The thing about always saying yes to the person with the biggest stick is that, in the end, you don’t get to say yes any more. Or no. Or anything else for that matter. The thing about always taking the money is that in the end the money has to be repaid. The thing about aligning all your interests with a single furiously nationalistic political party is … Well, it’s the thing we have now.
It would be incorrect to say English cricket and the ECB are in danger of being compromised, financially menaced and basically screwed by ripples from the deeply distressing, potentially apocalyptic escalation of military conflict in Kashmir. Or rather it would be incomplete to say this. English cricket is all of these things. But more widely cricket everywhere is screwed by this. Financially, structurally, even – and this feels like laughter in the dark – morally.
