Here’s wishing the Indian Premier League (IPL) a very happy and safe 14th birthday. The party begins today. Starting 7.30 pm, fans will once again let their hair down and dance to a tune that appeals to one and all. It’s been a ritual since 2008, when India’s single-biggest export to the world was born out of a consummation between the game’s powerful patrons and the country’s corporate echelons.
But how will this year’s party end? Mid-way, owing to a relentless pandemic, or on May 30, as scheduled? That’s a question to which answers will be sought every single day over the next 51 days. Until then, let the music play.
This year, the apple of cricket’s eye will come of age in ways one had only half-dreamt all those years ago. Like any parent wishing their baby well, the T20 league’s stakeholders had envisioned a time when the property would outshine everything else in the sport’s global ecosystem. That pipe ream is coming true.
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