cuutack bhubaneswar a day after successfully hosting a match of the indian premier league at barabati stadium cuttack the odisha cricket association oca on wednesday came up with some bad news for cricket aficionados scrapping the second edition of odisha premier league opl we decided to cancel the second edition of opl as none of the franchisee owners turned up to renew their contract said oca secretary asirbad behera the odisha version of the cashrich ipl was scheduled in may but the state cricket body said it cancelled it as not a single franchisee of opl1 turned up to renew its contract we fixed april 30 as the last date for renewal of opl franchisees on payment of the previous years bid price unfortunately not a single franchise deposited the promised amount added behera on the reason behind the franchisees backing out of the event behera said they did not earn any profit the ten franchisees of opl1 purchased the teams to promote cricket and provide an opportunity to budding players but vigilance and income tax officials unnecessarily harassed them hence they decided pull out of the tournament we regret that young cricketers of the state who had developed a keen competitive spirit by participating in opl1 will now be deprived of the same behera said adding in order to recompense their loss we are trying to find out means which will benefit them earlier three of the franchisees kashvi power rangers keonjhar puri emperors and berhampur bhanja veers withdrew from the tournament alleging harassment by vigilance sleuths during the first season of opl the franchisees had together invested over rs 20 crore in purchasing teams and procuring players the highest bid price by franchisee owners was rs 5499 lakh the huge inflow of cash into opl caught the attention of vigilance and it sleuths with allegations of illegal mines and real estate money playing their part doing the rounds vigilance and it departments subsequently raided some of the franchisee owners opl was not a profitmaking business for us we were investing in the tournament just to raise the standard of cricket in odisha but in return we faced interrogation so we decided its better to opt out of the tournament said a franchisee owner choosing anonymity