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Shekhar Gupta: Conflicts behind conflicts in cricket

Judicial activism in cricket has bared open conflicts in serious areas such as financial markets

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Shekhar Gupta
Why does the honourable Supreme Court’s very well-intended endeavour to reform the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) now have Indian cricket look like a patient that a surgeon cut open but isn’t sure how to stitch it back? 

Why is the Indian cricket team, to begin its defence of the ICC Champions Trophy in England with a crunch match against Pakistan on Sunday, answering questions from BCCI representatives about why it hates its coach rather than focus on the game? Why is Indian cricket — the playing element, mind you, not the officialdom — looking more divided
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