So at last IPL2 is on the way. There has been lot of brouhaha in the media, and you had a feeling that Cricket is taking a back seat. You read about the Transfer windows, Captaincy issues, Security Issues in India, venue change and amount of money it will generate but not cricket. Thankfully for the next month and a half it will be cricket, at least I hope so.
The first 2 Matches were played in Cape Town and we see quite a few exceptio
ns to the 20/20 rules which were being put forward. Lots if ink has flowed after the advent of 20/20, as to how this format is different from Test and One day Cricket. You have to be fit (true for all sports including chess as one Vishwanathan Anand would vouch) and young and have special skills. You have to think fast and act faster or else you would blink and you would miss. We heard some lone voices trying to say that it is ultimately Cricket after all and the rules are simple. Bat to score the maximum runs and Bowl your opposition out, only to be ridiculed by the huge mass of 20/20 experts.
So what do we see in the first 2 matches of IPL2?
One Mr. Sachin Tendulkar Age 36 plays a solid innings of 59 n
ot out to hold his team together. In the second match Rahul Dravid Age 36 playes a match winning innings of 66. Anil Kumble age 38 takes 5 for 5 to clean up Rajasthan Royals. Shane Warne didn't do too badly at all. The question to ask is, isn't Rahul Dravid not the person who was unceremoniously kicked out from his captaincy post and ridiculed for his player selection last year? Isn't he unfit for 20/20? If the teams didn't have a cap on number of foreign players, would he find a place in the team? Isn't Anil Kumble the smae bowler who doesn't even fit the scheme of things in the 50 Over format? It is ultimately talent which counts and age cannot be the only criteria for selection. May be Mr. John Buchanan will have an answer, but unfortunately his cricketing talent was not that great.
None of the teams who played today have a Management Guru for a Coach, like the Kolkata team. But it didn't stop Mumbai Indians from winning, and they have Shaun Pollock as their mentor and Sachin Tendulkar as their captain. Who needs the Management Guru's who will have numerous strategies, diagrams, theories and contingency plans to tell players what they need to do when they are on the field, if they have Sachin and Shaun to guide them. Buchanan is not inventing the wheel here, probably Shahrukh Khan will learn it the hard way this time.
This is just the start of the tournament. Let us see what we learn from this tournament. Do we see that 20/20 is just Cricket after all and all you need is to simply score runs, take wickets and field well, as true in the longer formats. Or whether it is something different, and you need the complex minds of a Mr. Buchanan to dissect it and explain to us so that we lesser mortals can understand.
The first 2 Matches were played in Cape Town and we see quite a few exceptio
ns to the 20/20 rules which were being put forward. Lots if ink has flowed after the advent of 20/20, as to how this format is different from Test and One day Cricket. You have to be fit (true for all sports including chess as one Vishwanathan Anand would vouch) and young and have special skills. You have to think fast and act faster or else you would blink and you would miss. We heard some lone voices trying to say that it is ultimately Cricket after all and the rules are simple. Bat to score the maximum runs and Bowl your opposition out, only to be ridiculed by the huge mass of 20/20 experts.So what do we see in the first 2 matches of IPL2?
One Mr. Sachin Tendulkar Age 36 plays a solid innings of 59 n
ot out to hold his team together. In the second match Rahul Dravid Age 36 playes a match winning innings of 66. Anil Kumble age 38 takes 5 for 5 to clean up Rajasthan Royals. Shane Warne didn't do too badly at all. The question to ask is, isn't Rahul Dravid not the person who was unceremoniously kicked out from his captaincy post and ridiculed for his player selection last year? Isn't he unfit for 20/20? If the teams didn't have a cap on number of foreign players, would he find a place in the team? Isn't Anil Kumble the smae bowler who doesn't even fit the scheme of things in the 50 Over format? It is ultimately talent which counts and age cannot be the only criteria for selection. May be Mr. John Buchanan will have an answer, but unfortunately his cricketing talent was not that great.None of the teams who played today have a Management Guru for a Coach, like the Kolkata team. But it didn't stop Mumbai Indians from winning, and they have Shaun Pollock as their mentor and Sachin Tendulkar as their captain. Who needs the Management Guru's who will have numerous strategies, diagrams, theories and contingency plans to tell players what they need to do when they are on the field, if they have Sachin and Shaun to guide them. Buchanan is not inventing the wheel here, probably Shahrukh Khan will learn it the hard way this time.
This is just the start of the tournament. Let us see what we learn from this tournament. Do we see that 20/20 is just Cricket after all and all you need is to simply score runs, take wickets and field well, as true in the longer formats. Or whether it is something different, and you need the complex minds of a Mr. Buchanan to dissect it and explain to us so that we lesser mortals can understand.
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