IPL Controversies

Indian Premier League has been smeared by controversies be it on the field or off the field. While criketers continue taking potshots on rival players in press conferences and on the field, the players not only took resort to war of words but also got into many a scuffle physically too. Temper soared high as the race between the willow and cherry heated up and turned ugly, with both young guns and old horses taking on each other unwilling even to give an inch away. While Harbhajan's faced 11 IPL match ban and 5 oDI ban for slapping fellow team mate Sreesanth, Ganguly-Warne got into a tussle over the former's appeal to the TV umpire over a catch during the Kolkata Knigh Riders and Rajasthan Royal's match. Not lagging behindis Sehwag aka Viru who faced the ire of Gilly over the former's frequent fielding of substitutes. When the players were getting ugly in the field, the franchises decided to make it uglier and take it to another degree. So so have Mallya sacking Bangalore Royal Challengers CEO Charu Sharma and replacing him with Brijesh Patel. And if that was not enough we had both charu and Mallya openly getting involved into a series of mudslinging. And now we have another controversy hitting the big screen. This time it is the lesser known pacer Praveen Kumar, who rose to glory after his successful stint in the IPL. The 21-year-old lad bashed up a doctor in Meerut for allegedly splashing mud water on him and his friend. For this pautry reason, the bowler along with his friends not only beat up the doctor then at the moment but also followed him to a shop and went on a rampage. Well, some may argue that these incidents shows that the players and the owners are really serious about the game considering that the players have nothing to gain apart from some lucrative moolah, others say it just means that we have lost not only the essence of the game but also have brought the game to disrepute. But who cares?