It's an old yarn, but let's revisit it. This is how cricket can be explained to a foreigner who knows nothing about the game: "You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. "Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. "When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. "When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

"When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!" Whoever thought of this explanation is a genius. It's funny but true, just like the functioning of the game in India at the moment. With apologies to all the genuine people who wanted to see a better run game after the spot fixing controversy rocked the Indian Premier League in 2013, it cannot be said that cricket is on a better wicket than before in terms of administration.