THE urge to enjoy the happiness and satisfaction that surrounds after one has finished writing a blog, has made me to getup and start tapping on my lappi's keyboard. i quickly thought wat cud be the topic, immediately it striked how about IPL - which is not so popular this time around - so y not try to turn the cards by throwing some light onto this seasons cricket league !
IPL in itself is a great business idea which took birth in the mind of Lalit Modi. Not many and that too not many cricket fans must have heard his name before, who only came to limelight after he started fighting to make way to have this happen.
He (is an MBA) used to be linked to BCCI at some post, came up with this lucrative business idea of "franchise owned cricket", which at its mere introduction seems to be a best bet in a cricket fanatic nation like ours. And then mixing glamour with it makes it, makes it all the more exciting with short 20 20 matches serving like a movie entertainment.
On a serious note, to me it seemed in that last year's IPL, the two teams who came up in the finals, were exceedingly the best amongst all in terms of how their captains showed leadership, team management and building skills, be it the Warne's RR or the Dhoni's superkings, they had in them. It was indeed a close match and no one cud have expected a better finish with one team ending on a loosing by a margin of mere 1 run - and at the end of which seeing Dhoni walking around gathering his boys saying - "we haven't lost"! i felt, he was right. If 1 team has to win, other has to loose and loosing by 1 run is not a loss! It shows how competetive the two teams are and are fighting for the best sPOt..
This season's IPL - unfortunately or fortunately has to be moved to South Africa, as the dates were coinciding with that that of general elections (another
exciting show - i often find the results declaration analogous to some exam result declaration with leader being the exam givers :-)).
Any country would have jumped on to this opportunity (mind it - hostign such a big event means huge profit to the hosting nation), whcih came to some folks as Modi's good negotiating skills and relentless urge to have it oranized at any cost.
Finally it was there (thought it happend with 8 days delay). It started off with KKR's victory, which ironically couldnt register another win for a very long time (11 consecutive losses) until it came in their second last league match only yesterday! There is something whcih can be attributed to their downfall, ppl speculate that it is coz of presence of so many leaders in their camp - which is sometimes called xtra baggage - ganguly, then srk, then coach john buchanan, phisio john gloster, separate fielding coach, then mc cullum the captain himself...and lots of supporting staff!
It also came in the talks that this IPL will be different from what cud it be if it was hosted in India, that games will be low scoring and SA pitches are
not suited to bat on. teams which have good bowling line up will have an advantage - which came to be the right hypothesis as MI (with malinga, bhajji, zaheer ),
did seem to be strong by winning matches by virtue of good bowling.
Till the mid way of the tournament, it was not clear as to which team would be going into semis. DD and CSK were at the top 2 positons, but the race for 3rd
and 4th positions was still on for rest of 6 teams which diminished to 4 teams after KKR and MI made themselves out of the tournament. Still it is in b/w
deccan chargers and RR's, but KXIP and BRC are also fighting hard to sneak in into that position. CSK loosing to KKR and DD loosing to BRC in the last two games makes
it all the more exciting as the two spots are still open !!
I for one would like to see CSK and DD in the finals with DD's moving away with the tropy!
cheers!
signing off ..happy ipl!
