QED to IPL
M.J. Akbar's write up, in your pages, on IPL's financial misdeeds, is the dirty 'tail' of the tale which finally emerged! Very much like the old saying: "You can fool all the people for some time, and some people for all the time, but not all the people for all the time!" It was time out for IPL and their towering 'six' of a financial deal was caught at the boundary by agile fielders of the 'tax' team!
It reminds one of the other old saying: "Although murder has no tongue, yet it speaks!" All the 'Tamasha' of the galaxy of players hitting 'sixes' galore cheered on by scantily clad colourful cheer-leaders and the vast arena full of spectators, it all came to naught for the promoters-- the behind the scene cunning businessmen out to make money out of the "Greatest Show of Cricket on Earth"!
What a sad and dirty ending to all the fun and frolic. The latest Indian opposition party slogan too is allegorically appropriate and I quote: "Government belongs to IPL, while opposition is concerned with BPL (Below Poverty Line)! Cynics have metamorphosed the Hindi saying from: "Dal mein kuch Kala hai" to "Kala mein kuch dal hai"!
Betting on games' results, match fixing, even talks of bribing players, all conceivable misdeeds are suddenly crowding the 'air waves'! The Cricket Control Board of India, must be laughing up their sleeves, for IPL was set to bring them to heel! Now the inter-state 20/20 competition under ICCB, will be the prime 'Halal' event! Although ICCB, too, is facing a tax investigation, the fallout will be tame, compared to IPL's monumental misdeeds!
Cheer-leaders aside, who will now beat the drums for the behind the scene IPL's organisers who started with a bang and are now fading away "unwept, un-honoured and unsung"! Now the people who conceived IPL are all becoming "Instantly Perishing Liabilities" cricket-wise at least.
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