Nita Ambani, owner of the Mumbai Indians, and Lalit Modi, chairman and commissioner of the IPL, at the auction held in January in Mumbai. Photo: Getty Images
By Peter Roebuck
NOT even a week after the spectacular final of the 2011 World Cup, the cricketers are back among us, not wearing the colours of their country and playing 50-over cricket, but dressed in the apparently arbitrary attire of their Twenty20 franchises.
Of course, it is the future.
Cricket is finished as an international game. It faces a long and slow decline caused by an international cricket board that lacks vision and integrity, a board of knaves and fools that makes one-star decisions while staying in five-star hotels.
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Through no fault of the ICC’s admirable employees, cricket has become a corrupt and worthless activity and deserves nothing better than the Indian Premier League, a format known for jiggery pokery, social excesses and cosmetic grins.
A worthless corrupt pursuit
##### By Peter Roebuck
NOT even a week after the spectacular final of the 2011 World Cup, the cricketers are back among us, not wearing the colours of their country and playing 50-over cricket, but dressed in the apparently arbitrary attire of their Twenty20 franchises.
Of course, it is the future.
Cricket is finished as an international game. It faces a long and slow decline caused by an international cricket board that lacks vision and integrity, a board of knaves and fools that makes one-star decisions while staying in five-star hotels.
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Through no fault of the ICC's admirable employees, cricket has become a corrupt and worthless activity and deserves nothing better than the Indian Premier League, a format known for jiggery pokery, social excesses and cosmetic grins.
