Cricket statistics—that bringer of unadulterated joy—normally doesn’t cover this. Everyone knows, as a general but vague truth, that cash flows in the Indian cricket Board’s coffers like runs from the blade of an ace batsman—but exactly how much, and more importantly, how? In October 2015, Shashank Manohar, the then BCCI president, made a first-of-its-kind move towards transparency: he commissioned an audit into the accounts of all state associations. With its penchant for playing ostrich at the whiff of a scandal in all its 88-year existence, the call for a close scrutiny of the Board’s accounts shocked many.