"Of course a cricket game is immense. If you come to an IPL game or a T20 or an international match in India, it's extremely noisy in India and I didn't see that noise level up other than maybe a couple of home runs and then suddenly everybody goes up. Otherwise in India for every four in a Twenty20, you get about five home runs in an over and if Chris Gayle is batting six home runs.I, like all agents, can never go completely off the grid. My phone stays on next to the bed, I have chargers all over the house and office and in my briefcase. Agents can go on vacations but their phone will always be close by and we better be ready to handle any client situation that arises at any time.

Over at Field of Schemes, Neil deMause, who followed our rush to construction with undisguised dismay, says: "To be fair, the state gambling board says that it came up with its own projections, then merely ran them by gambling industry representatives to check their accuracy before re