The state of cricket and cricket administration (Part I)

Mr. Speaker, I think it is safe to say that among the several contentious issues that have bedeviled us in this House, few have been as vexed and contentious as the issue of cricket administration. The quarrel and I believe the Hon. Minister has alluded to this, has frequently generated, I am afraid, more heat than light; the polemics have been vituperative; there have been yards of column inches; they have flooded the courts with serial injunctions; and all the while, the two sides have dug in, launching missiles at each other…