I wanted to saty away from cricket and IPL, but i guess one can hate it, love but can't ignore it. Though this format of the game has nothing for the poor old bowlers, it does bowl the maidens over. Multi crore pack packets, glamour of bollyd thrown in , foreign players to boast about and a blitzkrieg of advertising both on print as well as Television has guaranteed that this tournament would be discussed in the drawing rooms as well as the boardrooms.
I don't personally have a fair knowledge about what it would be creating for Indian sport in general but I guess it is loosly based on the way NBA is promoted in US. And the players who get millions playing for their clubs hardly bother to don the colour of their country.. There have already been few retirements from international cricket which has probably resulted due to this fast track dose of cricket ( Including ICL).
IPL or ICL what ever you may call it, but it is not the cricket i knew of . No hard feelings though , I couldn't atleast imagine to see harbhajan hitting out on a fellow indian player in any other format. Maybe just maybe , This might bring up the scum that was lying deep down in the Indian/foreign dressing rooms.