… Of Indian cricket? That’s the survey that ESPN Star Sports, the channel that broadcasts the Champions League across India, just showed on its coverage. 82% say ‘Yes’. The owner, head person, commissioner, oligarch and basic god of Indian Twenty20 is the saviour of Indian cricket according to everyone but a disruptive 18%.

The Indian journalists in the press box have only just stopped laughing, especially as Modi has a healthy-hand in what gets broadcast when.

Apparently, Ravi Shastri once called him Moses.

The truth is he’s a stellar version of Giles Clarke with much more balls (and money).

Edward Craig is deputy editor of The Wisden Cricketer