IPL is back. Its ironic that an event with "indian" in its name, isn't happening in india - even though it created a dent in the pride of "new india", most of the cricket loving folks like me are just happy that the event is happening after all the drama and the cat-n-mice game between the indian cricket board and indian government officials. Power hungry people on both sides trying to prove their mettle and look what happened in the end, it benefited a third party (SA).
Even if the event achieves 75% of the success it did last year, then the credit would go to CSA for stepping into big large boots of their indian counterpart and an arrogant-but-smart business minded individual heading the entire show.With the game time, it also bought in some extra glamor and glitz to this event, this year with addition of shilpa shetty, to the already omnipresent preity and shah-ruk-rukhh khan.
IPL-2, with one week to go already had its share of controversy and tabloid news.
Gavaskar ridiculing KKR and ruk-rukhh khan returning the favor in kind, sourav ganguly with his share of insecurities and stubborn attitude etc
When the game starts next weekend in capetown, hopefully it will be a lot of fun for tens of millions of cricket crazy indians (includes me!)
Hopefully this year challenger fans will have something to cheer about, but delhi and chennai look very strong compared to other teams and chargers, like last year look like the favorites to grab the first spot - from the bottom.
Cricinfo fantasy league is here - http://fantasy.cricinfo.com/fantasy/fantasyleague/user/home.html
More rumbles later - chill!
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