The IPL, with instant millionaires and lashings of Bollywood stardust, begins its second season on Saturday, thousands of kilometres from home and with controversy raging in its slipstream.
Fans and critics would expect nothing else from this revolutionary form of Twenty20 cricket; it's either wake-up call or death knock.
With security unable to be guaranteed in India for a sport which is now a frontline terror target, organisers were forced to shift the five-week, eight-team, 59-match tournament to South Africa.
For Eden Gardens and Wankhede, now read Wanderers and Centurion.
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*By Syed Khalid Mahmood*
*(Pakistan News & Features Services)*
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