For those who favor negativity, IPL has enough of that too. Alleged lack of transparency in financial matters. Alleged excess transparency in cheerleader attire. An Indian international (Harbhajan Singh again) slaps another Indian international player (the intensely volatile Sreesanth) in IPL 1 and gets banned for the season. The echo of that slap resonates in season 6, as the one who was slapped has a meltdown on Twitter. A poison-pen blog under the pseudonym “Fake IPL Player”, comes up during IPL 2, goes viral, and creates much drama and mistrust before the blogger outs himself. During IPL 2, post 26/11 franchises with tensions running high, franchises “are told” not to select Pakistani players at the auction leading to much heartburn among some owners. In IPL 6, Sri Lankan players are banned from playing in Chennai in order to honor “local sentiment”. Shahrukh Khan, the king of Mumbai and Bollywood’s biggest star, is declared persona non grata at the Mumbai stadium because of an altercation with the ground staff.

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Source: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess - NYTimes.com