Indian Premier League For Cricket

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Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders

Sri Lanka Cricket Board Chairman Arjuna Ranatunga asked where is the fee for the Sri Lankan Board. The Sri Lanka players, the franchises, the Indian Board and host of others made pots of money but the Sri Lankan board hasn’t seen a pie of it. So, why should our players have to miss International tournaments with other nations to play in the local domestic tournament of India asked Ranatunga.

The Champions League - after much deliberation about where it should be held - will after all be played in India. September 29 - Oct 9th will see the Champions sides from different countries locking horns at Mohali, Jaipur and Delhi. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals will be the two Indians teams in the fray.

Yes, the news is out. From 2011 you will have 3 more teams joining the present 8. The possible new teams will be from Pune, Vadodara or Ahmedabad, Lucknow or Kanpur. There has been clamour for more teams to join the fray and the BCCI buoyed by the unprecendented success of the IPL has decided to oblige. But making it bigger at this stage won’t be fair on the 8 teams already in the competition.

The BCCI has earned a profit of 250 crores from the first IPL and this was being distributed among the state associations to improve their infrastructure said the BCCI head Sharad Pawar.

The IPL is a prime target for match fixing. Well, no crystal balls needed for that. Even your 14-year old nephew will be able to tell you that. Now, that the ICC has come out with a report about the dangers of IPL, match fixing and its effect on other forms of cricket.

IPL has seen huge investments of money and ego. Big businessmen with loads of money to play with and even bigger egos to satisfy and who are known for their fabulous successes in the world of business where they make things happen are not going to sit and watch their teams being walloped just because a out-of-form cricketer did not bat well or dropped a catch.

Some, might let the cricketers take the big decisions and play according to their strengths others will involve themselves in every aspect even in those matters where they don’t have any expertise still others will quitely buy out the opposition. Scary scenario?

But very, very likely. Don’t you agree?

Cricket and match fixing are no strangers. Cricketers has always proved an easy target for match fixers.

Now, the only difference might be that the team owners fix the results over a bottle of finest wine in the most exclusive of clubs.

Why, this should seem strange to anyone is beyond me. IPL has been designed to provide maximum entertainment to the crowds that want instant gratification. It’s like a 3 hours bollywood movie and crowds mind you are looking for paisa vasool.

The first installment attracted the crowds inspite of poor performances by their teams - as they were there for the novelty value of seeing their local cricketers playing with the big names in the cricketing world. But, the second time around the poor performances and outright bad cricket isn’t going to be easily forgiven. The fans will want their pound of flesh and who better to provide it than the team owners!!