IPL Story, Part 2: From power to ruin, the league that devoured its own
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IPL Story, Part 2: From power to ruin, the league that devoured its own

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First there was Lalit Modi. The IPL, like the mysterious host in Agatha Christie's novel first published as Ten Little Niggers, invited many to its party, only to destroy them one by one. Citing security concerns in the election season, the home minister asked Modi to delay the start of the IPL season by a few weeks. In a series of tweets, Modi first revealed that the promoters of the new franchise-Kochi Tuskers Kerala- had given free equity to a Dubai-based woman called Sunanda Pushkar. So, when his political patron, Maratha leader and Union minister Sharad Pawar turned his back on Modi, the IPL czar had nowhere to run except to Europe, from where he never returned..

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