Re-think on IPL

Indian Premier League (IPL) is defaming the gentleman game of cricket. It has been primarily formed to make money, offer politicians top level post and enjoy romancing. IPL Franchise owners, players and politicians have made the game of cricket a mockery. IPL has been plagued by match fixing, brawl by famous owner of KKR and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and the charge of molestation against an Australian player of RCB. The charge about an attempt of rape is the most unsavoury incident of the IPL. The way young girls are engaged to encourage the players of different teams during IPL matches only shows the hunger for earning more and more by hook or by crook. IPL is against the game of cricket in India. It should be dissolved as early as possible. Otherwise, the players of the national team will concentrate less in the One-day or the Test matches more in IPL matches to make money in a very short time. IPL is their instant source of money. The falling standard of Test and One-Day matches in the field reflects all the evils borne out of IPL. The franchise owners in the IPL offer huge money to players to play cricket for their team. The players have an easy source of money. They take huge money and play better to increase their amount of contract in the next IPL matches. The players play for their team in IPL with more concentration than what they play for the national team. They also want to earn more in a very short time. Another huge controversy has struck the IPL with an Australian player Pomersbach with Royal Challengers Bangalore being arrested on charges of molesting an Indian American woman and severely attacking her fiancee leaving him in hospital. Pomersbach has been granted bail According to the police, 27-year-old Australian player Luke Pomersbach allegedly misbehaved with the woman, a US citizen of Indian origin, at the Maurya Sheraton Hotel here last night and has been arrested. The court has granted him bail. All these developments show how deep degeneration has set in official and players of IPL that they can go to any extent for pleasure and money.