IPL

IPL has been the flavour of the week. Every channel, newspaper is following the story with a breaking news headline! It seems as though the entire country and had only one question - What will happen to the IPL? Now that we know that IPL will be held in South Africa, I have a few observations to make on IPL -

1. IPL is a business model which can both entertain & give huge returns
2. National elections to elect a new government is a bigger priority than a business
3. It is not a team playing for the country, but various Indian teams (with non Indian players too) competing for awards /money
   
4. Lets not fool ourselves that this is about pride and cricket. Its all about money. If there was no money to be earned would players, team owners and most imporatntly BCCI be so interested?
5. Do Indian citizens know that BCCI claims to be a charitable body and therefore reaps huge tax benefits?
   
6. Amongst all these discussions, I would like to know if even one player stood up to ask a question that many Indians are asking today, " How will we vote"? Did this question even come to their minds? I don't know if there's a way they can vote from South Africa. I don't know the legalities. But do you think BCCI or any player thought of this?