Monday, June 09, 2008

Indian Pathetic League

The IPL (read my abbreviation) finally ended and am happy that 45 days of playing the game everyday(!!) is over!

I don't how can a game be played everyday that to two times with the same opponent and people pay up money for that and watch it also! I mean, if it was one round I wouldn't have been bothered but two time and 45 days of non-stop cricket - SHIT man!

Firstly, this 20-20 is not really a good format for cricket. I suppose cricket was started with test matches, then they started the one-day matches. Now after seeing that people have less patience, they reduced it to 20 overs! This is really sad. But I must accept that this 20 overs match is nice to watch! But I swear not everyday!!

Strong side for the batsmen and a weakness to the bowlers. I mean if you bowl well, okay 'Super Cool' and you get some purple cap or blue cap(!) If you don't, thats all! There are millions of people and cricket commenter's who curse you and give you a black cap!![I pity balaji for bowling the last over against Rajasthan Royals in the final match)

Moving over to our dear IPL, I would call this series 'a collection of drama'. Cheerleaders showing away their skin happily, Sreesanth crying in front of hundreds of people, Harbhajan the next day happily hugs Sree, Vijay Mallya's sickest behavior, playing loud music of Tamil, indi songs and distracting the players, celebrities in the VIP section bringing the family and constantly waving to the camera, Preity Zinta hugging Yuvaraj Singh on every occasion possible and loadza more!!

IS THIS CRICKET ? THE CRICKET WE USED TO SEE ? ?

I don't say celebrities should not come and witness the match, but doing a series of drama in front of the camera is BAD!! From the beginning there was something wrong in this IPL! Auctioning of players, icon players and on. The idea of bringing young players (under 19 and on) is good. But why give all the publicity to the International players and unwanted movie stars in this? Then whats the whole point of encouraging them man ?

I really don't get the point. Cricket is called as the 'Gentleman's Game' and now? I really don't get the point of adding GLAMOR to cricket. Already cricket is in the top position in India [Guess it should be re-christened as our National Game] and now adding too mMASALA to it and spoiling other games too! Guys this a SPORT and not some Bollywood MOVIE to have song, dance and crap!

I am extremely worried about the game. The game where once I liked seems to fade away! Highly disappointed with this. Hope these players play good sport in the coming years at least and also young players should be given a better platform to display their talents.

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Even though I disliked some parts of the game structure, I really admired few things that happened in the game. So here goes my list;

3 cheers to....
  1. Team Rajasthan Royals - For putting up such an extraordinary show and made the whole country look upon them!
  2. Shane Warne - For his guts in bringing and believing the youth of our nation and brought out their talents in them! Especially Yusuf pathan, even I thought he was not good a batsmen.
  3. MS Dhoni - I am in love with him! :) I mean he is totally fantastic! He stayed calm till the end of series even though the team suffered loss in the middle. And he did not make us feel bad about losing in the finals as he made the team give their best. I just adore you man![Chennai Super Kings Rocks]
  4. Rahul Dravid - For withstanding all the embarrassment Mallya made. I think he was perfect, but his team wasn't. Don't you worry dude, you are always the 'The wall for Indian cricket'! [I read an article about the issue and one gentleman wrote "Rahul is great player and it's not fair to blame him for this. I think he is just not designed for 20-20 as he is for test matches] - very true!
  5. Team Hyderabad - Esp their team owner for not harassing the team like Mallya did. Also for Adam Gilchrist's effort to train them a little.
  6. ShahRukh Khan - He is just brilliant, if he gets into politics am sure he will go places. He was just great, especially when the team was not doing well you should see what message he gave to his team, "Even though we did bad, exit from the game decently so that we are not badly treated"... Thats fantastic and I also liked his answer given back to Mallya!
There is lots more I admired but these are the in the top list! Now let me begin with what I hated the most!

Middle - finger to :
  1. Mallya - For harassing the team captain Dravid and Charu Sharma. Has he got brains? I mean he has insulted one of the most brilliant player! If the team is not performing well it is not fair to blame them like that!His utmost 'kid-behavior' is the biggest joke of the series! When this news broke, my sister commented saying "He is a drunkard know thats why he is behaving like this"... I still cannot stop laughing ;-)
  2. Sreesanth - I HATE HIM! I once liked him and now I hate him more the times I liked him! What is he doing man? Crying like a kid and showing aggressive faces like a beast ? Is this sportsman spirit? Doesn't he know how to behave or should he get some discipline classes ? I don't know how they left him with a warning, he had 'bad-behavior' record and I think he should be penalized! I think he should get some anger-management classes or get into film acting and play villain roles. He doesn't need any practice, he can show faces to all the heroes and behave like an animal!
  3. Bhajji - The same applies to him! Mr. bhajji alais sojji what are doing ? Slapping sree and calling symonds in a **** bad words ? Either you play cricket or eat bajji
  4. (These both may be great bowlers, but they lack the sportsman spirit and basic decency!! )
  5. Cheerleaders - To all those half naked women out there, go away to your country and stop spoiling the brothers of our country! ;-)
I happily end my long post here~

Giggles:-)
Sharu!

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