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Not so good things about IPL

Saturday, March 27, 2010 Labels: , , , , , 1 comments


Due to so much money in stake and superlative marketing watching IPL will be somewhat annoying to general cricket followers. Rahul Fernandes of CNN-IBN has expressive it very comprehensively at 6 things I hate about the IPL.

His six things are

  • Aankhon-Dekha (Be)haal: The pathetic hinglish commentary by Arun Lal, Atul Wassan, Saba Karim and Co.
  • Environmental Tokenism: Double standards indeed telling green-green before start of the match and pumping huge volumes of smokes by bursting fireworks after the match
  • Karbonn Footprints: DLF Maximum, Citi moment of success, Karbonn kamal catch .. not sure how many are in the pipeline.
  • Lalit 'I Am Everywhere' Modi: over-enthusiastic single parent who won't take his eye off his child even for a nanosecond
  • Dugout Blues: franchise owners have no business sitting in the dugout
  • Aggrieved Party: Players have to now compulsorily attend after-parties in the company of some dishy women and, of course, ubiquitous team owners.

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Will it be underdog again ?

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After KKR's victory over demoralized Kings XI, there's buzz around whether in this IPL too there will be emergence of an underdog and who go on to reach the pinnacle ? The star of the evening was Tiwari, as he ended up taking all three prizes in the evening Man of the match, Karbonn Kamal Catch and DLF maximum. Feel sorry for him to miss the bus for upcoming T20 world cup.

The bottom-line of the evening was that KKR looks to be pretty decent side on the field too. They have great variety in bowling and now with the inclusion of Chris Gayle and David Hussey in the line up the team looks very much stronger. On top of that their captain Saurav Ganguly got sufficient runs next to his name.


Before today's game, the team was virtually written off after their three consecutive losses. Will today's evening performance will be U-turn in the fortunes of most talked about and controversial team of the league.

If you go by the short history of the league, in the first edition Rajasthan Royals who initially criticized to be following a 'low cost model' went on to win the inaugural trophy. In the second season the bottom performer of the season-one i.e. Deccan Chargers emerged as champions. So Does IPL 3.0 belongs to KKR who finished last in IPL 2.0 ? Let's wait and watch as their unofficial star player Bredon McCullun is bound to join the line-up next week. He will be very much charged up to give a thumping reply to his criticism in season-two.

New-jersey, New Coach can make a lot of difference !

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IPL 3.0 Week 2 - Too close to call

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After 2 weeks of IPL 3.0 there's no clear favourites for the semi-final. However a few teams Bangalore and Mumbai are already termed as favourites because of their consistent performance and also being on top of the league table for the whole week.
  • The match of the week, and so far of the tournament was the tied match between Kings XI and Chennai Super Kings. The latter choked horribly and screwed up the proceedings in the super over.
  • The battle of toppers Mumbai v/s Bangalore the latter emerged as winners steered by good performances of Kallis and Vinay Kumar.
  • Rajasthan Royals were back in limelight with hat-trick wins. They are still in the contest. With yesterday’s victory over Deccan Chargers they have definitely made a statement to their critics.
  • Preity Zinta turns philosophical and says “It’s the journey that matters not the destination”. Looks like she’s already given up hopes of her struggling team making into semi-finals.
  • The team to beat Bangalore Royal Challengers were beaten convincingly by rejuvenated Delhi Dare Devils.
  • Jacques Kallis finally got his average as he was dismissed for the first time CSK’s bowler Laxmipati Balaji.
  • It was a hopeless week for KKR and CSK as they failed to win even a single match.
  • The Karbon kamal catch of the week was by DDR’s AB de Villiers. It was absolute stunner when caught Praveen Kumar attempted ‘DLF maximum’ just feets away from long-on boundary.
  • The daemon of ‘team-selection” for T-20 was running over everyone’s head. Robin Utthappa was unfortunate to miss the bus but the biggest gainer was Vinay Kumar after his back to back good performances against Mumbai and Chennai. The 3-wicket over against MI, which in fact turned the match would have brought him under selectors microscope.
  • The other talking point of week was auction two new teams for season-4. Pune(Sahara group) and Kochi(Rendezvous Group) emerged as winners

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IPL 3.0 – Week 1

Saturday, March 20, 2010 Labels: , , , , , 0 comments

After all hype and dramas the third edition of the IPL was kicked off at the DY Patil stadium Navi Mumbai.
Following are the a few highlights.
  • Defending champions lost the inaugural match .. following the usual trend in major sporting events.
  • Mumbai Indians is the only unbeaten team so far. They have kept their feet on the ground so far along with their captain who has done the same throughout the career. Many people say this IPL belongs to Mumbai as Tendulkar is not only top of his batting form but also cricketing form,
  • The team which finished on top of the league table RR and Kings XI are on bottom of the table by losing their all their matches. Preity Zinta’s change-the-fortune salwar-kameez act could not any impact.
  • Warne’s intuition has gone horribly wrong. One can easily justify it after seeing RR 10 wickets loss to Bangalore.
  • In the first edition of IPL people used to say – “Yusuf brother of Irfan”. Now people saw “Irfan brother of Yusuf”.
  • Delhi Daredevils look to be in good form but they lost their last two matches. 2 loss and 2 wins. But lot of matches remaining.
  • KKR look to be a better team with their new Coach – Dave Whatmore, new bowling coach – Wasim Akram and of course with their new purple color jersey.
  • Old timers are have been best performers. Chamind Vaas with bowl and purple cap, Jacques Kallis with bat and orange cap. The latter is not yet dismissed in the tournament and hence to get an average next to his stats.
  • The major setback has been series of injuries, Dhoni and Ghambir being on top of the list being captains of their respective sides.
  • The major player missing in 3.0 is FakeIPLPlayer. Not sure what is he doing all this day.
  • After all speculations the revolutionary mongoose bat was put into act by Mathew Hayden and utilizing it effectively to win match for his team.

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