Richly deserved?

The sport is big money in India, but this piece in the Economic Times believes it’s not quite cricket to prise such sums for new IPL franchises in a country where others sports house themselves in cowsheds and crumbling infrastructure.

Is some enterprising soul going to now try and convince us that some sort of trickle-down effect from the rich coffers of the IPL/BCCI is going to better things all around? Or are these vast sums more a reflection of what the bosses of the IPL think their scheme deserves?