There’s been talk recently that the ICC is mulling over whether to ban sledging altogether. Sledging, for those of you who don’t know, is the fine art of hurling verbal abuses at your opponents (that would just become bleep-bleep-bleep on TV) so as to distract them. The Australians are credited with having invented this art, [...]

The love-hate relationship that the International Cricket Council seems to be having with the IPL tournament is showing in various funny ways. First it was the flip-flopping over the exclusive window for the IPL’s 6-week tournament. Then, the ICC made some really weird statements about the possible corruption risk in the IPL tournament.This is new [...]

The ICC Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Speed on Sunday reportedly said that the ICC was considering giving the IPL an exclusive window so that all the players are available to play in the richest Twenty20 tournament in the world. This is a complete reversal from ICC’s earlier stand which was that “Nothing could be done [...]