Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Ruler- The Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals the underdogs before the start of IPL has shown their team spirit with a thoroughly professional approach to clinch the inaugural IPL title. Their hallaa bol has certainly amazed the some of the highly rated teams & choked their opponents in most of the matches. They are the deserving winners of the IPL.

The Asnodkars, Pathans, Watsons has shown that balanced approach fetch dividends. It is their shear power packed performace with bat with intelligent shot selections made them class apart of others. Yes there were other good perfomances by players of other teams like Gambhir, Abhishek Nair, Shikhar Dhawan, Goni, Solanke, Shukla etc but Rajasthan Royals have bunch of youngsters who has performed consistently. Their mentor Shane Warne was a Pied Piper. Not to forget the contribution of South African Captain Greame Smith & Pakistan gutsy wicket keeper Kamran Akmal.

Shane Warne the Captain & coach of Rajasthan Royals has shown for once & all that why he was rated so higly in Australia for his cricketing acumen apart from his spin bowling skills. Shane was in contention for captaining the baggy green cap after Steve Waughs retirement, though at the end it was his off field skills has denied him the job. He has that aura & magnetisn in The Rajasthan Royals team was prominently visible on field.

So it was the Royal spin wizard Shane Warne & his young bunch of exuberant talented cricketers ruled the roost in IPL. They are the deserving champions.

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