SRI'S Blog

One did not expect the Indian Cricket team to dominate as they did in the recent Champions trophy. They won all their matches including the warm up games and outclassed their opponents with ease to be crowned as the undisputed” One day Champions”. I did expect the team to do so well ,( taking their IPL forms in to the tournament) but did not expect this kind of a dominance. The team played with assurance in all areas of the game – fielding being outstanding and at times turning the game on its head in India ‘s favour ( Jaddu’s run out Petersen against South Africa is a good example ), batting ( the only team to score 300runs in one of the games ) and bowling departments. Ably led by the ever cool MSD Some good reasons as to why India did well : Major change in the composition of the team as compared to the one that won the world Cup ( No Sachin , Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvi , Zaheer , Munaf , Harbhajan and Dhoni’s lucky mascot Sreesanth It was a young , fit Indian team – Jadeja , Ro

There is no doubt that IPL ( Indian Premier League ) is a great success. Lalit Modi’s creation was excellent money spinner so long as the sport was played as sport. As soon as other things other than the sport itself started taking centre stage , it was clear that there would be only “dirt” and nothing else to talk about. A very classic case where a great event that brought in crowds , provided a stage for young players to blossom , created avenues for various business to grow is now languishing because of the greed to make quick money in not being ethical to the sport itself. There were simmering’s from the previous editions of the IPL itself. Spot fixing is nothing new. Some low rung players involvement , they being banned , change in the chairmanship post of IPL, did nothing effectively to keep the sport being played in its best interest. It is surprising that the IPL committee had no clue of what was going on. All things that happened in the past two weeks cannot have come about