Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab are out of IPL for now.  Equal amount of outrage and welcome. Journos writing for Yahoo, ToI would cry foul and tears.  Few twitterers would mock and joke along. Test Cricket and ODI lovers would give a damn. I belong to the same category. 

I believe even though being indifferent to ouster of this teams, this could clean up the IPL image a bit. Given the misdeeds of Lalit Modi spoilt the image and landed the IPL in mess, this cleanup act should act as a stern warning to the other franchisees to get their act right. I am no expert on legal stuff, so i wont say a word on what’s right and what’s wrong. 

So here is what would happen:

1. Shilpa Shetty would cry in public. Earn sympathy on twitter and news channels. Curse the media, would get sympathetic tweets from few players of her team. Even more she would get some hugs from SRK, her sister, Karan Johar and other fashion designers who made money out of IPL but didnot know a name of player of the RR and laws of the game. 
2. IPL franchisee owners would cry foul over BCCI. Already there are slavery talks. Get out this franchisee owners. 
3. Preity ZInta would stop hugging and kissing her players. 
4. We would get rid of Sangakara for good.
5. Shilpa Shetty would cry on tv.
6. Raj Kundra would sue BCCI.
7. Shilpa Shetty’s name would now be extinct from cricketing circles.

BCCI would be unfazed and carry on with the IPL4. Modi or no Modi, the real stars are the players who have been the part of teams. And until they do not perform the IPL would not die. Cut out this set of people and bring in. Show would go on.

FAKE IPL Player exposed?

There have been news or rumors that Ranadeb Bose(Gulu Ezikel claims this) was the fake IPL player and there have been rumors that the blog has been disappeared (TOI). What is true not sure but one thing for sure he has created lotsa flutters and given a tight slap to the owner of KKR — SRK.

The basis on which the author claims the Bose man to be fake IPL player is that last year he was kicked out the team midway. So going on that grounds we would even have a fake IPL blog on Rajasthan Royals team as 7 players were axed. I am game to read more and more about the Bigg Brother victorious lady who besides acting cheap and fake on racial comment by Jade Goody on UK tc show has nothing on platter to flaunt as her achievement. 16 years into the Bollywood and she has no movie to flaunt as a major success. Anybody for a blog on her insider talks ?

Commentary in IPL

The commentary in the IPL is ridiculous and barring Shastri, Sunny and Mark Nicholas there is nobody who could claim to be a good orator. Abbas Ali Baig was hell and Fernando as usual copy pastes the contents of the fellow commentator to his mouth and then makes a delay of 0.5-1.5 seconds and speaks the same thing with a tongue twist. Wicket becomes wikat and Murali becomes Murralidaran. Greg Blewett is Modi’ere ‘s crush and I have seen her 2 or 3 times making advances towards poor Aussie. Mandira Bedi and the Max presenters including Chang and Channel V VJ are pathetic. They believe the cricket public in India is bit moderate in knowledge and the IPL would be an unknown commodity for them.

If you watch Extra Innings with extra patience you would get what I want to say. Arun Lal, man, he runs into my nerves. I seriously believe he should gracefully leave the studio before he becomes the 5th man in India to have hurled the footwear at. And not to say that the jargons of the sponsors are as irritating as the flashing smiles of Shilpa Shetty. Every six is being termed as DLF maximum. So now every single would be a DLF minimum. Shastri or the opening commentator thanks the sponsors in the initial moments of every match and that’s ridiculous to hear. DLF maximum could be another term coined now to call the “eunuch” in India who go often on the ransom rounds. A six in Hindi is a chakka and that’s the common man’s term used to refer a eunuch.

IPL Kicks off today

IPL kicks off today.

My bet on today s winners:

1st game : Mumbai Indians simply for presence of Zaheer, Padma Miss Bhajan and Sachin Tendulkar….

2nd game : Royals with talisman presence of Shane Warne who can now ball with speed of 100 mph and swing ball more and more with bowling under the wicket thanks to Ms Dumb Shilpa Bihar Chor Shetty.

I hope you can spin more.

“I hope you can spin more.”
Rajasthan Royals stakeholder Shilpa Shetty has great expectations of one of the team’s fast bowlers, Siddharth Trivedi, at an event announcing the team’s sponsor

Stop making the mock of the game. Got a stake? Alright, be happy and content. Stay out of free advice on cricketing matters to the players you picked up. Let the captain and coach do what they want to do to drive the things on field and on 22 yards. You should be content with giving a shake shake to your hips and roll a leg or two. Or better sit in London apartment and sip a coffee / wine or 2. But please don’t spoil the game of cricket with your sheer ignorance, ridiculous at its best. Or else if you aint content with the rock n roll thingie, stick around with Warney as Zinta does with her skipper (Yuvraj Singh). I hope you don’t give advice to Warney to swing the ball more in or out.

Mourtaza : IPL Auction Update – II

He was nemesis of Indian defeat in 2007 World Cup. He was also one of the reason responsible for defeat in 2004 in Bangladesh. He was supposed to be one of the ok type player to be put on the auction. He has been poor man’s Shoaib Akhtar. One of the good players in BD team who can be termed as decent. Injuries’ famous son and now the most talked about player in the IPL Auction 2. Being sold for 1100% more than his base price is like ooh la la. His life has been made and his folks in BD would celebrate the windfall. And guess wot who got him. Dada. Dada replaced Shoaib Akhtar and Umar Gul with Mourtaza. How much change it would bring to SRK;s team is yet to be known but for sure the KKR have created a furore by buying out for 1100% more than what cud have been base price.

Shakib Al Hasan, surprising # 1 allrounder (never mind he got there by playing against SL, Zim and Ken) was not touched by anybody. ICC was shown again in black face when its rankings weren’t considered.

Besides this it was English flavor in the auction. Perhaps indicator of the things to come. Few days back ECB was against IPL, now its own 2 former skippers are the most sought players in the IPL. Strange times this. Never mind. The stage is set for season 2 of the cricket with Bollywood entertainment mix. It had PZ, SRK in it last season, now it has Big Brother Shilpa Shetty too. Thin is in.