Indian Premier League: The advent of cheerleaders over the last decade

It has been 10 years already since Lalit Modi's brain-child, the Indian Premier League , took the world of cricket by storm and has since left the Indian audience fighting internal struggles: which is more important,  country or city?  

Success at the inaugural World T20 brought along with Indian's fairy-tale love story, the concept of cheerleaders.  

What the well-meaning layman in this country of 1.2 billion people understood by that is completely different, 'scantily clad white women dancing to pulsating music'.

Numerous debates and verbal battles aside on the morality of it all and its linearity with Indian values, things have changed, a lot.

The Indian Premier League has moved on from treating these cheerleaders as just  props and showpieces to place at the boundary ropes to do what actually they are supposed to, cheer the action on the field, every four, six or wicket.