David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…Again, the stories you hear are so divergent that it’s impossible to know. There’s no reconciling, there’s no truth that is converged upon. You know? As we started off the episode with, he’s a colorful character. I think what really happened here and the major point is, hey, everything was working great as long as the music was playing. Lalit never lost money for any of his partners. Then that happened and then the knives came out. It’s interesting, quite interesting, all these very serious allegations that get brought up against Modi, and then ultimately the BCCI decides that he did do them and bans him for life in 2013, because the chairperson of the BCCI at this point in time and Lalit’s great rival who’s one of the forces behind ousting him is N Srinivasan, the owner of the Chennai Super Kings via his family’s business, India Cements. Well, that very same season in 2013, the Indian police run a sting operation and bust members of two teams in the IPL, the Rajasthan Royals and the Chennai Super Kings owned by N Srinivasan for spot fixing matches. That’ll kill a league quickly if you don’t get that in shek.…

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