IPL fiasco in last lap

It seems the IPL imbroglio will take many more days -- even after the IPL finals are over -- to reach its logical end. After Shashi Tharoor’sresignation from the union government, it seems to be the turn of IPL chief Lalit Modi to feel the heat from politicians who missed the IPL bus -- in other words those who failed to gain directly or indirectly from the league.With politicians like Lalu Yadav demanding banning the game in its present form clearly shows the frustration and pain for not being a 'beneficiary' of the game. One can understand this situation since Lalu who despite ruling the Bihar cricket board for past several decades, could not see his son in the playing eleven in IPL though he was part of the Delhi Daredevils team. Of late, the BCCI had also derecognised the Bihar state cricket body. This could be the backdrop of raising such a demand in the Parliament to at least grab some attention from the media, which after his Rashtriya Janata Dal's Lok Sabha debacle has been giving a short shrift to the maverick Bihar leader. Tharoor who presented his side in the Parliament while pleading innocence spoke about his statesmanship as a politician and his aura but could not explain why his resignation was accepted by the prime minister.The income tax action against Modi smacks of political vendetta from the union government after it suffered a huge embarrassment caused by Tharoor.While only time -- and investigations -- will tell if Lalit Modi is involved in any wrong doing, but one has to give him credit for the new dimension he has given to the game of cricket in India through the IPL. If it was Kerry Packer who brought in and popularised one-day cricket, it is Modi who has introduced the modern ‘private’ version of cricket. Many parents today want their children to become cricketers as the new form of cricket has opened doors for manyyoung sportspersons to fulfil their dream of becoming successfulcricketers.