The annual ‘Indian Premier League Cricket Tamasha’ will commence
from tomorrow. It will go on until 27th May 2012. And during these 54 days of
Twenty20 cricket, 76 matches will be played in various cities of the country.
There are 9 teams participating in the tournament, all teams sponsored by some
bigwigs. They seem to be representing some provinces in the country but have
very few players from the province but more from all India and international participation.
And in each season these players keep jumping from one team to another based on
whoever pays them better or buys them for more money. This form of cricket is
very little cricket and more of Tamasha, every throw has to be hit as in
Baseball and Gilli Danda or as one chooses. In contrast to the dignified white dress
the cricket players have worn for generations, in these matches the players
wear colorful dresses which make them look like jokers. But they are no jokers,
because they earn fortunes in these few weeks and make grounds for getting sold
for a much bigger price in the next season. To add to this Tamasha are the
cheer girls dancing to loud music and the crazy and noisy cricket fans who are
never tired of cricket in whichever form and between whomsoever it is played
and for whatever purpose!
In the last four seasons I have watched a few matches. Especially
the second season, IPL 2009 played in South Africa was interesting to me as our
so called local team Hyderabad Deccan Chargers have won the Championship. This
season too, I am not very excited about watching all these cricket matches. I may
occasionally see some matches briefly and if our local team Deccan Chargers are
doing well I may take some interest in the game!
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