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DEBATE OF THE DAY

Should the IPL be delinked from the BCCI?

(5795 Votes)

Should the IPL be treated only as an entertainment league and be separate from the national cricket body?

Defending the motion

Durga Raghunath

The Mumbai Mirror makes the point today that the IPL should be viewed as a pure entertainment league and the highest and most powerful cricket body in India, the BCCI should delink itself from the jamboree. I agree with this for two reasons - one, it's good for the IPL that the team management takes ownership of their teams. Currently they appear during the auction and as cheerleaders, to make them more accountable for player behaviour is important. And two, the BCCI cannot independently act against anyone in the IPL when they have so much to lose in lieu of their deep financial involvement in the format.read less read more

Against the motion

Ashish Magotra

It must but can it be done? It one thing to dream of utopia and quite another to watch it become reality. Will the BCCI want IPL to flourish if they can have no part of the profits it generates? Will the ICC allow IPL to even take place? More than half the BCCI's revenues come from the IPL now. There is no way they will allow this to happen and there's no way to force them to do this either.read less read more

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  • Not only BCCI - first Mr Srinivasan should be delinked from IPL. Its strange that the media does not get "news" about Srinivasan's largar than life involvement in Indian cricket. He is the the de facto selector, he is the defacto financial controller (my my) he is the decision maker of anything remotely associated with BCCI. It is very strange that now media wants Srinivasan to answer the questions on spot fixing. Every administrative rule which could have been broken, has been broken during his tenure, and public memory is very very shot (VVS). We are just not talking about cash flow here. we are talking about transparency of a sport and its associated primary org.

  • Me Toooo

  • Its not letting Yeddy leave..its how the BJP handled the Yeddy issue/Karnataka that cost the BJP..look at its rival party how it handles the corrupt ministers and how it gets them back from back door manages to keep the flock together..When you are contesting with in such a situation...there is no point in loosing in a state and saying its good in center, long term..

  • SRK has behaved abnormally at many places before. This time he gets caught, because this time it was not at all acceptable. He must be taught a lesson. He must learn decent behaviour from other celebrities who are more successful than him, for ex. Salman khan, or big Hollywood celebrities and star players like Ricky Ponting, Jac Kallis etc. A successful person who is really a winner never has arrogance in him. He is always down to the earth, because he knows that he is the winner, and he also knows with how much hard work he has earned the respect he has now.

  • You are a moron.

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