This refers to the news report " IPL is BCCI's answer to ICL "(DH, Sep 14). BCCI has suddenly woken up from its slumber & has come up with its own version of ICL.

The real impetus has come only from the recent starting of the rebel ICL. A look at the TV & Automobile industries in India, the pre & after the deluge of new channels & types of automobiles, we see real competition for survival.

This has per se forced them in carrying out tremendous improvement of quality & varieties. The real competition forces one to come out with the novel ideas & improvements for the sake of shear survival.

The same is also applicable with the ICL & IPL.The ones to benefit most are the cricketers & the game of cricket. Organizations of such kind should grow in all the fields of sports so that we see a bright future in India.

Mandikal S Ananda Rao
Bangalore