The world around us can be interpreted as a series of controversies. Look at the newspaper headlines. Everyday the paper is trying to beat up something as today’s “big story”. The IPL, of course, has had its own share of controversies, but there is something very interesting about the IPL controversies. They seem to last much shorter compared to the general controversies.
Lets review last weeks’ IPL controversies: Bajji slapping, The Ganguly-Warne “spirit-of-cricket” face-off, the Cheerleader controversy, Shoiab’s IPL refusal despite the PCB giving it an OK. Just to name a few. In each of these cases, the controversy comes, newspapers and blogs pick it up, tom-tom it for a while, and then 2 days later, everyone just moves on to the next one.
I wonder why the average IPL controversy is so short-lived? Political and Bollywood-originated controversies last much longer. Think about the HAL-BIAL controversy in Bangalore, the SRK vs Amitabh controversy etc… have lasted for months!
I think one reason is that there are so many controversies originating from the IPL that the blogosphere keeps jumping from one to the next. Its like a small child in a candy shop! The kid doesn’t know what it wants, and wants to try ALL the sweets in the shop.
The Twenty20 cricket revolution has brought in the age of fast-paced action, and the cricket pitch is not the only place where all the action is. Its all slam-bang-thank-you-very-much style of thinking everywhere now. I can’t figure out if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. But it sure is very entertaining!
