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Sponsored Banter: The Sound Of Summer

‘It’s a terrible indictment of a culture that is really only comfortable with two public emotions – fury and sniggering. A.A. Gill’s line is from his (brilliant) book The Angry Isle, Hunting the...

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The Backroom Deal That Explains England’s Trip To Dublin

There’s quite a backstory to why England are playing an ODI in Dublin this week. Rewind to 2007, England played Ireland in Guyana in the Super Eights of the ICC Cricket World Cup, a week after...

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Sport Marketers Are Like Hairdressers, And Some Other Reasons The World Test...

It isn’t a shock that the ICC World Test Championship will never see the light of day. The main reason for this is that television didn’t want it (See previous interview with Manu Sawhney, then head...

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Will The Real ECB Please Reveal Themselves

The ECB has featured in the two big cricket stories this week, but have inhabited two very different roles.  Story 1 – The sacking of Kevin Pietersen Story [...] The post Will The Real ECB Please...

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Why The IPL Auction Is Far More Entertaining Than The Cricket

It’s long been my suspicion that the success of Twenty20 has been misread. The appeal of the IPL is more about money than it is about format. The difference between T20 and say, golf’s attempts to...

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The NatWest Blast feels a lot like 2004, and that’s a good thing

Ten years ago I took my dad to one of the first Twenty20 matches at Lord’s. It was his 80th birthday so as a special treat I drove in and used his blue disabled sticker to park outside the Grace...

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Cricket on social media? It’s an IPL thing

Other Stuff Like ThisWhy The IPL Auction Is Far More Entertaining Than The Cricket It's long been my suspicion that the success of Twenty20 has been misread. The appeal of the IPL is more about money...

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What if: Waitrose brought back free to air cricket?

The Times cricket app is a nice idea. Why shouldn’t newspapers be cricket broadcasters? Others are playing in the space and given the numbers being churned by, for example, the Daily Mail’s site, they...

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What David Collier tells us about the sports business

Outgoing ECB chief exec David Collier was on the radio this morning, attempting to protect his legacy from being hijacked by Kevin Pietersen’s revelations from inside the England dressing room....

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An Unofficial List of Good Questions

Why do we assume sporting brilliance is transferable? Few words have been devalued quite as much as ‘legend’, but in the case of Beckenbauer, Cruyff and Platini, the label was justified. What’s more,...

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