Indian Premier League          

        Was it a blessing or a curse?

The so much hyped Indian Premier League thus finished yesterday with Rajasthan Royals The Real Under dogs finished as the champions. What did India gain out of this tournament? If this was an India Pak match, at least we could have talked about SOME FORM OF PATRIOTISM ;-) But in this case, nothing to be proud of.. A sheer wastage of several laks of productive human hours. It lasted for 45 days. Each day a minimum of 3 hrs. Suppose if an average person is watching at least 1 hour daily (Of course it will be much more than that). If we are taking the minimum amount of time, 1 hour each... then also we are losing 45 hrs which is almost a week’s effort as per the Industry standards. So this much amount of time wasted by many crores of Indian population. All those players earned big money, what we
earned?

Even I went to watch a match at Chinnaswami stadium, Bangalore. That was a match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Delhi Dare Devils. We got the corporate ticket through my office. Here in my office, they are spending money like anything for cricket. All the upper management staff are mad about this game. So what they did was they bought 40 tickets for all the games played in Bangalore and Chennai. Selection of these 2 places is based on the fact that we are having offices in India at these two places only. Tickets I believe at least some 2000 rupees. Seats were quite near to the pavilion and just behind Cheer leaders ;-). Here we have to consider another important factor, Bangalore cheer leaders were the most charming girls… Vijay Mallya is having more than enough money and he is spending that for the use of common man. Ha ha...

I wasted almost 6-7 hrs for that match. I had to leave office early that day. Thanks to the hectic traffic in Bangalore. Reached back home after 12 O’ clock in the night. Actually with that ticket, food and drinks were there. We were able in utilizing only drinks. Mallya promoting his own drinks J
After Bangalore’s innings we went and stand in the queue for food. It was such a drastic experience as we didn’t see Sewag’s batting and after long time in the queue, they announced that happy news.. FOOD GOT OVER…

Initially we had option of taking either match with Delhi or Mumbai. We opted for Delhi’s match because that time both Mumbai and Bangalore were not performing well. But later I realized I could have opted for Mumbai’s match as we could have a glance of Sachin Tendulkar, Jayasurya and Pollock.

Saw a news in a newspaper saying Dhoni made 1.5 laks for each run he scored in this IPL. At the same time, Shown Marsh who made the maximum runs in the tournament got only 1500 rupees for each run he scored. Ishant Sharma was purely disappointing.

But regarding Ganguly, who was the only captain with 2 man of the matches, came 10^th in the total runs scored list was impressive in this format also. But it is sheer badness in removing him from
the Indian team.

                    So what I feel is it was a sheer wastage of money and time!!!