During this hullabaloo of spot-fixing and betting in the IPL, the new BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has finally decided to clean-up the tournament. Before he could implement this noble act, the IPL teams expired.
A sheepish Dalmiya regretted in a press conference after the event that it is hard to believe the incident. He wanted to eliminate all the teams that were allegedly involved in corruption and associated with bookies, middlemen, betters and the guys who made the Musli Powder ad. Bizarrely, it came to light that all the teams are corrupt and now there are no teams left to play the IPL! This unique problem has created hassles for many people.
Let me start with the franchises. Royal Challengers Bangalore chief Vijay Mallya who is already confused with his two businesses Kingfisher Airlines and RCB finally quizzed that just because they manipulated emotions, built up emotions and put thousands down, smashed the hopes of so many, withheld payments doesn’t mean they need to stop being in business, isn’t it?
On the players side, bowler RP Singh of RCB questioned that for whom should he play for? Which franchise would be stupid enough to select him? His teammate Chris Gayle was pessimistic too. With a sigh of despair he regretted that he will be playing for just eight T20 teams this year.
Now let me focus on the organizers. Like everyone, initially they were shocked too. Finally, they got enlightened with the benefits of the IPL without any teams which were actually proved to be quite convenient. One doesn’t have to spend money on hosting the matches, need not listen to the spectator’s complaint about stadium quality, need not listen to those idiotic babbling, no confusion over the location of the finals…An excited SET MAX employee yelled that all they need to do is listen to Samir Kochchar making some noise on air and things are done! When interrogated whether people would tune in to view a game when there was, in fact no cricket, he indicated it as the IPL. Great answer isn’t it? Just imagine a game in IPL where some cheerleaders are told to randomly dance around flanked by some weird ads and above all a screaming Danny Morrison. Won’t the people be amazingly entertained?
A BCCI official announced that in order to avoid confusion, the winner of the IPL7 will be strictly decided by a lucky draw. Undoubtedly, Sir Jadeja will be man of the series. He ended with a hearty wink that only Jadeja is capable of doing that in a series that he didn’t play.
At last Purists of the game commented that during their days if they wanted to ensure that a team never played again, they just requested them to bat against the 70s West Indies pace assault.
