I’m surprised how the mother ship abandoned its kid just when the kid got into trouble. Isn’t it true mothers protect kids even if the kids try to distance themselves. Authority and autonomy is something every entity and more so the management years for! And it is like “free stuff or concessions to the public”. Once given it can never be taken back without someone’s dirty linen being dragged to attention.
Me and millions or arguably billions, considering the population explosion, who consider cricket as a religion and follow it everyday, IPL has been a real great entertainer. Some independent company apparently values it over $4 billion. BCCI’s annual revenue is deemed to be around $2 billion. From Modi’s interview in March (prior to the grand success of IPL 3) I learn that the BCCI earns $7 million a day while IPL earns about $1.3 million a day (both annualized I guess). Any business that gives the mother ship around 20% revenues is significant enough to warrant a close daily look
To his credit, it has been Modi’s charisma that made IPL as popular with the media, cinema and party circles. However, Cricket takes care of the public attention anyways!! Am not a supporter of any one person in authority. All I want is a fair deal!! If someone did something murky and against the law, they need to face the music.
So much has been talked about financial irregularities in IPL.. Too much attention for anything that generates TRP is news enough for channels to repeat it over and over!! Was this money the tax payers money? How is the common man affected by this?? How the f&*^ do I care if Modi bought a jet from a kick-back when none of it involves my money. And tax irregularities and unaccounted money does result in tax revenue loss for the country which is a public problem. A sizeable chunk of my country’s Parliament Members – THE PEOPLE WHO RULE THE COUNTRY and decide the laws and policies for one of the fastest growing nation in the world have corruption cases against them!!!! And this is tax money that belong to common man, be it Ambani or Amitabh or an under-paid government employee..
Problems: BCCI is too big and important to be un-regulated. Too many politicians involved in the administration resulting in a greater political interference. BCCI officials or relatives or people who are close enough to get information that is not public hold stake in IPL teams. Government taking over this is definitely not an answer.
I don’t know what the solution is, but nothing at the cost of the game.. I would love IPL 4 and more!!
