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Apr 11, 20213 min read
Looking ahead to the financial future of the 2021 English Cricket Season
The England cricket season runs from the first week of April, to the second weekend of September. However, due to the uncertainty...
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vedantja
Apr 11, 20214 min read
Insights from "What's My Name, Fool?"
My latest blog post talks about David Zirin's book about resistance demonstrations through sport, “What’s My Name, Fool?”. In the book,...
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vedantja
Apr 11, 20212 min read
How Sport can traverse the toughest political differences
In the Winter Olympics of 2018, South and North Korea, political enemies since the Korean War of the early 50s, put aside their...
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vedantja
Apr 11, 20214 min read
How Tech Companies will Shape Sports in the Decade to come
The impact of dot-com companies dipping their toes into sports media rights negotiations cannot be understated. By threatening to...
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vedantja
Apr 11, 20217 min read
Should student athletes be paid?
It is not surprising that college athletes were traditionally unpaid. If one looks at the amateur status athletes competed under, as well...
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vedantja
Mar 31, 20219 min read
#PutOutYourBats
27th of November, 2014 was the day the cricket world stopped. Phillip Joel Hughes was pronounced dead at St. Vincent’s Hospital in...
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vedantja
Mar 31, 20215 min read
Bats, balls and bullets: The story of Afghanistan and it's storied cricket team
Amongst the rubble of fractured buildings, lies an even more fractured society. Poverty, unemployment, Islamic extremism and American...
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vedantja
Mar 31, 20216 min read
In-home or in-stadia: and how covid has changed sports' landscape.
The current sporting landscape is beholden to greater cultural and technological phenomena. With the rise of cord-cutting and an...
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vedantja
Mar 14, 20219 min read
War Minus The Shooting:An Analysis of International Cricket and its Political Implications
Introduction Cricket is a sport played and watched by billions of people all over the world. Originating in England, it was spread around...
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vedantja
Feb 13, 20217 min read
The Peaceful Warrior
Whether it’s on the face of Indian currency, or as quotes on college dorm walls, it’s nigh on impossible to escape the life and teachings...
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vedantja
Feb 13, 20212 min read
Should Indian Athletes "Shut Up And Dribble"?
“Shut up and Dribble”. Laura Ingharam’s words leave a sour taste in the mouth, but it raises one side of a debate as old as time: should...
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