Here We Are Nowhere
GH watches privatisation hits the buffers
Last week, there was an amusing skirmish on X involving an article written by former IMG India boss Balu Nayar about the inception of the Indian Premier League, which he prefaced by looking back to its unruly early days in 2008.
The ebullient Lalit Modi, whose handle on X still styles him as ‘founder and architect - Indian Premier League’, wasn’t standing for any diffusion of his eminence.
From the patrician Nayar, a veteran also of Yahoo and STAR TV, this provoked a deliciously feline retort.
Success has a thousand fathers, eh? So what about failure? It is, proverbially, an orphan. But in the apparent thwarting of Cricket Australia’s thrust to privatise the Big Bash League, it has at least a few relations.
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