You are right. I am referring to IPL, immediate provocation being the news that one high profile teams is aborted. This is an epilogue to incidents which resulted in loss of jobs for 2 high profile men and the media blitzkrieg on it. The so called IPL is neither Indian .nor Premier, nor League. There is only very low percentage of Indian players. Quality of Cricket played is anything but premium, Can anyone call this a league when players are auctioned like commodities and are bound to play for their masters who purchased them at massive prices?
An 18th century bard wrote in Malayalam”Kanakam moolam Kamini moolam kalaham palavidham ulakil sulabham”, translated, fights are aplenty in this world due to wealth and woman. How true even in the 21st Centaury! Even if the men are Oxford or IIM educated ,held and/ holding esteemed positions, they are no way different from the primitive man who fought for basic needs like food/shelter/protection and of course for the conjugal rights with females of their choice. Only difference is that basic needs got replaced with wealth. The second one still remains unchanged.
Now, coming to the specifics of de la IPL, we have Lalith Modi who was the Lord of all he surveys in IPL, dames not excluded. Suddenly Shashi Tharoor finds that Kerala can be turned into a paradise if only it has an IPL team.. He sets off with missionary zeal to make that happen. After all he owes at least that much to the hapless people of that state who sent him to Parliament and thereby helped him become a minister-what a fall my countrymen, from a serious candidate for the post of UN secretary General to a thukkada minister of state that too under S M Krishna!
Lalith Modi has no such baggages of the past to embarrass him. But nothing to worry. He is capable of creating baggages for the future. Before any one could utter IPL,. Presto there a plethora of premium tourney players from all over the world prepared to come under the auctioneers hammer and in the process pocketing nice packets of cash..Advertisers, cricket administrators, sychophants, hangers on, all had their fill. With scantly clothed damsels willing to reveal still more spectators also had their fill. Everything went on fine till Tharoor put his hat into the ring with a team from Kochi.Suddenly questions. started Tweeting in…….What way Tharoor is interested in this Mela?Where is the money getting pumped in? Who are the owners of the new Kochi team? Why Modi flouts the law and tells the world about the ownership pattern of the Kochi team whereas the ownership of other teams is a closely guarded secret?
By the bye how much percentile of equity will any levelheaded promoter give to someone who is capable of rendering any valuable help in raising funds or finding players? This episode has demonstrated that if you have a minister as your friend, sky is the limit. Only problem is that sometimes you may have to drop it like hot potato when the minister gets into trouble. If someone has really put is sweat of any sort, can that person throw away corers simply like that?
Now the stake holders have decided to fight it out even if it means that the team will die at the embryo stage itself. De la the two women who approached Emperor Solomon to resolve their claim on a baby.Atleast one of them had the serenity to give up her claim so that the baby lives. But then, life was different. There were no high profile mene difference. Now nobody laments about the loss of paradise due to Kochi IPL team being aborted. There comes the real lesson –nobody in the world is interested in the cause of improving cricket. All in the fray were interested only in Kanakam or Kamini or both .
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