The corporate face of IPL was supposed to come in real and it came with a bang. First it was resignation of Charu Sharma, CEO of Royal Challengers and now Dr. Vijay Mallya showing his frustration at team’s performance and captain Rahul Dravid. Dr. Mallya has clearly said no one can deny the corporate face of IPL and that distinguishes IPL from other tournaments.

Mallya told a news channel, “I had my own list (of players) but the fact is Rahul Dravid and Charu Sharma had their own list and at the end of the day, I decided to take the back seat,”.
“I was very tempted to bid for players whom I wanted but they held me back. Obviously things have turned out differently”.
He added “At the end of the day, people need to understand that the IPL has a corporate side to it, and a very definitive corporate side. It is not at all cricket in the traditional sense,”.

Well its not only Dr. Mallya who may be disappointed with their team other franchise owners like Deccan Chargers may also be disappointed as their team is also not performing according to their standards.

This kind of corporate involvement is creating a big pressure on the players to perform. Earlier if a player wasn’t performing the team management was not putting that kind of pressure by assuming as a bad period for the player but in IPL the pressure is mounting everyday its just due to lots of investment made by the owners.

Players like Rahul Dravid who had handled every kind of pressure on the field are not able to tackle this one.
So according to all account we can say that this corporate face is going to be ugly and ugly as the tournament will progress.