The Good - It's official. The IPL is set to clash with the lucrative NBA, NHL and NFL. Lalit Modi has announced that the IPL will go all the way west in the next few years.
The next set of 66 foreign players will go under the hammer tomorrow as IPL 3.0 gets set to roll off. The original list was pruned down to 97 from 66 after the iron hand of Lalit Modi hammered out a few names from the list. For the list go here.
The Bad - There is yet another twist to the IPL influenced by India politics. Mumbai and Punjab fans might not get to see Aussie players playing on their home grounds owing to threats from respective local political parties. It's getting inevitable - the IPL and India politics are getting too intertwined. Soon it will reach a point of no return! Now that has put a lot of Aussie players and their teams unsteady on their feet. Imagine DC without Gilly and Symonds or CSK without Hayden and Hussey or KXIP without Bret or for that matter KKR without Ponting and Hodge! Come on people - go dive into that new list of 67 and find someone!!
There is more bad news for CSK - Freddy is off IPL 3.0 - hasn't recovered yet.
The Ugly - When Lalit Modi scrapped Chris Cairns off the IPL auction list he was bold enough to say that Cairns was involved in match fixing and was therefore off the list. But let me get something clear here. Cairns was accused by the ICL of match fixing. Modi and the BCCI do not recognize ICL. Now how is it that Modi recognizes only ICL's accusations? Not that I am in favor of match fixers, but just being curious.
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