No holy cow may save Indian sports.Judicial act spares scammy IPL.
Palash Biswas
Long live IPL. Lalit Modi gone.IPL continued.Srini replaced by interim BCCI President Sunil Gavaskar only to manage the scammy skinny IPL. Indian politics is inflicted with corruption. But Indian Sports seem to be overloaded with corruption.
So, here you are!Without giving any opinion on the merits of the allegations against BCCI president N. Srinivasan, the Supreme Court on Friday appointed the former India skipper, Sunil Gavaskar, as the interim president of the board to discharge the functions of the Indian Premier League 2014 until its final order on the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal.
Gavaskar is chosen only to sustain the betting vicious cycle and the IPL Casino.A Bench of Justices A.K. Patnaik and Ibrahim Kalifulla, however, permitted both Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals to participate in this year’s IPL that commences on April 16.
“We make it clear that we have not passed any order preventing any player or any team from participating in the IPL tournament 2014.”
“Considering the fact that Mr. Sunil Gavaskar was a cricket player of great repute and eminence, a captain of the Indian cricket team and has wide experience in cricket-related activities, we appoint him president of the BCCI in relation to IPL 2014,” it observed.
The court directed that other responsibilities of the board be performed by BCCI vice-president Shivlal Yadav.
The Bench said, “We also direct that till we deliver the judgment, none of the employees of India Cements Limited or its associate companies [except cricket players or commentators] will perform any of the duties assigned to them by the BCCI.”
Appearing for the BCCI, senior counsel Aryama Sundaram took exception to the allegations levelled by senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for the Cricket Association of Bihar, against India captain M.S. Dhoni.
Mr. Salve had argued that Mr. Dhoni gave a false statement that Gurunath Meiyappan, Mr. Srinivasan’s son-in-law , was only a cricket enthusiast.
Free Markets sports policy made a scapegoat of a beautiful batsman named Md.Azaharuddin.
Now,it seems to be the turn of MS Dhoni who happens to be the best match finisher.
Meanwhile a set of young brilliant cricket players led by speedster Shreeshant have been sacrificed saving the unholy business.
No doubt, Sunil Gavaskar is a living legend.But he is now reduced to a marketing icon only deeply engaged in sports business.
How may Gavaskar and Yadav clean the rot within unless the system survives to inflict sports?
Saurabh Ganguli did an excellent job to lead Indian cricket out of match fixing scandal.We were relieved.
What happened next?For whose cause Ganguli was dethroned and who played the game for the grand take over?
Hancy cronje was killed.South African Cricket survived.
What happened to Indian Cricket?
What happened to Indian sports after all?
IPL is not all about cricket.Rather it is the casino economics we opted for us.
IPL has inflicted Hockey as well as Tennis.
We were not sure this morning whether MS Dhoni would take field today.Now,we do celebrate entry into T20 world cup semi finals.Led by Dhoni,India became the first team to qualify for the semifinals of the ICC World Twenty20 after routing hosts Bangladesh by eight wickets in a thoroughly one-sided Group II match.
Had Dhoni been banned, Virat would have been Indian Captain since today.
Then we had to begin afresh to wait for Kohli being inflicted.
Our players belong to common people whom sports elevated to iconic status.Then,they fall in the trap.Hijacked for business interest and remote controlled by people like Shrini.
Believe me,as it happened time and again,nothing is going to change.
Lalit Modi smiles all the way.
Kalmadi has earned enough and he lost nothing losing Loksabha ticket from a losing party.
Monopolistic regime in Indian sports may not end anyway.No one is responsible to anwer the masses and the Nation.
What price did shashi Tharoor paid at all?
Shrini would return with glittering honours and the players have to pay.
Are we ready to lose Anil Kumble or Sachin Tendulkar or Rahul Dravid or Sania Mirza or PT Usha or Rathor and Sinha, Anand,Bhupati and Liander who carried national flag all these years just for the sake of some or other IPL.
Why IPL should not be scrapped?
Why India Incs should take over Indian sports just because they pay the expenses?
Gavaskar to run IPL 2014
CSK, RR can participate; Shivlal Yadav to handle other BCCI matters
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