Cricket Blog

THE Twenty20 revolution is stalling, not because fascination with the game has turned to disillusionment, but because of that monster of our times, the global economic crisis. Twenty20 was from the start about nothing if not money. Twenty20 money would pay players on an unprecedented scale, attract new fans, add glamour, beget more money, loosen [...]

Lalit Modi, commissioner of the billion-pound Indian Premier League, has said that if Andrew Flintoff were to decide he was fit to play in the league, then the England and Wales Cricket Board should not interfere. “It’s between the player and his team,” Modi said. “It is nothing to do with the ECB as far [...]