The global godman cometh

In its two, brief, fun-filled years of existence, the IPL has been an entertainment spectacle, a commercial bonanza, a television reality show, Party Central and also, (leastly and lastly?) an earth-moving cricket event. On Friday night, it was taken to the next level. It actually levitated to another plane of consciousness, writes Sharda Ugra on India Today.

At the match presentation after Kings XI Punjab and the Delhi Daredevils game, in the middle of the suits, jeans and polyester T-shirts, stood the yellow-robed, long-haired His Holiness Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Alongside him, in front of the perspex sponsors board, were His Luminous Loudness Ravi Shastri, Her Perpetual Perkiness Preity Zinta, His Loopy Loquaciousness Niranjan Shah and His Humble Anonymousness (gentleman in King’s XI gear). To hear LL Shastri utter the words “His Holiness” was like listening to the Pope holler, “Yo, who de maan, maan?” but LL did ensure that HH could smoothly hand over cardboard cheque and acrylic trophy that was the Maximum Sixes Award to Irfan Pathan.