IPL- Good Entertainment Prospect

Indian Premier League is making sensation all as auctioning of players are over. Concept is similar like English Premier League of Football or NBA. Humongous money has been lavishly dished out to players around the world. It shows how much money is flowing in Indian Air. Sometimes I think why then so many poors in this country, why those many illiterates & why most of the cities are failing to provide required infrastructure to common man round the year. Money is not getting routed through proper channels. Most of us will agree, this is because of uneven distribution of money but who cares. Coming back to IPL & its prospect in India. I find its good thing happening not only to Cricket but by an large to sports with Indian context. Its very good prospect as an entertainment, now we can go to watch 4 hours fun in a ground, sipping some mugs of beer, of course if they allow it. IPL will be successful in bringing in people to the stadium, anyway that is never a problem to fill up the stadium for cricket in India. I will be happy if Mom's & Mother in law's cut the crap of watching daily soaps & come to watch matches.
I wonder though whether it can increase the sentiment of public by an inch for the teams which are city teams when public sentiment always beats for the national team i.e Indian Cricket Team. We always wanted Indian team to win but this league will demand city based loyalty that is something difficult to inculcate in masses. If you bring even Mallika Sherawat to dance on Maiya Maiya before the match & Bipasha Basu to do Beedi Jalaile with winning team still it cannot generate that extra sentiment for localised matches like these. Yes, entertainment factor for spectators & even for T.V audience will be bubbling with high for sure after watching those girls dancing.

Biggest beneficiaries are cricket players & that too new joinies to international cricket like Ishant Sharma & Rohit Sharma. Lot of money has been spent to buy them. I think Boycott must be saying- My Mom also should join IPL, she can even smash sixes with a stick of rubab.

Our Oneday & T20 captain M.S Dhoni is the costliest player with 6 crores & he deserves to get that top value after all he was the captain of winning World T20 side & he seems to be a shrewd brain & street smart cricketer too. Seems a definite horse for a longer race. Good that an Indian has been bought with highest price though I believe biddings are too highly done just like Reliance Power IPO was too highly priced. Symmonds is 2nd with 5.4 crores deserves to be 2nd as he can be devastating T20 batsman. I feel Bhajji also agrees to it. Anyway bhajji will also get decent money.

One more interesting part can happen if the owners of the respective teams floats some shares to stock listings. That provision is there in IPL. That could be a happening stuff like buying some shares of Sourav's Kolkata or buying Sachin's Mumbai.

I look IPL as a good entertainment prospect for weekend. Real cricket is Test Cricket though. Skills & techniques & other critical aspects of cricket can be best watched in Test Cricket. Even 50 overs onedayers requires skills & adds the thrill. No doubt T20 also requires skills but it is more like Tukka & aara patta cricket even mediocre players have some chance there.

Strongly believes that some new & different things should always keep on happening. IPL may help in globalization of cricket too which is lacking presently. So I support IPL in a broader sense except the amount of money flown around. Wishing IPL to be a grand Success.