Newspapers, Television, Magazines, Hoardings seems like i cannot escape the IPL fever. Such has been the hype and the hoopla surrounding the even that it is hard to refrain myself from watching the games.

To start off let me say upfront that I am not a twenty twenty hater nor am i opposed to the players making big bucks. Media, Music, Movies, Football, Tennis everything got commercialized long back, and in my opinion cricket has joined the party very late. So for people who are crying foul i would advice them to look at their own field first before they go up in arms against cricket.

Having said that i am against plagiarism, I am against monopoly and i am against crony capitalism all of which are things that IPL stands for.

To begin with the entire concept was taken directly from ICL and they have made a few more changes to create ways to make more money ( unethically of course). The regulators who are supposed to supervise the business operations run the business operations and what more they are doing their level best to make sure that parallel leagues (ICL in this case) are finished by employing intimidation tactics.

Democracy today has a new definition which is " By the rich, Of the Rich and For the Rich" and so does Cricket "By BCCI,For BCCI and Of BCCI".

Coming to the entertainment aspect, 270 sixes have been hit, Hold on...Before u jump all over me on hearing that, i would like to ask u one question, How many of those sixes can u recollect??

Sixes have now become so commonplace that it has led to boredom. I do agree that T20 is a batsmen game but that does not mean that u take bowler out of the contest. Flat wickets are fine. But what is not fine is the short boundaries. These short boundaries are taking out some aspects of the game, which are the Running between the wickets and the Decision making of the batsmen.

With the short ropes batsmen just need not think for they know that even mis hits will clear the boundaries comfortably, there by making them dumb. How many threes have we seen so far ? (sorry for troubling u with this difficult question) u will have to think long and hard to come up with the answer for hardly any have been run.

So with some of the interesting aspects thrown out of the window the game has become like a circus show with the bowlers becoming the clowns.

IPL can revolutionize the game but not if it is run this way. More thought needs to be given for otherwise it will be looked up on as an extension of Bollywood, which if it happens will be the biggest disgrace to the game.