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The Case of “Amateur” Baseball Federation of India: Analysis Through Competition Lens
[By Pranav Tomar & Umang Chaturvedi] The authors are students at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala. Introduction The commercialization of sports has strongly affected the landscape of sports federations in India. Now, these associations/federations act not only as regulators of domestic sports or facilitators to sportspersons but also add value to business…
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Board of Control for Cricket in India [BCCI] to Athletic Federation of India [AFI]: An Evolving Jurisprudence on Sports-Competition Law
[Pradyumna Yadav] The author is a 2nd year student of UPES, Dehradun. Introduction Sporting Regulatory Authorities or SRAs are established in India with a primary objective of controlling, promoting, regulating and selecting teams for their specific sports. Amongst all SRAs, the most prominent one is Board of Control for Cricket in India or BCCI, a…
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Match Fixing: Need for a Better Legislation
Match Fixing: Need for a Better Legislation. [Saumya Agarwal] The author is a 3rd year B.A.LLB (Hons.) student of NLIU, Bhopal Introduction Match fixing has become a part and parcel to almost every existing sport in the world and has flexed its arms to tarnish the basic ethnicity of the term Sports. Oxford dictionary defines…
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Sandpapergate: ICC’s Failure to Save the Spirit of the Game from Orchestrated Cheating
Sandpapergate: ICC’s Failure to Save the Spirit of the Game from Orchestrated Cheating. [Ayushi Singh] The author is a third-year student at National Law University, Jodhpur. She may be reached at ayushisingh3004@gmail.com. The South Africa-Australia Test Series saga has not stopped unravelling since the ball-tampering scandal was captured on live telecast during the third test match.…