Letter to the Editor

The saga of IPL is getting murkier by the day. What else would you expect when you have such an illogically huge amount of money flowing around, hidden behind bordering on incestuous team ownerships and lately, after the entry of the quintessential villain - the politician, even if unwittingly.
Today's Delhi edition of Indian Express contains my following letter, which is what I think of IPL:


Devil in IPL details

• Apropos the editorial ‘A dash of sunlight’, the whole Tharoor-IPL saga bears out the fact that doomsday calls of cricket puritans over the IPL format are not just empty rhetoric. In the huge marketing carnival that the IPL is, the glorious sport of cricket has been well and truly laid siege to, by obscene amounts of money, lots of tamasha and fluff. And Tharoor is just a trickle — with the kind of money pouring in and the convoluted nature of team ownerships, we can remain assured that there is a deluge of political connections just waiting to be brought to the open.

— Rahul Gaur, Gurgaon

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