Andrew Fidel Fernando
If there are still those who consider England the home of cricket, then India is cricket’s Vegas mega-mansion. The glitz has been impossible to miss for years now. They are highrolling like no one’s ever highrolled before, carving out vast tracts of real estate on the calendar for the IPL, raising obscene sums from broadcast contracts, and drawing more nations, more players, more companies, and more spineless political shills into orbit.
If the Briefing sounds grumpy about all of this, it has nothing to do with our not being on the Indian cricket gravy train. It’s because we have morals*.
We thought we were friends
Dearest BCCI,
We hope you are well. Your president looks dashing on his magazine covers.
We are writing after receiving the new…