In the flush of its success, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was hailed as the face of the new, thrusting, ambitious India and its swelling status. "It is a global representation of India," claimed the former IPL "commissioner" Lalit Modi, "and what the modern-day India stands for and its successes." Promoting the IPL was promoting India and what some would like to see as the Indian economic "miracle". The virtues of the IPL were presented as the virtues of neoliberal India: the embodiment of the free market and the creative capacities of an unleashed private sector.

THE late-night parties, fashion shows and cheerleaders that marked the Indian Premier League as the enfant terrible of the stodgy cricketing world are to go the same way as its suspended former chief.

Vadodara: The Indian Premier League’s (IPL) interim chief Chirayu Amin on Tuesday said efforts are on to clean up the scandal-hit sports event and promised a “bigger, better and transparent” IPL next year. “The job has just started and I am getting involved in it,” Amin said in his first press conference after being appointed the IPL boss in Monday’s Governing Council meeting.