Hello all,
Its the time of the year where some section of people start hating
Modi. Wait for a second, let me finish its not about
Namo, but
Lamo.
The IPL season is upon us and its just getting uncontrollable. For everywhere there is IPL craze. All dailies have a page set out for the IPL happenings.
Looking back, one can realize that what was the dream of
Lalit Modi way back in 2007, has become phenomenal now and now has become a imagination sadly to him.
IPL is all about entertainment, and you never know when someone makes a comeback into the arena again, like most of the retired players do. Interesting part is even retired umpires are part of IPL, so may be in future it can be changed as
Indian Retired League, not just for players even for Umpires.As by default all commentators who give their expert opinion are anyways retired or dropped.
So similarly, some day or the other even
Lalit Modi can make a comeback and revolutionize Cricket, as he claims that he has done that.
If there was no match on that day which was interesting, never mind cook up some stats like
The dullest match in the history of IPL 2013, the match where even Sreesanth remained silent.
IPL is entertainment, and if you are not making the top news, you should atleast entertain people. Thats where Sreesanth is top at, he was not even part of the playing eleven, but he reopened up on Slapgate issue, why nobody in the right sense of mind can get it.
May be, when he got slapped he got special treatment from
Priety Zinta, the owner of the
Kings Eleven Punjab Franchise, and now he wants some attention from
Shilpa Shetty, the owner of
Rajasthan Royals, in which he is a part of.
With IPL, you can expect the unexpected. The odds are high that you can even understand the physics or dynamics or gravitational effect on Salman Khan or Akshay Kumar fight sequences, when compared to one understanding IPL.
For instance, when elections clashed with IPL's schedule, IPL matches was shifted from India to South Africa. Many people were of the opinion that elections should be rescheduled due to IPL, and many even went on to say that the team which wins the trophy should choose the PM.
May be they felt that, by this way atleast some people had control over the election process of PM, as we have a PM who was actually not elected by the public.
See the power of IPL, I have filled up half of my column without even mentioning a single match instance, that's entertainment.
The thing about IPL is nothing, it will go down in the history books as something which was never clear.When a particular team wins, they claim it as Match Fixing,when some other team wins its due to a single man, when some other team wins its due to fluctuations in Gold price, or effect of a temple nearby the ground.
If you can make out a pattern out of it, and get the logic out of it, and stop all the twitter battles, you will be recommended for
Noble Price for Peace.
Coming to the offerings in this year's edition, we have a lot of people giving their expert opinion, a set of people before the match, a set of people during the match, another set during the strategic time out, another set during the break, another set during end, another set for post match presentation. And altogether a different set in all the news channels, analyzing the 3 hour game for 24 hours until the next game starts.
Essentially, you get a feel that
There are more people commenting that there this too much of Cricket, than the number of games being played'.
Sponsors have changed this year, and some times even the commentators shout it as
'DLF Maximum' while its now '
Yes Bank maximum' . They came up with quotes like '
Citibank moment of success' , and probably they should come up with '
T Rajendar moment of entertainment ' , when the West Indians celebrate,
'Perarasu moment of Failure' when someone dares to bowl to
Sir, during death overs.
There have also been strong contenders for '
Maggi moment of the day', as so many players consistently return back to the pavilion in a couple of minutes.
Interesting part which even Perarasu would say that it defies logic is the fact that the matches are being telecast in a channel, and the rival channel is sponsoring the event, and you get to hear the rival channel's name more than the actual channel telecasting it !.
Coming to a normal household, where women control the remote control of the television
also, due to IPL, we have a '
CitiBank moment of success for men' that during IPL, women cannot watch soaps and guys watch the IPL. But nevertheless a '
Perarasu moment of failure for men' will also be in cards in the dining table, reasons obvious.
The other things which IPL will give chance to, are probably the following,
Nominations for Bravery Awards
This is to signify the bravery of film producers who release their movie during the IPL. And also to all the airlines and passengers aboard , traveling over Chinnaswamy when Gayle is batting.
Increase in comfort even in Andhra messes
This is due to the fact that guys even forget food, and even when having food we need the entertainment.
This will lead to
decrease in quality of food in hotels, as nobody bothers to notice taste.
Relaxing break for other channels
This is obvious, as no channel comes up with a new show during IPL, all the reality shows, Super Singer, Super Dancer, Super Writer, Super Sleeper, Super etc. all will have a well earned break.
New phrases for Ramiz Raja and Ravi Shastri
This is the most important of all, they are running out quotes to describe a match. For instance Ravi Shastri says '
Went like a tracer bullet' for both
Chris Gayle and Parthiv Patel.
Conflicting line of business
Apart from the well known fact that CSK is owned by
Srinivasan, a key player in BCCI, there is one more conflicting line of business which arose this year. The
Sun Group owned
Sunrisers Hyderabad, captained by a
Sri Lankan. Its probably the selling case study for MBA graduates as its same party which says
Sports and Politics should not be mixed, and protests against SriLankan players in Chennai !
And of course the
Era of Sir Ravindra Jadeja. !
In Sir we trust !
Bye til nex,
