| Did I waste my time while I laughed, cried, screamed, | | | | lavishness...a game of sports and entertainment. Until |
| shouted and tweeted my way in exhilaration, as I | | | | of course this month when a series of tweets |
| watched the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 season | | | | between Lalit Modi and a prospective candidate of |
| 3 cricket matches this year? This is indeed the | | | | the newly endorsed Kochi team, opened up the |
| question I ask myself umpteen numbers of times, | | | | Pandora's box...exposing the "can of worms". |
| since the rotten affair of the IPL has been brought | | | | Eventually, the cricket format which earned good |
| to light by the media and by the governing council of | | | | name, was now branded as a game of slush money, |
| cricket in India. | | | | kickbacks and match-fixing. Allegedly, kickbacks in |
| And why only accuse the 58 matches this year | | | | crores were earned by commissioner & imposter, |
| (minus two matches which I ignored after the IPL | | | | Lalit Modi, and also by a few team owners and |
| scam broke out) for killing our time over doctored | | | | officials who were hand-in gloves with the IPL chief. |
| matches and inadvertently contributing towards filling | | | | Don't loose our dinosaur |
| deep pockets of the governing body. In fact, we | | | | IPL T20 cricket is a milking cash cow for the Indian |
| have been duped for not realising this way back in | | | | government...bringing in the monies that the governing |
| year 2008 when IPL was baptized as a new "fatafat" | | | | authorities need to realise its infrastructural, health, |
| (quick) cricket format. This was in fact the same | | | | and educational promises made to the people of this |
| year when planet earth was hit by recession and | | | | country. After the "Braking exposé" of all the |
| every business, investors, public sector companies, | | | | sham-scam's in IPL management three years from its |
| consumers, and those doing something for a living, | | | | inception, there are plans of putting the entire billion |
| was feeling the pinch of the recession....except, IPL | | | | dollar project to rest. However, the question to ask |
| Cricket which was and is still believed to be inimitably | | | | here is....Should we really suspend a project which |
| "recession proof". | | | | displayed the highest earnings on our balance sheet? |
| The invincible T20 format | | | | Or should we crackdown and remove the filth in the |
| IPL cricket take-off in the year 2008 was | | | | system in the first place. |
| unforgettably the biggest billion dollar creative project | | | | If you ask me, I believe we should clean up the |
| commissioned by flamboyant Mr. Lalit Modi, whose | | | | system firsthand by amputating the rotten arm of |
| daring marketing and branding techniques and | | | | the IPL and retain the good portion....before season |
| out-of-the-box thinking, made the T20 format the | | | | IV takes off next year. In chorus, we need to get |
| world's best cricketing set-up ever made in history. | | | | people with an energetic and positive mindset to |
| Each of the eight teams competing in IPL are | | | | handle IPL affairs. In fact, flamboyancy to some |
| composed of high profile cricketers from different | | | | extent is mandatory to give this game an |
| nations, thus making this the world's first | | | | entertaining zing. |
| "Cosmopolitan" game ever. | | | | And when the God of cricket and master blaster, |
| Glorifying sophisticated thugs | | | | Sachin Tendulkar himself says that, "IPL will |
| In a span of just 3yrs, IPL came to be known as a | | | | overcome current crisis,"...we should seriously take |
| game which entertained its spectators both on the | | | | this demigod's conviction to save this God like game |
| grounds and off the grounds with its grandiosity and | | | | of IPL. |