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The Indian tycoon who changed cricket

The Indian tycoon who changed cricket

     Lalit Modi, the Indian Tycoon who has masterminded Indian Premier League and for that he got the best mixture of team owners and players. He got the combinations of Bollywood stars corporate moguls and million- dollars cricketers.

     Lalit Modi has made Board of control for cricket in India on of richest sporting organization in the world, with the annual revenue of more that a billion dollar, that too in just three years. And now Modi is going to launched an official sanctioned Indian Premier League, a tournament so rich that international cricket may never be the same as it.

     Hype of the tournament which was there before starting the tournament was like a dream for the promoters. Some of the biggest names in bollywood bought teams in a league the six cricketers fetched more than a million dollar to play in the tournament at a player auction.

     ModI is having a very good background with Modi enterprises which is owned by his family. It was having interest in agro – Chemicals, tobacco, tea and beverages education, marketing and entertainment too. But beyond all this Modi has chosen cricket administration. Why ?

     In reply to the why Modi says “cricket is what drives this country. It cuts across age groups and every facet of our lives here in India. “Further he adds “ promoting cricket in India is good cause that he finds it archiving.

     There is a hint of revenge in his motivation to get to the top of the Indian cricket establishment. He tried to launch an official sanctioned professional cricket league. But he says “we were burnt very badly by the powers that were.” It became an ambition of mine to go out and clean it up.” And now he has finally decided to join the Rajasthan cricket Association and Succeeded to conceal his true identily.

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