In 1996 India co-hosted cricket's World Cup but, more significantly, revolutionised the game's financial base by engineering a massive rise in television rights fees.

Since then, India's playing success and its massive financial contribution to cricket have challenged both the game's traditional governance patterns and its way of doing things. Some critics, for example, see India's emphasis on 20/20 cricket as a debased mixture of sport, Bollywood, celebrity, media and froth. Others see it as the game's international future. That controversy is matched by India's apparent influence over all aspects of the modern game, some observers now suggesting that influence has become far too pervasive.

Malcolm Speed (former CEO International Cricket Council and Australian Cricket Board) and Brian Stoddart (former Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University, consultant, sports analyst and writer) discuss all these and many other aspects of India's role in modern cricket.

This free public lecture forms part of the India Update, a two-day event jointly organised by the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific and the University of Canberra.