Mukul Kesavan's IPL experience

Mr. Kesavan watched an IPL game and ... well, read yourself.

Here's an excerpt on his views on IPL

The IPL formula seems to go like this: take an abbreviated game, buy multi-star teams, chuck into pot with a ladleful of film-star flash, bus in a non-paying public with tiny attention spans, distract them with fireworks and other diversions, and sell the lot to an ambitious television channel. Only, somewhere along the way, Lalit Modi and his Money Men, mislaid the cricket.