Friday, April 17, 2009

Is IPL more of entertainment than cricket?



New Delhi: IPL fever is setting in and the everyone including publications are cashing in. A complete book on the IPL and an official magazine are on spread. Here's a close look at both. It was Kafkaesque. Existential, since one man was working against all odds to shape his own destiny. Add petty politics, oversized egos and arrogance.

Apart from a heady fact file on all the IPL teams how can words like Kafkaesque, arrogance and oversized egos when combined with cricket not grab attention?

This book on the IPL starts with some plain speaking -- the authors, both journalists are more than a little critical of IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, especially on the decision to move season two out of the country.

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