The Reliance IPL had a grand opening this year thanks to BCCI for making it as huge success as this took Indian cricket to heights ever since 1983 world cup win.
The Calcutta Choker Kings owned by Bollywood fame Anil Kapoor who was confident that the team had a right mix of players like Navjot singh sidhu (Captain), Martin Crowe, Manoj Prabhakar, Wasim Akram etc., with young talents like Ajay Jadeja and Vinod Kambli. However, the team failed to progress after a stunning opening match win against Madras Murderers led by Kapil dev. Anil Kapoor criticized Navjot Singh’s captaincy by suggesting he could rather take up some laughter challenge show as he spotted Sidhu making fun of other teams losses instead concentrating on his job. Calcutta apparently, lost 6 matches in a row out of 7 matches and Anil kapoor is confident they will come back with a bang in next IPL.
On the contrary, Madras Murderers made a poor start with a shocking loss to Calcutta failing to chase the mammoth total of 100/7 posted by Calcutta at the end of 20 overs. Opener Srikanth tried hard by hitting a six with opening ball and a 4 in the following over but very expectedly, got out with a simple catch to the slip. Martin crowe later joined Kiran More to achieve this improbable target but eventually the Madras ended up with 67 all out in 19.2 overs. It was a steady raise after that for Madras murders but only finished fifth in the points table before semi finals. The local star L Sivaramakrishnan was show stealer with his consistent performance
The Hyderabad Himalayan Blunders was never in the contest with series of defeats right from the beginning. The captain Sunil Valson who condemned the franchise owners ‘Zandu balm’ as a bunch of useless management team and the team selection was never right. He however mentioned the under 19 local talent named Mohammed Azharuddin is extremely tolerant in extreme situations showing no emotions for anything and could be right captain in future.
Semifinals :
The first semifinals were between Banglore Backpackers Vs. Bombay Beeda Eaters. The Banglore captain Syed Kirmani led his side to a tight contest. Batting first, the backpackers scored a modest 80 / 8 in 20 overs with Duncan Fletcher scoring an impressive 23 of 26 balls. With easy task on hand, the beeda eaters started well with the openers Allan border and Mohinder amaranth almost scoring run a ball in first 3 overs and then both lost their wickets to Backpackers young strike bowler Anil kumble. Eventually Kumble took 6 wickets in 3.2 overs and got MOM match award. The Beeda eating losing captain Ravi Shastri seriously stated ‘It was an event ful day and the team was confused if this kid (Kumble) is a spinner or pace bowler and no excuse we played poor’
The second semi finals were between Kerala Lungi Masters Vs. Delhi Dum Maaro Dums. The Kerala team owned by Appu kuttan Textiles (Lungi manufactururers) was the only team with out any local talent but still gave a tough fight to the mighty Delhi but the Dummers smoked the lungi and eventually burnt them out of tournament. The Lungi master captain Roger Binny mentioned he is proud of being here and mentioned they are no match to Delhi’s Clive Lloyd who was dominating with both bat and ball.
Finals :
The finals was called off as it was scheduled in Madras and shockingly no one turned up to watch the match as that was the day Super stars Rajnikanths ‘PANAKARAN’ movie was released and all were queued up in Cinemas and proved IPL carries no priority to this Demi god of Tamil Nadu. Clive Lloyd was shocked and frusturated initially but spotted in the night show of Rajnikanths movie 2 days later. Apparently, the trophy is shared between Banglore and Delhi.
On the contrary, Madras Murderers made a poor start with a shocking loss to Calcutta failing to chase the mammoth total of 100/7 posted by Calcutta at the end of 20 overs. Opener Srikanth tried hard by hitting a six with opening ball and a 4 in the following over but very expectedly, got out with a simple catch to the slip. Martin crowe later joined Kiran More to achieve this improbable target but eventually the Madras ended up with 67 all out in 19.2 overs. It was a steady raise after that for Madras murders but only finished fifth in the points table before semi finals. The local star L Sivaramakrishnan was show stealer with his consistent performance
The Hyderabad Himalayan Blunders was never in the contest with series of defeats right from the beginning. The captain Sunil Valson who condemned the franchise owners ‘Zandu balm’ as a bunch of useless management team and the team selection was never right. He however mentioned the under 19 local talent named Mohammed Azharuddin is extremely tolerant in extreme situations showing no emotions for anything and could be right captain in future.
Semifinals :
The first semifinals were between Banglore Backpackers Vs. Bombay Beeda Eaters. The Banglore captain Syed Kirmani led his side to a tight contest. Batting first, the backpackers scored a modest 80 / 8 in 20 overs with Duncan Fletcher scoring an impressive 23 of 26 balls. With easy task on hand, the beeda eaters started well with the openers Allan border and Mohinder amaranth almost scoring run a ball in first 3 overs and then both lost their wickets to Backpackers young strike bowler Anil kumble. Eventually Kumble took 6 wickets in 3.2 overs and got MOM match award. The Beeda eating losing captain Ravi Shastri seriously stated ‘It was an event ful day and the team was confused if this kid (Kumble) is a spinner or pace bowler and no excuse we played poor’
The second semi finals were between Kerala Lungi Masters Vs. Delhi Dum Maaro Dums. The Kerala team owned by Appu kuttan Textiles (Lungi manufactururers) was the only team with out any local talent but still gave a tough fight to the mighty Delhi but the Dummers smoked the lungi and eventually burnt them out of tournament. The Lungi master captain Roger Binny mentioned he is proud of being here and mentioned they are no match to Delhi’s Clive Lloyd who was dominating with both bat and ball.
Finals :
The finals was called off as it was scheduled in Madras and shockingly no one turned up to watch the match as that was the day Super stars Rajnikanths ‘PANAKARAN’ movie was released and all were queued up in Cinemas and proved IPL carries no priority to this Demi god of Tamil Nadu. Clive Lloyd was shocked and frusturated initially but spotted in the night show of Rajnikanths movie 2 days later. Apparently, the trophy is shared between Banglore and Delhi.
