This is Why You Will Not Boycott IPL

IPL is to Cricket what WWE is to Wrestling. It’s not a sport. It’s sports entertainment.

What is IPL really about? Cricket? Bollywood? Celebrity? Businessmen? Showmanship? Long sixes? Drugs? Parties? Match Fixing?

None of those. IPL is only about one thing; MONEY.

Money is the reason why everyone wants to own a team. Not because everyone is eager to spend their “hard-earned” money but because they are eager to make even more money.

I’ve never understood who gets the money when teams bid for players. Do the players get the money? Do the previous owners get the money? Or does BCCI get the money? What about international players? I’ve no idea.

All I know is that big money exchanges hands before IPL. Do you think these shrewd businessmen would spend so much money if there was even the slightest chance that they’d not make all of it back at least 10 folds?

BCCI definitely makes money. The team owners also definitely make money. The players also most definitely make money. The TV channels also make money. So who loses money? Because for someone to make money others have to lose it right?

Advertisers pay TV channels but they too earn that investment back in product sales. Basically only us, the consumers lose money. Actually it won’t be fair to say that we lose money. We spend our money. We pay our money to the different rich people involved in IPL for providing us with that ultimate product; ENTERTAINMENT.

So we don’t care if the matches are fixed. More names are coming out slowly in the spot fixing scandal. The news channels are trying to entice us by saying that out of the 4 players at least 1 is a big star. But we don’t want to know. We don’t care.

I think all of IPL is fixed. Every ball of every match is choreographed. The same way that Undertaker’s choke-slam is choreographed. But who cares! Not me. I’m entertained and that’s all that matters to me.

In a perfect world, the audience would be so disgusted by this ugly disfigured mutation of cricket served to us wrapped in glittery paper, that they would boycott IPL from the next season just to send the message across that we don’t want to see fixed matches. We don’t want to see the dignity of sportsmanship put on sale for the highest bidder. We don’t want the extremely rich to get their gambling highs by manipulating our emotions.

But. However. Still. Yet. Nevertheless. Nonetheless.

This is not a perfect world. And we don’t care. Whoever are the unlucky players to have been caught doing what probably everyone else is also doing, we don’t want to know. What’s the worst that will happen? They’ll be banned from cricket? Maybe we’ll see them in Jhalak Dikhla Ja or commenting on some sports channel in a few years. It doesn’t make a difference to us. It’s not like match fixing will stop. We know it won’t stop. We have made our peace with it. Let it remain.

We don’t care and we won’t boycott IPL. We won’t even trend #boycottIPL on Twitter. We won’t stop you from making MONEY off of our emotions as long as you don’t stop ENTERTAINING us. Deal?