IPL is a Hit ?

I should say IPL is a worth watching and almost a hit ! :) When its plan was just in papers i planned not to watch any of the matches , since its just fud with ICL .

When the team bidding and auction for players started i looked at the big sum of money the franchise owners are spending to buy humans , making BCCI to overtake ECB as the richest national board easily . When business tycoons the likes of Mukesh , Mallya fighted for their teams it maded me to think IPL is not about cricket , Its about Money ,Its about Business , Its about a gateway ,I should say its a license for your company to advertise easily and reach millions of people . So IPL is a fud with ICL . ICL is gud but sadly theres is no takers for it.Ok this not IPL vs ICL blog.

Does IPL is a hit??

playing for their team ! I This is INDIA and here Cricket is a religion , Here people will hate Aussies when they sledge Indians , How ever in IPL things went down under every one to proud since they got Hayden and Hussey , symonds and Gilly in their team I couldnt accept it still , Even the aussie captain pointing , is now a teammate with Ishant the young gun for knight Riders .

Then the positives came , so as my mind changed to watch it :)

The one rule i like in IPL the most is that 4+8 combination 4 foreign players + 8 Indian domestic players. This will give lot of spaces for domestic players to perform and well of course to earn. How long they will waste their careers waiting waiting to get selected in national team?

Will give the youngsters to play with the talents so that they can , watch , learn and perform.

Even international players can perform well with little pressure in their mind . Example Brendon Mccullum and his 158*

International performers can make the youngsters to learn , watched Pointing advising Ishant ? He ran from Gully to mid on ... to have a word with Ishant ..

OK all set . I planned to watch IPL still cricketing had not lost with the business . But then came the real confusion which team should i support ? Chennai SuperKings since i belongs to TamilNadu or Mumbai Indians since Cricketing God is leading that team , or the Delhi Dare Devils since Mr.Pigeon is playing .

What about other team? I like players and not the team and their captions specially The Prince of Kolkata ,ask him to play a Hook shot then i will accept him as a batsman, Players i love to watch playing and still cant support their team includes Ishant sharma ,Yuvi, King of Spin warne , Gilly,Kallis, Boucher, Lee and this list continues ..

So left unsupported any team and I am like a boat with out its ruder and rider as well. Yesterday match between Chennai SuperKings vs Mumbai Indians changed this decision to support for the Chennai Superkings , since Sachin is not playing ,So I can still support chennai superkings.

The match was fanatastic it showed the talenting youngster we had Badrinath, ABNayar,Gony who have not yet performed in the national side.

When uthappa came to the crease , i got confident that he will make the match even thriller , since i am watching this guy from the emerging India A team to his ODI debut.And atlastABNayar , Bhaji made the match worth watching and made it a perfect thriller. What still IPL or Chennai super kings is missing is Young Domestic players . When IPL supports such a domestic players its good for cricket , its good for BCCI .

Heres the score card ,

SCORE-BOARD

Chennai Super Kings innings:

Parthiv Patel c Ronchi b Nehra 14 (11b, 3 x 4)
Matthew Hayden (run out – Harbhajan) 81 (46b, 2 x 6, 12 x 4)
Mike Hussey b Kulkarni 5 (9b, 1 x 4)
Suresh Raina c Bravo b Kote 53 (37b, 3 x 6, 3 x 4)
M S Dhoni c Bravo b Kote 30 (16b, 4 x 4, 1 x 6)
Jacob Oram (not out) 5 (2b 1 x 4)
S Badrinath (not out) 2 (1b)

Extras (b4, lb3, w9, 2nb) :18

Total (for 5 wkts, 20 overs): 208.

Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Patel, 3.1), 2-39 (Hussey, 4.4), 3-143 (Raina, 14.6), 4-194 (Hayden, 19.6), 5-206 (Dhoni, 19.5)

Bowling: Shaun Pollock 3-0-32-0 (1w); Ashish Nehra 4-0-35-1 (2w, 1nb); Dhawal Kulkarni 3-0-25-1 (1nb); Harbhajan Singh 2-0-14-0; Dwayne Bravo 3-0-36-0 (1w); Vikrant Yelligetti 1-0-16-0 (5w); Abhishek Nayar 1-0-14-0; Musavir Kote 3-0-29-2.

Mumbai Indians innings:

Luke Ronchi (run out – Badrinath) 2 (3b)
Sanath Jayasuriya c Joginder b Gony 20 (11b, 4 x 4)
Robin Uthappa b Joginder 43 (36b, 1 x 6, 6 x 4)
Shaun Pollock b Amarnath 17 (15b, 1 x 6)
Dwayne Bravo c Oram b Joginder 24 (16b, 1 x 6, 2 x 4)
Abhishek Nayar (not out) 45 (20b, 1 x 6, 1 x 5, 6 x 4)
Musavir Kote c Raina b Muralitharan 9 (5b, 1 x 6)
Harbhajan Singh c Badrinath b Muralitharan 28 (14b, 3 x 6, 1 x 4)
Ashish Nehra (not out) 1 (2b)

Extras (lb5, w6, nb2): 13.

Total (for 7 wkts, 20 overs): 202

Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Ronchi, 1.6), 2-30 (Jayasuriya, 3.4), 3-81 (Uthappa, 9.4), 4-97 (Pollock, 11.4), 5-130 (Bravo, 14.2), 6-141 (Kote, 15.3), 7-189 (Harbhajan, 18.5).

Bowling: Jacob Oram 4-0-53-0 (2w); Manpreet Gony 4-1-18-1 (1nb); Joginder Sharma 4-0-29-2 (1nb); Palani Amarnath 4-0-57-1; Muttiah Muralitharan 4-0-40-2 (4w).