This is what IPL is for me. Batsman seems to be in hurry to finish off as if some long pending work is waiting outside the cricket ground (may be shopping) and if he doesn’t finish match earlier than one and half hour he has to face the death sentence written by his wife/girl friend.  Bowler looks almost a clueless guy ..in a Siddhuism language..bowler behaves as if a child caught in a topless bar and fielder seems to be one who is there only to bring back the ball whacked by batsman…..I get thrilled during this 3 hr saga only for moments when the so called fielder (according to me those are only runners …they run only to bring back the ball) gets a chance to catch the ball or a run-out chance (which anyway he misses as it is an ‘Indian’ Premiere League), because that is the rare occasion during those 3 hrs. One entity which gets huge benefit from this and that entity is ‘An Umpire’. They get very good exercise throughout the match.   After all batsmen ask for more repetition of same move from umpire and those repetition increase per match.

                                    I was just brainstorming on what will start disappearing from the sport after this overdose of ‘T-20’ version and I think the list will definitely cross one full page.  The biggest danger is remembering a ‘Test’ match will be a test for an IPL fan. We will lose the thrill of watching tricks done by new ball. Slip catcher will definitely loose the market value as over some years ‘Slips’ are going to slip out from cricket’s dictionary.  Art of short catching will lose its sheen.  The list will go on….!!

                                    Ohh…I missed the ‘Mam’ part…There are no gifts, vouchers, free lunches for guessing these mams. Very ‘well’ dressed people sitting(?) on sides of this big soap-opera, dancing continuously  for 3 hours. Dancing on India Tunes after every  boundry or wicket fall is like watching a song starring Alok Nath and Reema Lagu (essentially from Suraj Badjatya’s film) in between Ramu’s ‘Bhoot’. You are half way through savoring (?) taste of the shot and suddenly some hindi song’s instrumental gets started and you have no other option than looking at those dancers.

                                    And what can I say about spectators! They are the gini-pigs on which the first experiment called ‘ICL’ failed. But taking residuals from that experiment Lalit Modi presented the same form in a more packaged way and the result…..huge money, record breaking TRPs and furious fan of Test Cricket!!

Kerry Packer, founder of the World Cricket Series, the man who laid the plinth of the ODI’s long back, bought Packer Cricus in front of the world, people were getting tired of the over longing 5 Day Test Series, the man changed the definition of Cricket.

We all have witnessed batsmen rising, fast bowlers showing nightmares to batsman in daylight, spinners doozling the ball from off to leg stump…..

Years passed, year and half ago, Kapil Dev launched Indian Cricket League, the only sole purpose behind it was to create a space for each and every player to play in the limelight, which the BCCI was not able to do so…..

The Indian Team for many years, was blind folded with players, who were stubborn on their positions in the team irrespective of their performances, where the other truth is that for past 28 Years the Indian Soil has not seen the flavor of a World Cup……

Keeping in mind the one and only Kapil Dev bought in the ICL 20-20 with players who were waiting for their chance to come in the Indian Team, he carved in the place for such players, truly Kapil was , is and always will be a true champion.

Then to Contest ICL, BCCI launched IPL in no time, blocked ICL from ICC saying ICL is not approved, IPL bought in the fame, fantasy, and players all around the world ….. no matter both ICL and IPL generate money, but the cause of ICL and IPL are different ….

ICL’s till date motto is to get a player sitting outside the field to get him in… and IPL wants to outright ICL…. thats the difference…

We have gathered here to talk about IPL ….but the innovative idea of fast and furious cricket was of Kerry Packer ….

So guys, come forward and share in your views as what improvement you would like to make in IPL …. whose your fav. team … what you would have done if you were the IPL Commisioner.