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The Business of Cricket podcast features in-depth discussions with cricket's leading executives about pressing issues facing the sport. We give you an insider's view into the people, deals and organizations that drive the cricket world. Our guests include ICC and national governing board leaders, T20 franchise owners and executives, sponsors, broadcasters, agents, coaches, players and other people doing important and interesting things in cricket. If you want to learn more about what drives the cricket world off the pitch, are interested in the business of sport, or are in the industry or hope...

In cricket or life you never want to get beaten. But the game can bite you, and you can get BITTEN. BITTEN by the game OR SMITTEN by its characters, whatever one may choose to call happened to me in my teens. As a kid in a Bengali household I was often the victim of mum’s pathological hatred for the game. ‘Baba porte Bosho’ (get on with your books), she would say, when a generation was being charmed by a man called Sachin Tendulkar, the guile of Shane Warne, Anil Kumble’s grit or Laxman/Dravid’s magnificence... it often felt cruel.... Despite Mum’s million warnings, Cricket did ...