Episodes

  • Episode 1 - The Don’s Game

    Episode 1 - The Don’s Game
    Apr 3 2023
    "If you guys win the tournament, I will give all of you a Toyota car each," underworld don Dawood Ibrahim said inside the Indian team locker room, in 1987, thus changing the sport forever.
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    27 mins
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  • Episode 2 - The Bookmaker

    Episode 2 - The Bookmaker
    Apr 3 2023
    Match fixing in cricket is a story as old as time, but in the year 2000, in India, cricket’s reputation changed forever, when the game’s biggest match fixing scandal was exposed.
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    25 mins
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  • Episode 3 - How Spot Fixing Changed The Game

    Episode 3 - How Spot Fixing Changed The Game
    Apr 3 2023
    In 2010, just as the cricketing world was coming to terms with the advent of the IPL and the explosion of the internet, spot fixing, aka match fixing on steroids, showed how the sport had been engulfed by money.
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  • Episode 4 - Cricket’s Lowest High

    Episode 4 - Cricket’s Lowest High
    Apr 3 2023
    In the 1970s, cricketers were banned for smoking marijuana. Fast forward to 40 years and immeasurable medicinal advancements later, and we have the perfect cocktail: lax-anti drug policies, the IPL where one performance can make you a millionaire, and cricketers willing to risk it all.
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    28 mins
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  • Episode 5 - Lalit Modi: India’s Answer to Kerry Packer

    Episode 5 - Lalit Modi: India’s Answer to Kerry Packer
    Apr 3 2023
    This is the story of the founder of the IPL, a man who created one of the world’s most commercially successful sporting tournaments out of thin air, and then was chased out of his country under a cloud of corruption and nepotism.
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  • Episode 6 - Cheering for Cricket

    Episode 6 - Cheering for Cricket
    Apr 3 2023
    Importing white-skinned women from the west, giving them skimpy outfits to wear, and making them stand near over excited crowds in IPL matches? What could go wrong?
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    27 mins
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  • Episode 7 - Caste, Class and Cricket

    Episode 7 - Caste, Class and Cricket
    Apr 3 2023
    Sunil Gavaskar was accidentally mixed up as a newborn baby. Had his uncle not located him would he still have grown up to become a great cricketer? Indian cricket, like everything Indian, remains tethered to its love affair with discrimination and otherness.
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  • Episode 8 - Fanatic Fans

    Episode 8 - Fanatic Fans
    Apr 3 2023
    In a 2002 India vs West Indies match in Jamshedpur, when the West Indies was about to win, angry Indian fans resorted to vandalism, burning newspapers and property. In cricket, we have often seen passionate fans getting triggered, resulting in violence, which has turned communal so many times!
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