Gratitude makes a man ramble. And none can grudge the beleaguered and flamboyant founder architect of the IPL Lalit Modi his moment of glory. “It’s been a long roller coaster ride since I landed in London four years, two months 18 days and 7.45 hours ago,” he wrote recently, “Lots of down hills, a few up hills. But what a ride it was.”

And then he got specific. “A few assassins, lots of thugs, blackmailers, kidnappers, extortionists, backstabbers, corrupt officials and politicians like Lungi Wala and Tharoors of the world tried there (sic) best when the ride was on its downward spiral,” he said about some of the people he’d famously crossed swords with.