Posts Tagged ‘Lalit Modi’

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.

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.

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.

3 Mar 2010: Quote of the day: 3/03/2010

“Lalit Modi works an 80-hour week or summat like that. He’s never even managed to watch a whole IPL game – only fragments. This is his world. He doesn’t realise that most of the rest of us are lucky if we put in eight hours of actual work in an entire working week. A Test match, played during the daytime, is the best way of avoiding work that there is. That is the modern world, Lalit; a world that revolves around the internet and finding ways to slack off” – King Cricket sets Lalit Modi right, on this and a few other things.

12 Feb 2010: Quote of the day: 12/02/2010

“The Champions League is not for international players. It is for the county lads to earn a few quid and get a massive buzz from playing in big grounds in front of decent crowds, something they never experience at home. It means a little bit more employment for some guys who face winters that are long and hard and full of nothing but netting from October to March” – The Champions League: Michael Vaughan thinks we should be in.

25 Jan 2010: Quote of the day: 25/01/2010

“Yes, an American is more theoretically likely to watch a three-hour hit’n'giggle than a Test match, but only in the same way that I am more likely to win the lottery than a Nobel Prize for physics” – Alan Tyres does not believe that Lalit Modi has backed a winner this time.

21 Jan 2010: Quote of the day: 21/01/2010

“The internet has changed the lives of everyone and this will do the same for sport – we are now taking our event truly global for the first time. Google gives us access to 500 million pairs of eyes every single moment of the day. We do not have a live feed in the UK [at the moment], people in the UK keep asking me why they can’t see it. Now, if they have a broadband connection, they can get it for free” – IPL supremo Lalit Modi on the link-up between his series and Google-owned YouTube.

13 Jul 2008: Stop press 13/07/08: Unnamed IPL player fails drugs test

“As of now we are at the first stage where one sample has tested positive. The issue is now with the IPL’s medical committee. “The identity of the player will matter only after we check on the pre-declared drugs” – IPL commissioner Lalit Modi.

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