da heads bet： A new book chronicles the league’s off-field progress over its nine seasons and offers a strong argument for why India needs laws to deal with sporting fraud
da apostebet： Suhrith Parthasarathy16-Jul-2016″I am extremely proud that whatever we have seen over the last 44 days is a product of India,” said the president of the BCCI, Sharad Pawar, after the final of the IPL’s inaugural edition in 2008. At that point it was perhaps not immediately evident that the league’s bedrock wasn’t strong enough for it to continue to instil in its organisers a sense of pride. Indeed, over the course of eight further seasons, the IPL’s regression – via controversies both on and off the field, and deeply entrenched conflicts of interest – has been so complete that in spite of maintaining a sense of legitimacy amongst its participants, it has increasingly, for at least some of the public, become synonymous with all that is wrong with modern-day cricket.Amid the hullabaloo, though, it has been undeniable that the IPL has had a deep impact on cricket as a sport and as a business. And it’s the latter aspect that , the Delhi-based sports lawyer Desh Gaurav Sekhri’s book, seeks to concentrate on.Thus far, in spite of the fact that in just nine seasons the IPL has transformed the way we view cricket, we haven’t had a detailed account, of any reasonable length, chronicling its story. In to sport.For those undoubting of the IPL’s contribution to sport, as to those more sceptical of its inherent values, Sekhri’s book offers a useful reminder of the facts that underscore the various arguments.Not Out! The Incredible Story of the Indian Premier League
By Desh Gaurav Sekhri
Viking
256 pages, Rs 330