21 May 2010: Quote of the day: 21/05/2010
“We pissed off a lot of people” – Lalit Modi, speaking at a conference in Watford gives a sneak preview of his defence strategy.
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24 Apr 2010: Quote of the day: 24/04/2010
“In his final hours as the choreographer of India’s biggest sporting spectacle, Modi has become a synonym for the unholy alliance of cricket, politics and business in which everything-honour, morality and transparency-seems negotiable. Today, it is as if his sensational success, worth a few billions, provides the first draft of his obituary” – India Today recasts the toppling IPL impresario in the model of a Shakespearean tragic hero. Do read the whole thing – it will amply repay your time.
20 Apr 2010: Quote of the day: 20/04/2010
“India’s finance minister said ‘no wrong-doer would be spared’ in the probe into the league’s funding. But IPL chief Lalit Modi denies any allegations of funding irregularities” – Schadenfreude is bad. Yes it is. Bad. Now stop that outrageous laughter at once.
14 Apr 2010: Quote of the day: 14/04/2010
“I was speaking to Paul Collingwood and we’d have liked to have had our bowlers here learning. A lot of our players should definitely have put their names in the hat” – KP on why even more key England players should be risking burn-out, injury and long lay-offs in the IPL. No, hang on, that’s not right…
3 Apr 2010: Quote of the day: 3/04/2010
“The Warne face now seems hauntingly unlined, skimmed with TV gloss, as though he alone exists in a parallel dimension of benevolent soft focus. Watching him bossing his Rajasthan Royals players around I assumed at first this was a brilliantly innovative import from his expertise at the card table: the skipper’s new unreadable poker face, ice cool even in the white heat of the most enervating Pot Noodle Moment Of Occasional Mild Tension” – The Guardian’s Barney Ronay either speculates unkindly or tries to spin an extended metaphor. Not sure which, actually.
27 Mar 2010: Quote of the day: 27/03/2010
“The IPL. Great concept, but what an annoying circus it has become” – Simon Hughes, like the rest of us, has noticed a somewhat modest standard of play in IPL3.
23 Mar 2010: Quote of the day: 23/03/2010
“Dimitri Mascarenhas’ Achilles injury has been described as ‘a little worse than originally feared’. The Hampshire captain hurt his Achilles while playing for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League last week, and team captain Shane Warne announced the all-rounder would have to leave the tournament” – another IPL injury strikes a potential England player. Mascarenhas had been included on the long-list for the ICC World Twenty20, due to be halved on March 30.
15 Mar 2010: IPL: But where's Chris Waddle?
So, thanks to the genius and vision of Lalit Modi (or something) we can all watch the IPL for free on YouTube or on an obscure ITV channel. And what is the verdict on what we have seen?
9 Mar 2010: Quote of the day: 9/03/2010
“To lightly paraphrase the late Dr H.S. Thompson, ‘The sports business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men Ldie like dogs. There is also a negative side’” – The Old Batsman’s mind is on Lalit Modi and the IPL.
25 Feb 2010: Quote of the day: 25/02/2010
“The concept of MCC involvement in the IPL is something I believe is worthy of thorough investigation, and something that we’ll take to our committee for their deliberation” – Keith Bradshaw, MCC chief executive.
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