1. Rise of Kumble as one of the three best captains the other two being MS and Shane, and ofcourse rise of Sachin as the worst captain:. The age old adage, think like MS or think like Warne, is now modified to think like MS or like Warne or like Kumble, but never like Sachin
2. Clash of the legends, Sizzling Sachin vs Magician Warne
3. Manish Pandey, the wall of the making
4. Siva Mani
5. Dravid's fearless and confident batting style
6. Gilly's 50 from, guess what- 17
7. Kumble's 5/5 and Murali's 2/8 (against Punjab)
8. The fall of Bollywood and associated teams - with Katrina as an exception, and the rise of South India and Gult patronised teams ! (in your face- all you gult haters)
9. The fake IPL and Appam Chutiya
10. The jinxed Kolkata roaring towards the end
11. Dwayne Smith's half century during whose innings DC almost seemed like winning the match against CSK (DC lost by 70+ runs)
12. The cheer leaders
13. Introduction of the super over, and Yousuf Pathan's cameos
14. Haydos performance in almost every match
15. Peter ka beta's utter failure (Schedenfraude here!)
16. Mandira Bedi and Ramiz Raja consistantly proving their incompetance for their jobs
17. The narmad third wing's 'fantasy IPL' craze
18. Entertainment during those looong days of thesis writing
19. Giving me a topic for a come back post
20. Last but not the least, emerging as a phenomena for cutting off all those boring ManU vs Liverpool/ Chelsea vs Barca discussions. When somebody starts the footer talk, one can very adeptly change the course of the discussion by introducing IPL ( told out of experience)
Looking forward for the grand finale!
2 comments:
Next year its KKR. mark my words.
@Sayan: Very much possible. Looking at the current trend of teams ending up last in IPL n, winning it in IPL n+1
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