International sports in India are in a free fall. It increasingly appears that not only cricket, but almost every sport associated with India is lurching from one controversy to another, whether driven by poor investments, bad politics, or disastrous optics. At some point, the rest of the world must seriously reconsider how it views India as a destination for global sporting events.

After having effectively truncated a Champions Trophy involving Pakistan and turning it into a political spectacle for the benefit of a supremacist political party, India has once again repeated the pattern even before this year’s Cricket World Cup could begin. Bangladesh is now firmly set against participating in India, and........

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