What goes around, comes around

Anand Vasu writes in Hindustan Times, that Lalit Modi's ouster is a classic case of getting a taste of one's own medicine.

Once in the BCCI, Modi led the witch-hunt against Jagmohan Dalmiya, and having had him suspended, champi- oned the need to press crimi- nal charges and have the police go after the former ICC chief. Why, Modi famously threatened to “lock up Dalmiya and throw away the keys". Such bravado would have been empty had it not had the backing of a heavy-weight like Sharad Pawar. A seasoned politician and no stranger to fingers being pointed, perhaps Pawar might have cautioned Modi that what goes around comes around, but either he never did, or it fell on deaf ears.

Suhel Seth writes in the Economic Times that while it is easy to brand Modi as the fall guy, the blame for the IPL fiasco rests with everyone associated with the brand.

Respectable brands, be it Hero Honda or Citibank, were part of the IPL. They have been supporting the IPL since its inception. Who, if anyone at all, is going to be accountable to them and the monies they’ve invested in building this property? While a lot of us may say that the IPL in its present avatar was Lalit Modi’s brainchild, the truth of the matter is everyone else other than Lalit Modi nourished the baby. It was powered by the belief and the monies of a Hero Honda or for that matter a Citibank. It came to fruition because a Mukesh Ambani or a Vijay Mallya believed in the brand proposition and its eventual worth.

Simon Hughes writes in Telegraph that irrespective of the ontroversies, the IPL was a tremendous success on-field.

The melodrama of the matches, fortunes lurching one way then the other, has often mirrored the plot of a Bollywood movie. That is the IPL's winning formula – every match has the real sense of an event – and there is nothing else in the sub-continent to compete with it. It delivers what the burgeoning Indian middle-class crave – western-style entertainment. For that simple reason the IPL will continue to thrive, in spite of all the off-field machinations.