: Anyone for Cricketainment?
- 36. The Governance of Cricket: Officers' Mess
- 37. John Howard at the ICC: The Augean Stable
- 38. John Howard at the ICC: A Confederacy of Dunces
- 39. John Howard at the ICC: I Do Not Like Thee, Mr Howard
- 40. The ICC: A Crisis of Legitimacy
- 41. World Cup / IPL 2011: A Land Fit For Heroes
- 42. World Cup 2015: Swinging Irish
- Part III: Australia Felix and Infelix
- 43. Allan Border: Leader of the Resistance
- 44. Steve Waugh: Buried Treasure
- 45. Shane Warne: Fame Is the Spur
- 46. Shane Warne: The Musical: Fanfare for the Common Man
- 47. Shane Warne in the IPL: Yeah Yeah
- 48. Ricky Ponting: Big Ask
- 49. Ricky Ponting: Nag Poor
- 50. The Future of Test cricket: Match Drawn?
- 51. The 2009 Ashes: A Thing of Rags and Patches
- 52. Australia in 2009–10: The Fork in the Road
- 53. Michael Clarke and Lara Bingle: A Woman's Place?
- 54. Australia in 2010–11: Fiasco
- Part IV: Giants of Asia
- 55. Imran Khan: Yes, We Khan
- 56. Javed Miandad: Agent Provocateur
- 57. Kapil Dev: India Rising
- 58. Muttiah Muralitharan: Sharp Elbows
- 59. Tendulkar in Perth: The Little Master
- 60. Sachin Tendulkar: Twenty Years of Mastery
- 61. Sachin Tendulkar: Pure Genius
- 62. Sachin Tendulkar v Sir Donald Bradman: Who's the Boss?
- 63. Sachin Tendulkar v Ricky Ponting: Parallel Lives
- Part V: My Trade
- 64. Fake IPL Player: True Lies
- 65. Cricket and the Media: The Pantomime Horse
- Part VI: The Black Spot
- 66. Spot-fixing: The Fix is (Back) In
- 67. Spot-fixing: Moral Hazard
- 68. Spot-fixing: Class Consciousness
- 69. Conspiracy in Cricket: All the Conspirators
- 70. Corruption: Who Guards the Guards?
- 71. Spot-Fixing: Now What?
- Index