Soul under the hammer
The news that Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson have turned down the chance to play in the IPL comes like a gust of fresh breeze, writes Sharda Ugra in her India Today blog.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
The news that Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson have turned down the chance to play in the IPL comes like a gust of fresh breeze, writes Sharda Ugra in her India Today blog.
The cynical will say that they have missed the bus to the next big thing in cricket. But what the three Aussies with the best of their careers ahead of them have done is make an eloquent choice between, 'cash and country', to use the words from Symonds' latest column. At the very least, they have also earned the right to express outrage at cricket's cash-rich fat cats.
In the Hindustan Times Anand Vasu speaks to Yogesh Shetty, the CEO of the GMR Group that owns Delhi Daredevils.
Chloe Saltau, writing in the Melbourne-based Age, on Michael Clarke putting his country and family ahead of money.
Shane Warne will leave his former team-mates in the shade by commanding the highest reserve price at today's historic player auction in India, say Robert Craddock and Jon Pierik in the Courier Mail.
Mumbai tabloid Mid-Day tells you why the Indian Premier League will stump you even before the first ball is bowled
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo