First appeared like the different camps inside BCCI were shooting at each other from the shoulders of the Delhi Police and Mumbai Police respectively.

With the arrest of Meyappan, the son-in-law of the BCCI Chief N Srinivasan, and subsequent clamor for the latter to resign from his post, we thought that the Mumabi camp had won the shoot out. To pressurize the Chief into resigning a few of the top Board officials even stepped down. There were also a few media houses which took sides and thundered "this-nation-wants-an-answer" as usual.

We do not know where from the Board Chief got the guts to place himself on par with Sonia Gandhi/Robert Vadra family and not resign when issues of propriety and corruption in high places were at stake.

But NS seems to have had the last laugh, when he put Mr. Dalmiya, the Bette Noire of Mr. Sharad Pawar, to take charge, and thus prevented the Mumbai camp from sitting on the saddle. The latter may not get the keys to the coffers which would have been handy in 2014.

This IPL is a carnival more than cricket and is a tourism business. Everybody is involved in this rape of cricket right from its first edition to the 6th. How come suddenly some of them suddenly became saints, God only knows?

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