IPL and money!

May 26, 2009 Entertainment, Sports

It’s only in its second season yet, but the term IPL and money have almost become synonymous. It’s no  doubt that the 20-20 cricket format has been evolved for wholesome entertainment-with all the music, cheerleaders and sixes, and anything which entertains has huge money attached to it; especially when its cricket. Needless to say IPL has made all the parties attached to it-the players, team owners, BCCI and sponsors; all happy.

Well a little bit about the Indian premier league’s origin- so it’s only in its second season, it was launched by the BCCI in the year 2008. The format of the IPL is much on the lines of English premier league (remember all the flashy names like Knight Riders and Deccan chargers!), and the much controversial cheerleaders are also taken from it. The IPL is basically based on the franchise system where the highest bidder gets to own the team. Also this encourages a lot of betting. That is the reason that IPL has huge stakes involved in it. In fact it is not just a sport now, it’s more of a business and the businesspersons involved are A class celebs. Be it SRK, Preity Zinta or  Ambani, all of them are big time celebrities. They all have huge stakes in their own teams in IPL, amounting to some hundred crores of rupees! And here is the jaw dropping figure- the total base price for auction in IPL was whopping $400 million! Quite a sum I would call it.

Dhoni was the most expensive player in the first season bought by the Chennai super Kings team and now in season two Andrew Flintoff has beaten Dhoni for the most expensive player title. Basically there much more than meets the eye at the IPL. It has graduated from being a sport to being a form of entertainment and currently the IPL is Post Graduating from being entertainment to a big money making industry.

Tags: BCCI, Cheerleaders, Chennai Super Kings, Cricket, Entertainment, Flintoff, Indian Premiere League, Indian Premiere League 2009, IPL, Players, Sports, Team Owners

Deccan Chargers Won the Second Version of DLF IPL!

May 26, 2009 Sports

Indian Premiere League 2009 is over now, and I am really surprised to see the winner of this tournament. Not only I but many others are also feeling in the same way. No one ever assumed that a team which went for the last place during the last year will become the champions this time.

The credit should be given to the skipper of the Deccan Chargers Adam Gilhcrist. He lead the site upfront from the very beginning and he got the support from his team members especially like Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Gibbs and finally he hold the championship.

The tournament at the initial level was very much exciting and till the very last league match it was not sure that which team is going to meet for the semi final matches. If you see the Points Table of the DLF IPL 2009 then you will see that Delhi Daredevils is at the top of the table with 20 points in 14 matches.

On the other hand Chennai Super Kings were at the second position. While the position three and four was decided after the last league match of the tournament, and the most surprising thing is that the number four team defeated the number three team in the finals and thus became the champions.

If you calculate the total points after the finals then you can see that Deccan Chargers who played 16 matches and got only 18 points is the champion of the tournament while Delhi Daredevils with 20 points in 15 matches are not the champions. How will the organizers define this?

Any ways, it the system of the tournament which actually works in the manner that the team which will perform good in the last two matches i.e. the semi final and the final will become the champions. So we should not think about the positioning of the teams in the points table.

Batting first after losing the toss, Deccan Chargers was schoked by the Jumbo. In the very first over he dismissed the danger man and the player of the tournament Adam Gilchrist. After the fall of Gilly other plyers like Suman, Symonds and Rohit Sharma along with Gibbs restored the innings of the Deccan Chargers and finally they manage to make 143 runs. A target of 144 was looking easier for Royal Challengers Bangalore and the way in which Van Der Merwe and Taylor were batting it was looking easily achievable, but they fell short of a few runs.

The main reason behind the loss of match for Royal Challengers Bangalore was the lack of the good partnership. No one even tried to stay for a few minutes on the creaze. Thus Deccan Chargers became the winner of the Indian Premiere League 2009.

Congratulations to all the members associated with the Decccan Chargers.

Tags: Adam Gilchrist, Champions, Chennai Super Kings, Deccan Chargers, Delhi Daredevils, Gibbs, Gilchrist, Gilly, Indian Premiere League, Indian Premiere League 2009, IPL, IPL 2009, IPL Tournament, Points Table, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Royal Challengers Bangalore

My Favorite IPL Team for this Session!

Apr 18, 2009 Special Feature, Sports

Last year my favorite team was Kolkata Knight Riders, though the team did not played well enough to reach to the semifinal stage but till the last match I supported the team. Although I liked the Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils too but none of them reached to the finals of the IPL session one last year.

