{"id":4782,"date":"2008-05-14T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2008-05-14T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T07:19:00","slug":"the-liberalisation-of-indian-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-liberalisation-of-indian-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberalisation of Indian Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"
“The IPL shows it is time to liberalise cricket,” wrote my friend Barun Mitra of Liberty Institute<\/a> in a recent email, and the thought is echoed by Neelakantan of Interim Thoughts<\/a>, who draws a comparison between the IPL and what liberalisation did to the IT industry in the 1990s. <\/p>\n Needless to say, I agree with them—though I wish the extent of both liberalisations was greater. Just as the government retains a stranglehold<\/a> over many areas of our lives, the BCCI retains its monopoly over representative cricket. Deeper change will be a long time coming—though I’m grateful for the little that has come so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The IPL shows it is time to liberalise cricket,” wrote my friend Barun Mitra of Liberty Institute<\/a> in a recent email, and the thought is echoed by Neelakantan of Interim Thoughts<\/a>, who draws a comparison between the IPL and what liberalisation did to the IT industry in the 1990s. <\/p>\n Needless to say, I agree with them—though I wish the extent of both liberalisations was greater. Just as the government retains a stranglehold<\/a> over many areas of our lives, the BCCI retains its monopoly over representative cricket. Deeper change will be a long time coming—though I’m grateful for the little that has come so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n