With the baby of Lalit Modi sailing through all obstacles smoothly everyone wants to rake in the moolah. It seems too good to be true for some of the junior players getting to showcase their talents and also getting handsomely paid for it with the prospects of making a name and more money in future.
O Boy! what a moneyspinner it has turned out to be. Marrying off the two main Indian entertainment business segments. Hats off to Lalit Modi. Bollywood and cricket have been long eyeing each other, albeit shyly, Lalit Modi turned out to be the matchmaker and its a win-win situation for all three.
But every success story in India has their own masala and IPL specifically IPL 2 is no different. SRK, KKR, KR, Ganguly, FakeIPLPlayer, Real FakeIPL Player and Fake FakeIPL Player....you name it it is there.....
SRK probably did not think while doing Chak De India that he may have to live out the role of Kabir Khan in real life. But it seems he is headed that way with him being blamed for bringing in Pakistani players and all his planned out strategies falling flat. KKR has lost 2 of their 3 matches played so far, SRK supporting coach Buchanan's theory of multiple captaincy and taking on mighty greats of Indian cricket like Gavaskar and finally stripping controversies' child of Indian Cricket Sourav Ganguly unceremoniously of his Captaincy of KKR are all mounting against him. With both his home-team supporter and home-state supporters gunning for his misadventurous decisions I feel I see the face of Kabir Khan of Chak De India in him. Can he take the pressure now? Lets hope so. IPL is relatively a new concept and decisions may fall flat and the best step in such situations is to learn from the mistakes. Criticism, passion are all part of the game and he has to face them. But one shortcoming he has to tackle is his PR strategy. Sacking of Ganguly from Captaincy was uncalled for and at minimum what he could have done was to take people into confidence before going to S Africa for the matches. The entire episode has been handled very shabbily. Buck up Mr. Khan. Being the owner of a car is not enough, you also should know how to drive it.
One cannot help but feel for Dada. This man has shown grit and determination in the face of all odds. People hate him, people are crazy for him, people do not care a shit for him....he has to face all three kinds. Decisions going against him, fate going against him, yet he is there the next time when opportunity comes fighting to regain the lost ground, fighting to redeem himself. He has been blamed for failure, he has been blamed for politics he has been blamed as a selfish player....well my take on all this is one point: the only way to escape blame is to shirk all responsibility. Even Mr. Tendulkar found it difficult to balance both performance and captaincy and had to forego the latter in order to keep the former. Ganguly maybe a slow cricketer, he may have found it difficult to negotitate fast bowlers in the past but one cannot deny that he is the one who galvanised the famous paper tigers into a strong cohesive unit willing to go for the kill. Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Sehwag all have something to thank this man. People who know him from close quarters know what passion and fighting spirit this man carries along effortlessly. This Maharajah or maybe the Royal Bengal Tiger is still fighting odds without blinking an eyelid, still leading his team from background, still trying to generate commitment among team members. One cannot help but feel for Dada.
More on another find of IPL2 the FakeIPL Player in my next post. Stay tuned.
O Boy! what a moneyspinner it has turned out to be. Marrying off the two main Indian entertainment business segments. Hats off to Lalit Modi. Bollywood and cricket have been long eyeing each other, albeit shyly, Lalit Modi turned out to be the matchmaker and its a win-win situation for all three.
But every success story in India has their own masala and IPL specifically IPL 2 is no different. SRK, KKR, KR, Ganguly, FakeIPLPlayer, Real FakeIPL Player and Fake FakeIPL Player....you name it it is there.....
SRK probably did not think while doing Chak De India that he may have to live out the role of Kabir Khan in real life. But it seems he is headed that way with him being blamed for bringing in Pakistani players and all his planned out strategies falling flat. KKR has lost 2 of their 3 matches played so far, SRK supporting coach Buchanan's theory of multiple captaincy and taking on mighty greats of Indian cricket like Gavaskar and finally stripping controversies' child of Indian Cricket Sourav Ganguly unceremoniously of his Captaincy of KKR are all mounting against him. With both his home-team supporter and home-state supporters gunning for his misadventurous decisions I feel I see the face of Kabir Khan of Chak De India in him. Can he take the pressure now? Lets hope so. IPL is relatively a new concept and decisions may fall flat and the best step in such situations is to learn from the mistakes. Criticism, passion are all part of the game and he has to face them. But one shortcoming he has to tackle is his PR strategy. Sacking of Ganguly from Captaincy was uncalled for and at minimum what he could have done was to take people into confidence before going to S Africa for the matches. The entire episode has been handled very shabbily. Buck up Mr. Khan. Being the owner of a car is not enough, you also should know how to drive it.
One cannot help but feel for Dada. This man has shown grit and determination in the face of all odds. People hate him, people are crazy for him, people do not care a shit for him....he has to face all three kinds. Decisions going against him, fate going against him, yet he is there the next time when opportunity comes fighting to regain the lost ground, fighting to redeem himself. He has been blamed for failure, he has been blamed for politics he has been blamed as a selfish player....well my take on all this is one point: the only way to escape blame is to shirk all responsibility. Even Mr. Tendulkar found it difficult to balance both performance and captaincy and had to forego the latter in order to keep the former. Ganguly maybe a slow cricketer, he may have found it difficult to negotitate fast bowlers in the past but one cannot deny that he is the one who galvanised the famous paper tigers into a strong cohesive unit willing to go for the kill. Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Sehwag all have something to thank this man. People who know him from close quarters know what passion and fighting spirit this man carries along effortlessly. This Maharajah or maybe the Royal Bengal Tiger is still fighting odds without blinking an eyelid, still leading his team from background, still trying to generate commitment among team members. One cannot help but feel for Dada.
More on another find of IPL2 the FakeIPL Player in my next post. Stay tuned.
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