Introduction: A World of Worry
Part I: A Brief History of Now
2. The Future of Cricket: The Kravchuk Factor
3. India and Australia: Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Indian?
4. Champions Trophy 2008: Creeping Insecurities
5. Sport and Recession: Can the Centre Hold?
6. Mumbai: Blood in the Streets
7. International Cricket Council: No Biggie
8. International Cricket Council: The End of Empire
9. International Cricket Council: 1909 and All That
10. Stanford Super Series: The Acid Test?
11. Stanford Super Series: Gone for All Money
12. Stanford Super Series: Capacity Crowd
13. Stanford Super Series: Collective Failure
14. Twenty20: Technical Correction
16. Indian Premier League: Imperialism Redux
17. Indian Premier League 2: In Praise of Diggler
18. Indian Premier League 2: Commercial Breakage
19. World Twenty20: Top of the World?
20. Chris Gayle: Follow the Leader
21. Champions Trophy: How to Save One-Day Internationals
22. Champions League 2009: Passion Play
23. Burnout: Everyone’s Problem
24. Cricket in 2009: The Longest Year
25. International Cricket Council: A Modest Proposal
26. Cricket and Television: Crowds and Powerlessness
27. Test Cricket: Good Bad Publicity
28. ICC World Test Championship: Who Rules the World?
29. ICC Code of Conduct: Hail the New Puritan
30. The BCCI: Talking to the Taxman about Cricket
31. Club v Country: T20 Nation
32. Indian Premier League 3: All a Twitter
33. The Fall of Lalit Modi: Transparent Lies
34. The Fall of Lalit Modi: Brand from the Burning
35. An English IPL?: Anyone for Cricketainment?
36. The Governance of Cricket: Officers’ Mess
37. John Howard at the ICC: The Augean Stable
38. John Howard at the ICC: A Confederacy of Dunces
39. John Howard at the ICC: I Do Not Like Thee, Mr Howard
40. The ICC: A Crisis of Legitimacy
41. World Cup / IPL 2011: A Land Fit For Heroes
42. World Cup 2015: Swinging Irish
Part III: Australia Felix and Infelix
43. Allan Border: Leader of the Resistance
44. Steve Waugh: Buried Treasure
45. Shane Warne: Fame Is the Spur
46. Shane Warne: The Musical: Fanfare for the Common Man
47. Shane Warne in the IPL: Yeah Yeah
50. The Future of Test cricket: Match Drawn?
51. The 2009 Ashes: A Thing of Rags and Patches
52. Australia in 2009–10: The Fork in the Road
53. Michael Clarke and Lara Bingle: A Woman’s Place?
54. Australia in 2010–11: Fiasco
56. Javed Miandad: Agent Provocateur
58. Muttiah Muralitharan: Sharp Elbows
59. Tendulkar in Perth: The Little Master
60. Sachin Tendulkar: Twenty Years of Mastery
61. Sachin Tendulkar: Pure Genius
62. Sachin Tendulkar v Sir Donald Bradman: Who’s the Boss?
63. Sachin Tendulkar v Ricky Ponting: Parallel Lives
64. Fake IPL Player: True Lies
65. Cricket and the Media: The Pantomime Horse
66. Spot-fixing: The Fix is (Back) In
68. Spot-fixing: Class Consciousness
69. Conspiracy in Cricket: All the Conspirators