Fake ticket controversy

There is another IPL controversy in which news paper claimed that due to final some fake tickets were given to audience.

CSA said in a statement that its investigation followed a newspaper article on Monday which quoted the stadium's CEO, Alan Khourie, as stating that the stadium had been dangerously overcrowded for the IPL final because of the use of fake tickets.

The investigation findings were released Wednesday by CSA CEO, Gerald Majola, who said the ticketing and access control systems at the final were provided by national ticket outlet Computicket and CSA to the stadium respectively.

Majola said: "In 2003, CSA implemented an access control system at all major cricket venues through South Africa. This system has been upgraded since then, and we are very proud to say that we are the only sporting body in South Africa with such a comprehensive and effective access control system."

"Computicket managed to recover the so-called 'fraudulent' tickets, to which the article referred, from the Liberty Life Wanderers Cricket Stadium - totalling 327 tickets. On checking these tickets it was discovered that 177 tickets were stolen from Computicket, 66 tickets were stolen from those allocated to the stadium and 144 were actually tickets for the semi-final."

Majola said the official attendance at the stadium for the DLF IPL final was 25,418 as recorded by the access control system: "If the stadium did in fact have more spectators than this, these patrons would have had to access the stadium via entrances not controlled by the access control system.

"CSA's investigation shows that if there was overcrowding, it could not have been caused by the use of fraudulent tickets. Illegal access could only have been gained through entrances outside of the access control system and these entrances fall under the control and jurisdiction of the stadium management."

The stadium is managed by the Gauteng Cricket Board, of which Khourie is the head.

IPL 2 brought sweets for all....

This Season’s IPL brought in A lot of money for every team, even Kolkata Knight Riders, which stood last in the series, got Rs40 Lakh as their prize money, and in teams o profit, it stood at third place by grabbing Rs25.8 crore in this edition of IPL.

According to a report by equity research firm IIFL, Team Jaipur will make the highest profit of Rs 35.1 crore in the group matches of the second edition of the tournament. Jaipur had also made the second-highest profit of Rs 14.50 crore in 2008, including the Rs 4.50 crore ($1 million) prize money.

For those who didn’t get past the league stage, the sums are correspondingly smaller – Rs 80 lakh for the team that finished fifth (Kings XI Punjab), Rs 70 lakh for the sixth placed (Jaipur), Rs 50 lakh for the seventh (Mumbai Indians) and Rs 40 lakh for the lowest one.

These figures tell clearly that there is no loss in turns of money. Money in IPL made everybody happy this year..IPL business gave better result this time.