IPL Auctions Are Ruining Cricket

The Blueprint To Fix Badminton!

India won the Thomas Cup in 2022. The current team just won a Thomas Cup bronze medal — seeded 8th, finishing in the top 4.And the players said they received almost no support. No recognition. No incentives.At the same time — two international badminton events in India have been cancelled. The Premier Badminton League is scrapped. And the sport that originated in this country is being ignored commercially.At Inner Athlete — we firmly believe badminton is India's second most promising sport after cricket. And it deserves far better.

IPL Auctions Are Ruining Cricket

Can Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar or KL Rahul get into today's Indian T20 side? The Deputy Editor of The Hindu — one of India's most respected cricket journalists — says the honest answer is probably not. And he explains exactly why. Amol Karhadkar joins Inner Athlete for one of our deepest, most wide-ranging cricket conversations ever — covering IPL's evolution, the auction problem, domestic cricket reform, MS Dhoni's character, and the stories from 2008 that nobody else is telling.

Abhishek Bachchan's Euro T20 Gamble

Abhishek Bachchan has done some genuinely good things as a sports entrepreneur. Pink Panthers in Pro Kabaddi — brilliant. Invested in an organic Indian sport, brought star power, helped make the league popular. But the Euro T20 Premier League? That is a completely different story. And at Inner Athlete, we are going to call it out directly.

Watershed Year For Cricket

IPL viewership is down. Ad revenues are decreasing. Governance is under fire. And money is flowing out of Indian cricket into European T20 leagues that haven't proved their business model.Ronald Chettiar joins us for the most honest end-of-season IPL wrap-up covering everything from the governance crisis to the real threat of The Hundred, to why domestic Indian cricket needs urgent reform before it loses out to foreign leagues.

Decoding IPL 2026

🏏 Our final IPL 2026 deep dive is live.MI had Bumrah, Rickleton & Tilak Verma and still had their worst season in years. RCB found their bowling attack and suddenly look unbeatable. KKR were dead and buried, now fighting for the playoffs.We talked about all 10 teams, what worked, what didn't, and what needs to change.One big take: stop dismantling teams at auction. Build. Develop. Stick together.