David Rosenthal: belief

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…Right. What’s the real harm? It doesn’t affect the outcome of the game. Exactly. Arguably, but massive trust destroying amongst the fan base. Horrible for the league. Especially horrible when it’s the BCCI chairperson’s team that is doing it. At first N Srinivasan denies everything, refuses to step down from the BCCI. This ultimately does become the best thing to happen to the IPL. I think if this hadn’t happened and there’d just been the forcing out of Modi, things might really have gone sideways here because they got so much worse. This forces the government of India to step in. So this Indian Supreme Court steps in, they basically take over the BCCI. They spend two years investigating and restructuring everything. Then in 2015, they announce all their verdicts. They force N Srinivasan to step down for the BCCI. They restructure the BCCI. They suspend the two teams that had been spot fixing the Royals and the Chennai Super Kings for two seasons. Those teams are replaced for two seasons by temporary franchises based in Pune and Rajkot. Then the court institutes a whole new clean slate set of reforms and governance. I’ve been referring a couple of times to Manoj Badale and the book he wrote, A New Innings, about his experience owning and running the Rajasthan Royals, the other team that was suspended for two seasons. Does he write about this in the book?…

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