As tax raids and honey traps threaten to take the cricket out of IPL, we go back to where it all began: A fight between two powerful men.

Our columnist Krish Ashok pits MP Shashi Tharoor against IPL boss Lalit Modi to see who comes up trumps.

Krish Ashok, IT consultant and humourist, blogs at http://krishashok.wordpress.com

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