since the inception... ipl is consistently accused for brazen display of wealth... even the fines that were slapped on captains for slow over rates were seen as nothing but another attempt to display its wealth and how cash rich is ipl by so called experts...
so by that token... what you would say about $20m on display like this...? charity...?
lalit modi has been accused of having and talking to two phones simultaneously... poor guy... if only he knew the art of keeping his hands free and invited wife of a cricketer to sit on his lap...
ED and IT department are after the murky dealings... source of finances... and money laundering in ipl... even after the witch hunt to find something fishy... the best govt has come up so far is to declare the balance sheets of franchisees are in order and that no company has given sweat equity to anyone...
but what about this...?
even after the source of finances, in this case allen stanford, who had the murkier past even before going in dealing with ecb... was arrested for the fraud and money laundering... no head rolled in ecb... infact giles clarke, the chairman of ecb, refused to resign after the standford fiasco... and still continues as the one...
oh! i got it now... with the arrest of stanford... everything in the ecb and its dealings of '$20m a match t20 tournament' with stanford got automatically cleaned up...so why should have giles clarke resigned... right...?
update:
thanks to friends and fellow bored members namya and homer... who directed me to this brilliant piece of cricket journalism...The ECB might not have needed much encouragement to jump into the arms of Allen Stanford but it was Modi who pushed them there. The Sri Lankan board has largely lost control of its players, whom it cannot play anything like as well as the IPL. West Indies cricket continues to fragment as some of its best players seem to barely want to bother turning up for “national” duty.
aha... now i know why giles clarke not resigned... now i know why these poor ecb chaps made their cricketer's wives sit on saint stanford's lap... what else but the mother-of-all-cricketing-problems ipl... thanks for enlightening me friends...
