When Indian Premier League(IPL) was established with Lalit Modi as its first chairman in 2008 with twenty20 format there were thoughts in every mind regarding how glamorous and controversial will it be. But with its ongoing sixth season it has been clearly evident that IPL is a package of cricket, entertainment and scandals. On one side it has brought recognition to regional players and fame to cricketers and team owners, on the other side it has also created problems for those who got involved in the scandals.
Lalit Modi, chairman of IPL, in 2010 claimed that the stake in Rendezvous Sports World which Shashi Tharoor the then cabinet minister, had gifted to Sunanda Pushkar , the co-owner of Kochi franchise, was a proxy for Tharoor. The war between them led to Shashi Tharoor from resigning from his post and Lalit Modi was removed from all his posts in Indian Cricket and was suspended from BCCI.
In 2011, Gabriella Pasqualotto was a South African cheerleader under Mumbai Indians reportedly written about the "flirtatious" and "inappropriate" behaviour by the cricketers. She was fired for blogging sceretly after the post match parties. In 2012, five IPL players were suspended after being allegedly caught involved in spot-fixing in camera in a sting operation carried out by a tv channel. The players belonged to Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Charges and Pune Warriors Indian. This was the first time IPL came under the scandal of spot-fixing.
In the same year, superstar Shahrukh Khan when he was drunked created controversy by fighting with the security guards and abusing then at Wankhede stadium after they asked him for immediate removal of his kids and their friends . He was banned from Wankhede Stadium for 5 years.
The recent spot-fixing scandal involving S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan, the players of Rajasthan Royals is on the lips and the minds of all the people. The spot-fixing controversy spread like a fire and triggered a huge controversy in the middle of IPL's season 6. The three players were arrested along with 12 bookies by Delhi police on May 16 for spot-fixing where they were getting payments of more than 60 lakhs for pre-determined runs in an over. Also the signals cricketers used after they had completed their work came out in the public.
Three more people Sunil Bhatia, Kiran Dole and Manish Gudewa were arrested who were "fixers", the ones who mediated between the bookies and the players. Rajasthan Royals filed a police complaint against these three players for spot-fixing. Now with so many controversies of IPL, its hard to imagine it without anymore controversies in future. IPL will go on and the scandals and tamashas will continue to entertain the fans of the glamorous Indian Premiere League.
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