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What's ailing IPL?
Latest shocking revelation pertaining to ongoing IPL league has once again opened a Pandora's box for T20 cricket. With critics drubbing IPL as 'Indian Paap League', it looks like this much adored form has not only lost it's glory but has lost it's credibility too.
So with some latest shameful revelations governing headlines these days, let's try to find out that what is ailing this shorter form of the cricket. -
Transforming Culture
Hitherto cricket was considered as gentleman's game, but ever since the advent of IPL, it has turned into more of a blend of entertainment and glamour.
From sizzling cheerleaders to late night parties, everything pertaining to IPL has literally toppled the prior notions about cricket. -
Everything is under hammer
Want to own a star-studded cricket team? Pay the franchisee fee or come to auction arena of IPL, bid for your favourite team as high as you can and you got it!
Well with such an organized auctioning structure, there is no denying the fact that IPL is nothing more than commercialization of a game which is considered no less than a religion in this part of the world. -
Players have turned into pony of derby
It's not that it's only the ownership of a team which falls in the purview of the commercialization, even players are available here for sale in IPL arena.
And uptill an extent it's this auctioning trend which has catalyzed player's lust for the money and has transformed them into more of a pony for whom playing, winning and loosing has just three aspects i.e. money, money and loads of money.
Come on guys it's cricket not derby. -
Non-Sportsmen Leading from the front
Another irony of IPL which is somewhat a home-truth pertaining to this form of game is that, destiny and management of this otherwise popular form of cricket is in the hands of such individuals who don't have even remotest association with the cricket field and are rather politicians or the pioneers of business aisles.
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Betting the undeniable home truth
Well it will be wrong to say that, IPL is the only form of cricket which has the intrusion of betting in it, but at the same time another fact which can't be denied is that, because of high octane action and thrill it has, this form of cricket has outmaneuvered every other form of the game to emerge as bookie's paradise.
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Over glamorization of Cricket
From leading business tycoons to cine stars, now everyone is officially associated with this form of cricket. Thanks to IPL, With the stepping of these celebrities on the cricket field, rise in the glamour coefficient of IPL is quite obvious.
And arrival of this necessary evil in IPL has not only diverted the attention of the cricketers from game but have got them more focused towards stardom.
