Blockchain will not bring cricket transparency; it will bring accountability

Blockchain will not make cricket honest; it will make cricket accountable. This essay begins from the night a 380-word lyric about a 0-0 draw was cut to 190 words by a digital editor who added xG (0.42) and 19 shots. That cut taught a Mymensingh-based cricket columnist to anchor every metaphor in a verifiable number. Today cricket's scorecards, contracts, tickets and umpiring decisions live in silos. Blockchain promises an immutable ledger: a scorecard that cannot be altered after the last ball, a smart contract that releases a player's bonus only when conditions are met, a ticket whose resale is visible, and a record of every DRS decision. Yet the contrarian truth is that code is not ethics. If a human enters a wrong delivery, blockchain immortalizes that error. Rural grounds without electricity, scorers who keep paper ledgers, and the emotional pressure of match-fixing remain off-chain. The technology is a door, not a destination. The real task is to write the names of the overlooked into every block.