Many people were asking me the favorite team for this session, so I thought to post my choice. As expected it was Kolkata Knight Riders till two days back, but the removal of Saurav Ganguly as the skipper of the team caused my heart break and I decided to not follow the team matches now. I strongly believe that Saurav Ganguly was the best ever player from Kolkata so far, and he should be the skipper of any team which is basically developed in the name of Kolkata. It is one sort of insult for Dada, and I would not support the team now.

This session I have also decided that I am not going to support the matches in which Harbhajan Singh and Mahender Singh Dhoni were playing. It is because that these two players were my favorite players, but a few days’ back they insulted the nation, by skipping the Padma Shri award function, which is the most prestigious award for the civilians of India. This clearly indicates that these people are now an image which is bigger than their country, which I never appreciate, although I know I am no one to put finger on these celebrities, they are such a big guys that they would not be affected from such type of opposes, but, still I think I should oppose them. I love my country India and I will never support the people who will do any thing to insult my nation, so I am here by announcing that I will not support the Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians any way in the matches from now on.

I think that Mr. Dhoni is now thinking that no one will ever replace him from the captaincy of Team India, but friend you never know when you are out from the frame. People love you because you have served the nation, but if you are going to insult the nation no one is going to love you then. Same for Mr. Bhajji too, we still remember the face of Bhajji after the slap incident (with Shreesanth during last session) and when BCCI was suppose to ban him forever.

Any ways, I do like the Mumbai Indians team because of the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, who was not only the icon but he is the greatest son of India. MS Dhoni and Harbhajan should at least take a few lesson from him, he has never missed any such type of award function despite the busy schedule. Any ways leave the issue now, so the three teams are out of my mind and they are KKR, MI, and CSK. Now coming to the fourth team which is for sure not suppose to get my support, and that is Rajasthan Royals, the defending champions.

I have mentioned the reasons against them in the last article: The Best Example of Globalization. Now out of the remaining four team Kings XI Punjab, Delhi Daredevils, Bangalore Royal Challengers, and Deccan Chargers, I don’t have any reason to support the last two depending on the performance in the last session. So for me only two options are left, one of them is Kings XI Punjab. I like the team but I am not the supporter of this team.

So this year I am going to support the Delhi Daredevils, the reason behind this is the form of the dashing openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. Other then them I too like Amit Mishra, Ashish Nehra, Manoj Tiwary, Farvej Maharoof, McGrath and Dilshan. So for this session my favorite team for IPL 2 is Delhi Daredevils.

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Indian Premier League 2009 – IPL 2!

Apr 6, 2009 Entertainment, Sports

I still remember the days when the first session of Indian Premier League was going on, after the evening not many people are looking outside their home. Everybody was just sitting in front of their TV screen and was watching the match. No one was looking interested to do any work except cheering for his or her favorite team.

The TRP of the SET MAX the official broadcaster of the tournament increased within very first week of the tournament and remain at the highest level throughout the tournament. Max was looking keen to gain the same TRP once again during the second version of the smaller format of the cricket match. As we are well aware that Indian Premier League, which is popularly known as IPL, is organized by the Indian cricket board BCCI. It is a tournament of twenty 2o cricket matches.

A few days back lots of drama evolved around the organization of the second version of the IPL, which is going to be known as IPL 2. The actual problem was the dates which were colliding with the general by elections in India, and thus Indian Government was not so much interested to take the risk. After the Mumbai attack government was not really looking to provide any opportunity to the terrorists. So lots of arguments came in and against the organization of the IPL 2 and finally the organizing body decided to take away the organization from India to some neutral locations.

After much consideration between England and South Africa for the possible location to host IPL 2, BCCI decided to organize the IPL 2 in South Africa. The detailed schedule of the IPL 2 is given below:

With the World Cup of Twenty20 is scheduled after the IPL 2, so it will definitely provide a good platform for practice to our players, as we know that we are the world champions. So hopefully at the end of this IPL 2 we can be able to provide much match practices to the players for the Team India for T20 World Cup.

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Tags: Bangalore Royal Challengers, Chennai Super Kings, Cricket, Deccan Chargers, Delhi Daredevils, India, Indian Premiere League, IPL, IPL 2, Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Khight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, South Africa, T 20, Tweny 20, World Cup

First DLF IPL: Rajasthan Royals got the crown!

