Reportage
The broadcaster finds itself trapped in a $3 billion contract it can’t afford and can’t exit. The workaround taking shape will determine whether Indian cricket’s decade of growth was sustainable or inflated.
Exclusives
India’s online real-money gaming ban vaporised Dream11’s profit engine. Next week, the company relaunches with a radically different design. The State of Play has exclusive details on what comes next.
Exclusives
UK-based investor group negotiating a minority stake in the IPL franchise in one of the league’s largest recent equity deals
Reportage
Hyrox and Ironman have revealed a premium fitness consumer that always existed. The race now is to build the infrastructure before others move in.
Analysis
India’s World Cup win was the result of years of incremental reform, steady investment, and a league that treated women’s cricket as a business worth building.
Reportage
While Ravi Shastri, Bharat Arun, and R Sridhar were guiding India to famous wins, they were studying another problem: who coaches the coaches? Their answer is now reshaping how cricket is taught across the country.
Reportage
An Indian industrial brand has rewritten the rules of sports marketing, backing small-town leagues and rural audiences from Italy to Australia, turning proximity into strategy.