IPL 2013: Controversies have damaged what has otherwise been a good sixth edition The trouble with a tournament as long as the Indian Premier League (IPL) which has two games almost every day is that unless those games are punctuated by performances like David Miller’s whirlwind century against Bangalore, or Chris Gayle’s fearsome assault on Pune, or Kieron Pollard’s blinder against Hyderabad, even the most hardened fan would be hard-pressed to recall the results of matches that happened less than a week ago. Even by those low standards of recall, and notwithstanding the performances mentioned above, this has been a forgettable IPL, owing almost entirely to off-field controversies, and some on-field ones.

Spot-fixing: Anil Kumble's advice of erasing the records of Sreesanth and the other tainted ones does not make sense All traces of the post-1998 Lance Armstrong and his bike were erased by the International Cycling Union after the legend confessed to taking performance enhancing drugs. Arunabha Sengupta says that even though Anil Kumble has advised the same approach for spot-fixers, it hardly makes any sense in a team-game like cricket.

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Jacques Kallis, born on October 16, 1975, in Cape Town, is a South African cricketer and plays for the team as an all rounder. Other than South Africa, Kallis has represented Middlesex, Glamorgan, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata KnightRiders in various cricket tournaments.