NEW DELHI: "It has become a monster." The Indian Premier League (IPL) was only into its third edition when former England captain Nasser Hussain made that statement in 2010. In the form of the shareholding pattern of the erstwhile Kochi franchise, the league had its share of the first of many controversies that followed. But the magnitude of money involved in the league, which kept getting bigger with every year, became the wind beneath IPL's wings. And it eventually mastered the physics of sailing.
But is that a good thing, or not so much? For a definitive answer to that one needs to touch on a lot of aspects.
