No questions asked, no answers given

This is a time when we, in the media, need to pose some serious questions — both to the game’s administrators and, as an extension, to ourselves for leaving no stone unturned in hyping the IPL as a coming of age of world cricket when, in fact, it is no more than a coming together of existing business tycoons with those who fancy themselves as the tycoons of tomorrow, writes Kunal Pradhan in the Indian Express.

As a result, the organisers — who have a host of monetary problems to tackle in the middle of a global slowdown — have at least been saved the trouble of worrying about media management. The only time anybody was on the back foot in this tournament was when the Fake IPL Player rattled the Kolkata administration with a witty, fictional account of the inner rumblings of a confused IPL team. In a country that likes to boast about a strong, vibrant, free press, that’s not something for us to take pride in.