Indian Premier League- Has cricket lost its essence?
Last Updated: Feb 19, 2025
Indian Premier League- Has cricket lost its essence?
Indians and citizens of neighboring countries treat cricket as a religion, elevating it beyond a mere sport. A huge fraction of the country’s population fervently follows every cricket match, vigorously supporting this notion. Everyone acknowledges how the streets of India transform into mini cricket pitches, nurturing budding cricketers and catering to die-hard cricket enthusiasts. The obsession goes to the extreme level when the masses associate their emotions with the outcome of every match, which has often turned ugly in many cases.
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Dark Side Of IPL: When Cricket Becomes Business
BCCI, the world’s richest cricket board, capitalized on cricket’s massive popularity by launching the Indian Premier League. The IPL aggressively dominated the TRP market, achieving unprecedented success that far exceeded initial expectations. Regionalism of Cricket teams & Cricket Stars, stirred the love for cricket in those brains also, which had been dormant for the sport. The monetary outcome was larger than what it had been for the international matches. Bollywood stirred in, adding more glamour to the tournament & somewhere IPL got reduced to – BUSINESS!
Has the Indian Premier League Compromised the Spirit of Cricket?
IPL stands far from the true spirit of a sport. Players of a national team, fighting against each other; often indulge in nasty brawls which definitely hampers the harmony, between them. It has been a debatable topic, however, many would stand by it that many players who otherwise are not very good performers in international cricket, perform outstandingly in IPL. This has birth to a common notion that IPL has made Indian cricketers, money-minded!
The second thing is that it is a very long tournament, duration exceeding a month. The necessary rest for players gets plundered & the after-effects are seen in the international matches. After match parties, cheerleaders, etc.; I attempt to pull more crowd the IPL creative heads have made a clown of the players.
In recent days, the IPL has notoriously transformed into the “Indian Paisa League”, with organized betting rackets flourishing. Consequently, several match-fixing and spot-fixing scandals have surfaced, leading to high-profile arrests. Notably, Delhi Police apprehended players like Sreesanth, while Mumbai Police also made several arrests in connection with these cases, and match-fixing reports have reached to house of team owners and BCCI supremo. So we will have to wait and watch how the IPL is affecting Indian cricket more & more.
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India is a place where people like and love Cricket more than the national game which is hockey, and the current scenario has changed it all, where cricket has become the place to earn money rather than playing with a team effort,BCCI(the richest cricket board in the world) launched Indian Premier League which turned the essence of cricket from 50-50 to 20-20, but with a lot of fixing scams, betting…. this post provides a brighter idea of the above…. In my opinion Cricket is the game of gentle man and it always has spirit in it but due to some the spirit of a sportsman is disturbed but rather of all it has all its essence with in. Just ask yourself whether you like cricket or not… but you will ask always about when INDIA and PAKISTAN are going to clash, or the score or you stick to the TV for the last over and the JOY of winning the match against PAKISTAN, and that spirit is the essence which is in every Indian.
Cricket is just like a religion in India and even the players are treated as god to all of us. But the excess commercial expand of it, reduces the craze of cricket. At a time people those who were working in a critical situation, never forgot to carry the news of any cricket match. But at the recent times, the scenario is totally changed. BCCI and ICC must need to think about these facts. After all this is our own religion.