Questions without answers

Rai has recounted in detail each flashpoint between the different bodies and the political executive but has often stopped short of taking a clear position on who is to blame

Sourav Ganguly’s controversy-ridden ascension as BCCI President and the appointment of dynasts and politically connected people to other key positions in the sports body means Indian cricket administration is back to where it was in 2013, when the Supreme Court had stepped in and appointed a Committee of Administrators headed by Vinod Rai. It is possible to ask: What did the interregnum under Mr Rai achieve? 

A disclaimer first: Mr Rai wrote the Foreword to my book India’s Coal Story. It is an incisive piece, he had carried forward those arguments in his own book  Not Just an Accountant. He argued