Back after a long time !!!

SO finally I find some time to get on with the blog, and it has been a while since I watched cricket.

The Champions T20 is on, the format is exciting. The teams which has come are the really teams.. they play cricket all round the year and not the seasonal like our star studded teams and the result was evident all the Indian teams lost their first match.

This gave rise to an very exciting situation, exciting for me.. if their is any match fixing find of stuff, It can be seen now. Lost of money at stake and with Indian teams out of race, who would buy tickets what about TRP ratings, so the big guys out their would probably make sure Indian teams stay in contention for sure. If the Indian teams are out of the tournament one thing will become ever clear, NO MATCH-FIXING , if all three of the teams qualify, the uncertainity remains, and it boils down to finer details, like how the game was played and which players underperformed by a margin and seemed to have done it on purpose!!!!!, exciting right..

Modi, the honourable IPL chairman and the man behind all this, certainly has drawn lots of inspiration from the football Champions league tournament, and he would have made the mistake of comparing the IPL teams with the English football teams, where since the last two years 3 of the 4 semifinalist are English teams and the fourth teams loosing in semifinal to another English team itself, so a complete dominance. Lalit Modi would have expected that to happen when the tournament was planned, he must now be thinking there could have been more matches in the initial stages, so that the IPL teams get their team bonding right and have better chances. There were no warm up matches so you can't really blame the IPL teams for loosing, because they came up against oppositions, which know their strengths and weaknesses and have played well to their strengths.

If the Indians teams are out the tournament is a flop, The crowd though pays for both the matches has seldom turned up for an non IPL team match, stadium did look empty, and I am sure the people haven't bought tickets in a hurry for the next stage. It would not be the revenue from ticket sales that would really bother these guys but the revenue from television rights advertisements, they will take a big dip.