Jun 2, 2008 Sports

Rajasthan Royals won the first IPL finals on Sunday at Dr. DY Patil stadium in Mumbai. The royals leaded by Shane Warne won against M S Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings by three wickets against the target of 164 set by CSK. Rajasthan were awarded a cheque of Rs. 4.8 crores.

The last over of the match was the deciding over and was really nail biting as the victory was undecided till the last delivery. Finally the trophy was over taken by the Rajasthan Royals. Yusuf Pathan from winning side with his 56 runs off 39 balls and taking three wickets emerged as the hero of the day. He is awarded the DLF maximum sixes as well as the man of the match award.

Lots of turning points in the match kept the viewers stick to their chairs. Graeme Smith, who is out with a hamstring injury, was replaced by Kamran Akmal in Rajasthan Royal team. After winning the toss, Shane Warne invited the Chennai Super Kings to bat. Stephen Fleming and Parthiv Patel gave an impressive steady start. Raina added the highest individual runs of 43 runs to the team. Dhoni remained not out with 29 runs adding to the total of 163.

Royals got his first stroke as the loss of Niraj Patel at the start of the game who made only 2 runs. Later the play swung up and the score rises. The catches dropped of Yusuf Pathan at 13 and 33 cost Chennai Super Kings a lot. The fielding aspect of Chennai Super Kings was at lowest yesterday.

Pathan hit massive sixes making the target easy for the team to hold the IPL trophy with highest individual score of 56 in the final.

Shane Warne-Sohail Tanwir partnership for the 8th wicket was also very crucial for the team.

Sohail Tanvir — the wrong-footed pacer from Pakistan, for his 22 wickets, won the purple cap while the orange cap for the highest scorer went to Shaun Marsh of Kings XI Punjab.

Australia’s Shane Watson, who played a key role in Rajasthan Royal’s title triumph, was declared as the man of the tournament with 474 runs, including four half centuries, and 17 wickets.

In spite of lots of controversies, first IPL mixed with glamour and entertainment was a grand success.

Here comes the champions of the first IPL Tournament:

Tags: Champions, Chennai Super Kings, DLF IPL, DLF IPL Final, First IPL, IPL, MS Dhoni, Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Sohail Tanvir, Yusuf Pathan

Chennai Super Kings won again by 6 runs, Mumbai’s second loss!

Apr 24, 2008 Sports

Mumbai Indians, in the absence of injured master blaster Sachin Tendulakar, have to face defeat once again. Struggling to chase the target of 209 set by Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians could able to reach 200 only and lost the game by 6 runs in MA Chidamabaram stadium in Chennai.

Mathew Hayden’s brilliant inning of 81 runs helped Chennai Super Kings to score a mammoth 208/5 in 20 overs against Mumbai Indians. Australian opener Mathew’s powerful batting included 11 magnificent fours and 2 huge sixes in 46 balls. The inning was the best score of Hyden in 20-20. Captain Dhoni also gave wonderful shots in last overs and made 30 runs of 16 balls.

Elected to bat first, Chennai Super Kings lost two quick wickets in the form of Parthiv Patel (14) and Mike Hussey (5). But soon after the loss, Hayden and Suresh Raina helped the team to build a solid ground of 82/2 within 10 overs and afetr 14 overs it became 137/2.

Suresh Raina completed his half century scoring 53 runs of 37 balls and shot 3 fours and 3 sixes.

Mumbai Indians have a very slow start losing both the openers Luke Ronchi and Sanath Jayasuriya early in the innings. Robin Uthappa stabilised the team a little making 43 out of 36 before bowled out by Joginder Sharma. Uthappa’s only sixer was 100th six of the tournament.

Later Shaun Pollock and Dwayne Bravo joined the battle to reach a score of 86/3 after 10 overs. But soon they were dismissed after they wrapped up at 17 and 24 runs respectively.

Harbhajan singh gave a fast score of 28 runs out of 14 balls including 6 great sixes and a four while A Nayar gave a superb knock of 45 runs out of 20 balls and 6 fours and 1 six. These fast innings gave a hope to Mumbai Indians to cross the target but they lost the game by a narrow difference of 6 runs.

It is the second consecutive loss for Mumbai Indians; the first was against the Bangalore Royal Challangers. On the other hand Chennai Super Kings are now on cloud nine after this second victory. Earlier they have defeated Kings XI Punjab in their home ground.

Tags: Chennai Super Kings, IPL, Mumbai Indians