The inaugral season of IPL had everything that it could have......from great encounters between the 8 teams to poor performanes of hyderabad and bangalore........ from Harbhajan-sreesanth slapsgiving to warne-ganguly debacle............ from sharhrukh khan to preity zinta......... from delhi crowd enjoying sachin getting out to mumbai crowd booing yuvraj singh....... from Dehi skipper Sehwag getting hit by a stone from Delhi audience to people passing comments on cheergirls.......... from great leadership of Shane Warne to great control of emotions from Dhoni's team (making them the winner of Fair Play Award which indeed was a great concept)....... from the orange cap (batsman) to the purple cap (bowler)..... It was full of entertainment.
In the end, Rajasthan Royals came out as winners which they thoroughly deserved as they were at the top of the table after the league stage. We couldn't have asked for more as final was fought till the last ball.
Even the stats show that Rajasthan were miles ahead of other teams.....
- 3 out of top 5 bowlers were from Rajasthan in terms of number of wickets taken........ Sohail Tanveer(pak), Shane Warne(Aus) and Shane Watson(Aus).
- 3 out of top 10 batsmen were fro Rajasthan in terms of runs scored....... Shane Watson(Aus), Graeme Smith(SA) and Yusuf Pathan(Ind).
- Sohail Tanveer was the highest wicket taker of the tournament and Shane Watson getting the Player of the Tournament award.
Best Batsmen: Shaun Marsh(Aus) - 616 runs. Best Bowler: Sohail Tanveer(Pak) - 22 wickets.
IPL's Side effects:
The worst effect of the IPL will be on the Indian team only.... considering the Bhajji - shree slapster......yuvi getting booed at mumbai.... sehwag stoned at delhi..... Even during we saw spat between the Indian playes mostly.... International players of the same country were taking it very lightly when playing against each other in the IPL .......being it shaun pollock v boucher or shane warne v symonds..... but sree v bhajji, amit mishra v yusuf pathan, sreesanth pointing towards the seniors(bujarg) in the new pepsi Ad...
Are Indian cricketers just doing it for publicity???? Is it all about getting famous and not about playing with the spirit of the game????? Wats ur take on this? Do reply to this post.....
9 comments:
nice post on ipl....
well this was really to analytical but i think ipl was all about fun and talent and naturally it served its purpose.
we saw great matches new talents and bcci got rich and more over t-20 becoming popular which makes cricket to compete with fast sports like football and basketball shorting from 5 days to few hours !!!
and as rajsasthan royals win yeaaaaaaaaaaa IPL rocksssssss.
IPL is a new trenseter in the country where cricket is religion and criceters r already considered as a god....what IPL has done is tht its proximity wid bollywood(preity zinta and shahrukh khan r owners of one of franchises)has braught female fans to
cricket...moreover it has commercialized the cricket and has created the club like ambience....knight riders and rajasthan royals r already among profits this year...and BCCI got arnd 370 frm ipl matches+300 frm franchise fees...ringing the cash registers of bcci...jst 44 dayz of cricket has doubled the balance of bcci......so guyz wait for next season--it would be more glamour...more billion...better cheerleaders...more fun
hmmm nice article.. but i dont think it heighlights enough the contributions of the ungung stars of cricket... shane watson isnt considered for aus team, neither was yusuf pathan, shawn marsh has shown that he can hit the ball to all the parts of the park... so i think ipl has done more than just entertain... it has provided a platform to showcase new tallent and has provided them the deserved appriciation for it.
With the success of ipl we sholud also thank ICL case if it wasnt of it bcci wouldn't have come up with such a novel idea...
with leagues being formed in SA and australia.. i would love to see ipl being formed into something on the footsteps of soccer.......
ne by the way... we all have seen ipl so yr post din help much ;) hehe no offense
@ Wizard - "but i dont think it heighlights enough the contributions of the ungung stars of cricket... shane watson isnt considered for aus team, neither was yusuf pathan, shawn marsh"
yusuf pathan, Ojha - selected for indian team for ODIs v bangladesh
Shaun Marsh - selected for Australia team ODIs v westindies
yeah....its a v v good article ...truly a gentelmens article :) and yes RR has proved they r the best throughout the tournament from the start to the very end...before the IPL started the favorated were DC and least were RR but the experience of SW did the trick ..... and its bad luck for Australia who didnt have the best captaining their team...but yes they found a new valuable player SM...waiting for IPL-2..........--->>>
@ Umang
That is what i said... that ur article misses out that aspect... it only says of the fun n glammor... so i would suggest u read yr article.... (hehe sry cant help it)
Awesome post!
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