Gideon Haigh Quotes
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.
No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.