Oct 042011
The offence taken at a comment about Sachin Tendulkar in Shoaib Akhtar’s new book has been more than a bit excessive, writes David Hopps in the Guardian. Also, why this attitude of practiced indifference from the ECB about the Champions League T20 isn’t the way to go. The ECB is perhaps suspicious that a successful Champions League could be the first stage in the clubs becoming more powerful and causing the gradual erosion of international cricket. It looks at the dominance of football’s Premier League, and the damage that this…