How was IPL born....

It was 2007 world cup in the Caribbeans. The cricketing world was happy to see the tournament of such a big level in the islands which once produced the finest people of the trade....
Indian team with no injuries and were in great form going into the world cup... many greats predict this time India will win the Cup, unlike last time loosing it to Australia in the finals...
but what happened is something like a nightmare, India was kicked out of the tournament, being grouped with SriLanka ,Bermuda and the underdogs Bangladesh who thumped India out of the tournament, the Indian cricket team was pathetic & the fans back home enraged.. It once looked BCCI is going to loose it's control on Indian cricket....
Thus was the Indian Cricket League(ICL) was born , this new cricket board is backed by Zee television network & has big money invested in it. Many of the big names were contacted to be a part of the new institution.. Kapil Dev the worlds best all rounder was also roped in.. This in particular was coming good for cricketers who never made enough money before.. many people who never got a chance to make it big enough for the people to see them play.. were elated many good cricketers who felt BCCI did injustice to their career were there in the league, the likes of Dinesh mongia who even played for India ... not just that it had many retired international players... ICL soon became popular & BCCI couldn't tolerate the enemy just under it's jaw..
so it decided to suppress it. Some one associated with them can never be associated with BCCI,
for that matter not just BCCI also with ICC for international cricketers.
ICL was termed as the rebel league and the ICC never recognized it....
But for cricket fans these never mattered, people accepted ICL , they went to stadiums and watched the matches, BCCI before it could loose it's ground to this exciting T20 format had to counter it.
Thus the IPL was born.... BCCI had made it unbelievably big the response was a surprise to them too, especially the IPL was born at the right time when Business men in India were looking forward to invest money on sports, they too could never miss the opportunity .. thus was the $600 million IPL was born.... cricketers got so much money , the players performing in the 1-class leagues got opportunity to rub shoulders with the cricket greats , play in front of crowds.. and earn money they deserved.
So to sum this all up.. it's very very funny to realize the fact that.. .. these cricketers got so much money because they let india down at the world-cup.... chalo let's forgive them as this has come lot good for the total breed of unrecognized bunch of local players. The mantra in IPL has been a search for talent and many revelations have also been witnessed..
Now what keeps me amused is how are people going to look at ICL after such a huge success of IPL.. yes IPL was a huge success and mind you this is the first season only...