KOLKATA: An IPL season of allegedly rampant malpractices drew to an insipid close on Sunday night as Mumbai Indians destroyed Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs at the Eden Gardens to win their maiden domestic Twenty20 title.

The final match of a season that saw arrests of players and team personnel in connection with spot-fixing and that brought BCCI’s autocratic honcho N. Srinivasan to the brink of elimination from the powerful body – was almost anti-climactic.

Sachin’s last IPL?
But as Mumbai players streamed on to the field in celebration, Sachin Tendulkar let slip a shocker to Harsha Bhogle in conversation that this might have been his last IPL season.
“I had to wait 21 long years for the World Cup and six years for the IPL. It has been an enjoyable journey and it’s never too late. But I’m forty and this is the right time to stop playing IPL,” he said.
Tendulkar did not play the final and the last few games this season on account of having suffered a tendon injury to the left hand. (Yahoo Cricket)