Now it's Lalu vs Pawar off the cricket pitch!

The battle of cricketing leagues is heating up by the day and the person who, on Thursday, took on BCCI President Sharad Pawar is none other than his rival and Bihar Cricket Association Cheif - Lalu Prasad Yadav.
He's come out openly against BCCI's plans to impose a ban on players joining the breakaway Indian Cricket League.
Now, there is this cricketing battle with a twist - instead of 22 men taking each other in a stadium, its our own political fraternity out to settle scores with each other.
The latest entrant to the battle field is Lalu Yadav, Railways Minister and the President of the Bihar Cricket Association, who is batting in favour of the breakaway cricket league ICL.
"The players who complain that they are not being selected, if they join the parallel cricket league what's wrong in that. It will help talent come up and India will get good players," said Lalu Yadav.
In the last 48 hours, the BCCI chief Sharad Pawar himself has been forced to eat his words over his support to the ICL.
First, he tried to act cosy with Subhash Chandra's ICL.
"I dont want anyone to be penalised. It will be great if we all can work together," said Sharad Pawar day before the BCCI's working committee meeting in the capital.
But, only to be rebuffed by all his BCCI colleagues.
"If he (a player) choses to associate himself with any other organisation, he shall not be entitled to derive any benefits from the BCCI or be connected with any of its activities," announced Rajiv Shukla after the Working Committee meeting on Wednesday.
The congress general secretary Digvijay Singh too has recently written a letter to the BCCI Cheif making a case for the ICL but why all this controversy about a league which only is eyeing former superstars in order to bolster its own credentials.
In the end, is it simply about money?
Maybe, that is why Lalu Yadav is willing to offer the services of his railways stadiums to the ICL. Why should the BCCI be the only organisation reaping in the moolah from cricket.
And of course, sorting out Sharad Pawar also means one notch higher in the eyes of the ultimate super power - Sonia Gandhi.
Courtesy:IBNlive.com