If you are the cricket fan, you would be well aware about the latest and most popular Indian Premier League, also known as IPL T20. Concept of the Indian Premier League was just a answer to the Zee Entertainment’s Indian Cricket League, headed by Former Captain of Indian Cricket Team [Kapil Dev]. The Concept of the Indian Premier League [Man behind the IPL T20: Mr Lalit Modi] was of its in the game called Cricket. After the success of Indian Cricket Team at the First Ever Twenty20 World Cup held in 2008, Twenty 20 was the most viewed format of the game.
Birth of a New Era in the Cricket World has been defined by IPL, as it is a format used by the English premier league in the Football, there are the private owners of the teams and they have to bet for the best players to be in their team. The First Season of the fantasy premier leagues includes the Eight Teams, which are as follows:
- Kolkota Knight Riders
- Delhi Dare Devils
- Chennai Super Kings
- Hyderabad Deccan Chargers
- Bangalore Royal Challengers
- Rajasthan Royals
- Mumbai Indians &
- Punjab Kings XI
The Cricketing World has become smaller than ever, as players from different countries are playing for the same team and most importantly enjoying the same. The TRP of the Indian Premier league has even crossed the most successful event of the Cricket World, i.e. Twenty20 World Cup 2008.
What makes it more interesting is the Amount of the Money Flowing in the Cricket and the players, As Said by the Mr Modi, to the Media: “If we would not have limited the amount of the Money, for which the team players has to be bought, then our cricket players would have been the most paid sports person in the world”
I am Passionate for the Game we called as Cricket and by introduction of the T20 Format, I don’t have the words to define my so called passion. If you are also passionate about the IPL, don’t forget to cheak out all the updates, highlights, standing and related news on my blog on IPL Twenty20.
The Indian cricket league has fired the imagination of people all over the world. For once cricket which was poor sport in relation to golf and football has become at par with them. This is no doubt because of the Indian cricket league; cricket has become the power house of the game as far as finance is concerned.
But all is not rosy and underneath the underbelly black money and flaunting of foreign exchange regulations is perhaps more the rule than the exception. Some time back Mahesh Bhat that intelligent Mumbai producer had produced ‘Jannat’ a movie with cricket and its nexus with betting and match fixing as its background. The movie brought out the connection between black money and cricket.
‘Jannat’ was only a story, but the sad part is that it is turning out to be real. The toll has been heavy to start with. Shashi Tharoor the Junior Minister in the Indian cabinet had to resign last month. Whether he had any significant role to play or was only a front man may not be established. But the result of Tharoor’s resignation has wide ramifications. Available evidence certainly suggests that all is not well with the financial dealings of the premier League.
The matters that need to be probed are no longer limited to the last auction where the Kochi team were the winners, but needs to cover the entire league which is under a cloud of suspicion. A clean up of the cricket establishment led by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) and its child the IPL has become essential. The BCCI has acted and suspended Lalit Modi as the CEO of the ICL. But this may not be enough to find out the route of black money from the Gulf into this game.
Cricket in India the cricket game to earn money is more of a religion and has a tremendous following. Thus when the idea of the IPL was mooted it was thought that it would give a much needed boost to cricket at the grass roots level. More money was expected to flow in and the lame of cricket was expected to benefit with better pay packets for cricketers at the grass roots level. But the organizers were perhaps too naive or careless and allowed slush funds and sleaze money to flow in as a natural corollary.