Manoj Monoblogues

C - CRICKET (INDIAN PHANNY LEAGUE)

Its more than an year and half since my last and only blog... But something ' s pushing me to write... its nothing but the CIRCUS In TOWN - IPL (India Premier League). There are lot of expansions for IPL other than the obvious, for instance Indian Paisa League, Indian Political League, Indian Panga League, I have decided to join the bandwagon and give it my version, "Indian Phanny League". Phanny as in Funny... coz it is funny.

The incidents happening in and around the IPL, just proves the saying "Higher you go Harder you Fall". The argument is mainly based on the fact people have made money and tons of it. My argument is that when the IPL was conceptualised, it was meant for the making of those tons of money. The whole business model of IPL is that everyone involved in this is making money. The IPL commissioner, the IPL Governing Council members, BCCI, Franchisees, the Media, the players and anyone involved has made the money. People are saying that its all Public money, to them I say this: No one is forcing us to go and watch the match at the stadium or on the Television. We can always boycott the matches in the stadium and can switch channels. We are all watching this because it is an interesting, short version of the game and it is economically viable for almost everyone (atleast in the cities where they are held). So its not just or right to complain that they are playing with our money. The valid reason for us to worry about our hard earned money is when companies holding the shares of the Franchises have used the funds generated from the public (through stocks, shares or any other mode). But I have defense on behalf of the companies on this too, you are earning dividends and profit shares from the money you invested. The returns received by you are part of the profits of the company and the IPL is a PROFIT MAKING business. So as a matter of fact the public is actually earning money rather than losing it (or at least those of us who have invested in the franchisees or their affiliates).

The funny fact is that all this Tamasha had started from "God's Own Country" trying get into this Circus; leading one to believe that probably not even God could get in if He wanted to (its my personal interpretation of course!). The fact of the IPL Governor being a sort of Untouchable needs to be changed at any cost. First of all the IPL organisation cannot be a private sort of organisation, it needs to be in the Public Forum at all times. The issue I have here is in the way that this 'event' is being managed, so bizzare and phanny (using it again). Politicians and media both trying very hard to show that they are getting to the root of the problem but what they are actually doing is protecting their own interests. Where the question of 'Public Interest' arises in this I am not sure.

The corruption in the IPL is something that needs to be looked into by the authorities coz as they are digging deeper into it they ought to be finding things which are really crappy and unethical. The looking needs to be done by people who are in public agencies like IT, ED or CBI departments, and never ever by the politicians. The politicians who are accusing and counter accusing are not Raja Harishchandras infact they are worse than the worst liars in the history and more corrupted than.. don't know whom to compare them with.. just know that they are the worst. So when they are talking about all this in the media, don't really know why the journalists are not able to turn around and ask them how can they be questioning, when they do almost everything above the law.

Don't really know what you guys will make of this blog and don't really know how to conclude this but let me just say that if "All's Well That Ends Well", then for our sakes... let this end as "BAD OUT and GOOD STAY".