The Picture says it all

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That emotion can never be manufactured. At least the first couple of
weeks has been pretty successful for IPL.

However, BCCI could have done a few things

* Reduce the number of matches in the first season by half
* Offer downside protection for franchise owners by sharing the
downside financial risk (This would have increased the bid amounts and
BCCI could have also extracted higher upside potential)
* Prepare different kinds of pitches (If you have to play on a
turning, seaming, bouncing and batting pitches, you could almost
simulate test match situations)
* Offer one time amnesty for ICL players. This would definitely make
the likes of Lara, Klusener and Bond to switch to IPL thus crushing
ICL completely

"tendulkar.com" <tendulkar.com@gmail.com> wrote in news:7a2b25db-0172-4f64-
[email]b847-cbb93f524455@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com[/email]:

> [url]http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/current/story/347712.html[/url]
>
> That emotion can never be manufactured. At least the first couple of
> weeks has been pretty successful for IPL.
>
> However, BCCI could have done a few things
>
> * Reduce the number of matches in the first season by half
> * Offer downside protection for franchise owners by sharing the
> downside financial risk (This would have increased the bid amounts and
> BCCI could have also extracted higher upside potential)
> * Prepare different kinds of pitches (If you have to play on a
> turning, seaming, bouncing and batting pitches, you could almost
> simulate test match situations)
> * Offer one time amnesty for ICL players. This would definitely make
> the likes of Lara, Klusener and Bond to switch to IPL thus crushing
> ICL completely
>

It was NOT manufactured for the IPL but rather his country.
Look at the colors.