There is overdose of Cricket and will there be viewer-fatigue !
The WC was won – but it was apparent that there was the might of batting and cool captaincy. Zaheer was indeed the leading wicket taker, but India
Recently in a domestic match, the red cherry kicked lots of dust, bounced from the soil and went past the batsman – Niraj Patel – the bowler stared at and the batsman smiled back in approval – something unimaginable had happened !!
There certainly is overdose of Cricket but the victory in WC would do more good and reap in more money for the IPL. Here players won’t complain of fatigue or mental depression. There could different loyalty bases sans the geographical borders – there sure going to be some buzz of action in the fourth edition of the popular tournament which starts today with a match involving Chennai Super Kings and Kolkatta Knight Riders. Dhoni Vs Gambhir – KKR had been through it all from glory to humiliation in the previous editions.
The 2011 IPL called IPL 4 is the fourth season of Indian Premier League started by the BCCI in 2007. The opening ceremony would kick off today at Chepauk, Chennai. The season will run from April 8th to May 28th. Different from the previous 3 editions, this season will see 10 teams battling it out – the new teams being Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers – 5 teams are captained by Indians – Dhoni, Gambhir, Sehwag, Yuvraj and Sachin ; then there is Warne, Sangakkara, Mahela, Gilchrist and Vettori. In this 10 team format, there would be 74 matches. The ten teams are divided into two groups of five.
Group A | Group B |
Kolkata Knight Riders | |
Kings XI Punjab | Royal Challengers |
Mumbai Indians | Rajastan Royals |
Pune Warriors | Chennai Super Kings |
In the group stage, each team plays 14 games: facing the other four teams in their group two times each (one home and one away game), four teams in the other group once, and the remaining team two times. Whilst every team would play the other in their group twice, they would play the team in their row in the other group twice, rest once. Thus in the above XL, teams play twice those in their column and row.
For those who are keen on some history, IPL [Indian Premier League] is a professional league for T20 initiated by BCCI
In the first edition in 2008, there were 59 matches. The 8 teams played each other twice. RR defeated CSK in a last ball thriller. The 2009 season coincided with general elections in India
Now coming to the dust at the first para, it was Varun Aaron from Jharkhand who bowled probably the fastest ball in Indian cricket, sadly infront of no spectators at all. It was in the Vijay Hazare Trophy final between Jharkhand and Gujarat with people engrossed in WC, the 21-year-old tear-away quick bowled a delivery at 153 kmph.
Varun Raymond Aaron, right-arm medium-fast bowler hails from Jamshedpur Jammu and Kashmir
In 2008 he along with Shrikant Bhaskar Wagh of MRF Pace foundation, represented Australian Institute of Sport team in the fourth year of the Emerging Players Tournament. In the recent Deodhar against a strong WZ he took 5 for 47.
May be we see more of him and such new players emerging in the IPL in the years to come which augurs well to Indian Cricket. Meantime, some teams could struggle to have the final eleven, as they made some illogical picks in the auction, despite the fact that they could have only 4 overseas players in the final playing eleven.
Regards – S. Sampathkumar.
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