IPL - What They Say

"The IPL has taken the game to virtually every house in the world."
- Sachin Tendulkar

"What? Six weeks' razzle-dazzle enough to consign over a hundred years of Test cricket to the dump? You must be off your rocker."
- David Gower

"The suggestion that the Indian Premier League is a runaway success has been completely manufactured. Even at this early stage, when the paint is still drying on the grounds, they are already giving away stacks of tickets."
- Geoffrey Boycott

"This is not cricket. This is the greatest divide between the rich and the poor. With that kind of money, you could have built another cement factory."
- Jaswant Singh

"Violence between players? Scantily clad cheerleaders? Toss in a rant by Charles Barkley and three minutes of commercials for every 45 seconds of actual game time and cricket may finally be ready for a mainstream American audience."
- The Los Angeles Times warms to the idea of Twenty20 cricket after hearing about the IPL

"All the organisers are doing by making scantily-clad white women dance in front of huge crowds is to stoke the base voyeuristic and sexual insecurities of the Indian male. It is revolting, appalling and shows the game in very poor light."
- Ramachandra Guha, Cricket historian

"I do not wish Twenty20 well, though I welcome new funds for cricket and cricketers. I think Twenty20 is a decadent, dumbed-down, third-rate formula for sub-prime cricket."
- William Rees-Mogg, Former Times editor

"It's really unusual to come to Bombay, hit a four and see nobody clapping for you."
- Rahul Dravid

Five full days of cricket with batsman stroking balls along the ground and bowlers uprooting stumps after toiling for long hours in white kits is better any day.

- Keshav, jobless blogger :P

All quotes, except the last one taken from cricinfo.