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...
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or for that matter bcci...
we all know that lalit modi is suspended and is served notice for which he has been given 15 days time to answer it... though i wonder they would even bother to take a glance at the reply...
coming back to the point... the charges have been framed... elaborated by bcci president... shashank manohar... explaining the 'irregularity' in initial bids for rajasthan royals and kings xi punjab... the part which catches the eye...
"There is a clause in the agreement, which is entered into with all the franchises, that in case you transfer your shares, the transfer has to be made with the permission of the IPL and the board is entitled to have 5% of the amount of the transaction as their fees. Now nothing of this [sort] has happened. So we are asking an explanation, if A gives the bid, how do you sign agreement with B? How does (sic) all these people get into this? None of us are aware and we don't know who these companies are."
even after trying hard... i could not make the sense out of it... both franchise documents were signed three years ago... so all these three years you were in deep slumber... and now you suddenly woke up and say we did not know... and punish the one who kept awake all this while...?
if this was not enough to prove your selective amnesia...
i chanced upon another gem of yours...
The BCCI chief said Modi would informed about contracts after he had signed them on behalf of IPL and the other parties and the GC will have to pass them as there were no other alternatives.
"And they are brought before the Governing Council after the contracts are signed. So the Governing Council has no other option and are presented with a fait accompli," Manohar said while explaining about the murky deals that have come under the scanner of the Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate departments.
err... wait a minute... did you just said all contracts used to come to you pre-signed and you (and GC) had no alternative but to sign them...? even if we believe it for a moment for the sake of argument... then how you would explain it with your your charges on modi that you (and gc) were not aware of any contracts or dealings done by him...?
do you really want us to take this bullshit as lollipop which will not only keep us busy but also keep our mouth shut sucking it...?
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