What To Say?

‘It’s been a long time since my last post. What do I post this time?’, were the thoughts that ran through my mind as I sat down to watch the IPL match between the Delhi Daredevils and the Kolkata Knight Riders. Then as if a lightening struck my head the idea struck ‘Of course! The IPL that will be my topic’. And so this blog was born….

There are different types of IPL viewers. The ones who watch for the cricket, for the corporate, for their sport icons, for their favorite team, and why forget, for the cheerleaders. I watch it for my favorite team, the Chennai Superkings. The only reason is that I reside in Chennai. Other than them I also like Rajasthan royals for the superb captain they have and of course the Knight Riders simply for the reason that I like their owner Shah Rukh Khan. And my pity definitely goes for the Bangalore team, Royal Challengers. Well their team makes a great test team but, T20 is something they cannot expert at. The team has the best choice of talents like Kallis, Praveen, Dravid, White, Boucher and many more, these are just a few that struck me at this second. Well in a sentence, ‘a bad collection of great talents’ is what I can say.

I was so interested in the whole IPL thing that I went on to search the youtube for team anthems. That’s when I realized that IPL has a great reach among people. Well the incident goes this way; I was seeing the Chennai team anthem while I found the video of Chennai superstars and Kolkata tigers. ‘they made a mistake maybe’ I thought and went there to see the video. It was no mistake; it was in fact the ICL tournament. I found out with the news below that it happened during the tour of Australia (the whole Bhajji Hayden thing said it!). I found cheerleaders, with a similarly short costume cheering their teams. Well, all the hype about the same issue in IPL came in the news but not the ICL. That’s when reality faced me; IPL has an insanely higher viewer’s crowd than ICL.

And coming back to the teams, I would like to express my opinion about the Bangalore one, Or should I say the pitiful Bangalore one! As said before it’s a bad collection of great talents. Charu Sharma and Vijay Malaya must have talked through all this before the auctions and Dravid must have helped them out. But unfortunately the story is different here. So as a price for their ignorance they have to win the eighth place on the standings. I see no other way. But maybe they can find their way out of this mess and make it to the semis. Let’s see what magic they can do. All their fans and some pitying viewers can do is wish them luck.

Now coming back to the Chennai team, this is how I would put their graph high to very high to very low to high again. And it just took the team some time to recover the loss of those three people, Hayden Hussey and Oram, that’s what took them three matches. That’s not a long time in my opinion but still they could’ve at all probabilities realized this before. But after all, the team had survived the series with their unconquerable help. But Dhoni had to recover so this new batting line up. Works for the team so three cheers for Dhoni! And their anthem, sung by Suchitra, Benny and a lot more, is basically in Tamil. I first heard to it in the radio and soon found it on TV. But the thing is, most of the team itself doesn’t understand it so how….? Never mind! Music speaks for itself doesn’t it?

Now talking about the team pushes me to talk about its players. Let’s see Balaji seems to be finding his way back into the international team. And players like Badrinath, Vidyut et cetera are paving their way into the international team. And how do I forget Murli’s spin, Gony’s wickets and Morkel’s sixes? Coming back to the three departed players is unnecessary. The other unmentioned players have also been very good at the tournament. So this leaves us with just one player, the captain Dhoni. Well he did good captaincy and nice wicket keeping and of course great thinking with doing away with the players who are not in form. All praise for that.

Now for the period in the Chennai's graph where the team was loosing, I found many reasons for that, the players departing, the unlucky anchoring of Samir Kochhar, the not so dependable batting order and many more. But I stuck on to the anchoring. Every match I want the anchor Shiv or Ajay Jadeja to come back. Never happened but the team finally proved in their match against Delhi Daredevils that they can win over luck by putting in some head into it. Cheers team for that! And during that time period Dhoni coming at any commercials on TV was a sight of disgust to me. The new Sonata watch ad where in Tamil he had rendered a few lines in Tamil was the most irritating in the list after the boost ad where they depicted a beautiful word of English language as a devilish thing that pulled back people from achieving success and his lines were the most irritating when they had lost those matches. And leaving us to the third and the final place is the Pepsi ad. Wherein he ‘thinks’ himself to be a Chennai person. But frankly it reminds me nothing of a Chennai person. The ad maker must have gone through Chennai life for some more time before they decided upon this. Never mind, it’s too late now! But now I lost the irritation that was caused, the team is after all back on the right track.

So that’s all I want to say right now about IPL maybe after the tournament is over I will have something more to say about it. But till then there’s going to be more blogs there. I will greet you again with another exciting (I guess it is, isn’t it?) blog of mine,

Until next time,

Yours,

Arthi Appathurai......