RAJASTHAN ROYALS DESERVING IPL CHAMPS

Rajasthan Royals held their nerve in a pressure cooker situation to seal the inaugural IPL title in the last ball before a jam packed D Y Patil Stadium in Navi mumbai on Sunday.Despite its share of controversies and the heady mix of glamour and cricket, the Indian Premier League's first edition would be best remembered for the triumph of the underdog wherein a retired spin legend inspired the cheapest franchisee of the event to title win.Rajasthan Royals grabbed victory in a very exciting final.Indian won the 20-20 final as an underdog with lot of new team members. Rajasthan Royals also do the same.

India’s newest cricket star Yousuf Pathan sparkled with both the bat and ball to guide Rajasthan Royals to a tense, final-ball triumph over Chennai Super Kings in the IPL final here on Sunday night.A galaxy of international stars might have added fizz to the IPL but it was India’s most improved domestic player who mattered most in the tense final.

Unlike in the two semi-finals, neither team held a clear advantage at the end of the first innings.The Chennai Super Kings paced their innings well, not trying anything too rash, and a collective effort took them to a fighting 163. Rajasthan Royals weren’t as dominant with the ball as they’ve usually been but Yousuf Pathan’s three strikes ensured that the game never really got away.

Warne-led Jaipur outfit chasing a competitive 164-run target got off to a solid start after the innovative Asnodkar got into the act but stuttered in the middle before Yusuf Pathan wrested the game from Super Kings with a blistering 39-ball 56. Pathan's knock left Royals with a not-so-diifficult equation of 8 runs in last over.

VIJAY MALLYA UNHAPPY WITH DRAVID AND CHARU SHARMA

Royal Challengers team owner Vijay Mallya revealing that he was at loggerheads with captain Rahul Dravid and the outfit’s sacked CEO Charu Sharma over players’ selection for the Indian Premier League.Mallya made it clear that he was not happy with the squad, currently languishing at the bottom of the IPL points table, which has been ridiculed as a Test team in Twenty20 jersey.
“I had my own list (of players) but the fact is Rahul Dravid and Charu Sharma had their own list and at the end of the day, I decided to take the back seat,” Mallya told a news channel. “I was very tempted to bid for players whom I wanted but they held me back. Obviously things have turned out differently” he said.He also said Sharma backed Dravid to the hilt and even in the second auction, where the captain was not present, the former CEO discouraged Mallya to buy players of his choice.
“I want from Rahul Dravid to do the best for the team and to produce some good results for us because I don’t think Rahul Dravid enjoys being at the bottom of the league tables, and certainly I don’t.” Mallya added.

CONTROVERSIES IN IPL

IPL seems to make headlines for all wrong reasons controversies than exciting finishes of games.The Views and News taking a look into it.



First of this kind is very unusual in our cricket that a player slapping his own counterpart , own country men in very open ground. Sreeshant could have never thought that his habit of sledging would earn him a slap from an Indian. Harbajan was obviously upset over onfield behaviour of sreeshant and decided to use his hands rather in words as reply. But his 11 match IPL ban may not seem harch enough for a crime of that nature,anyway both of them may seem convinced to each other hughing in front of media.



Next comes the Dada , Warne controversy. Warne complained on sourav that he has not played the game in right spirit and asking an on field umpire to go for third umpire after smith took the catch , also letting the Rajasthan Royals to wait in hot ground as sourav came late for play. Though KnightRiders clarified that wait is not so long to be punished that it is just 70 sec. Ganguly later raised dust to it by refering th carear of warne which has lot of controversies in it. Both of them fined 10% of their match fee.



Now its turn of politicians to target the IPL. Thoese cheer leaders dress is in talk of covering very little skin. They even warned the franchise owners to cover the skins of chear leaders following the Indian culture rather to face any action against them.With millions of rupees being spent on these girls the franchise owners surely will do a rethink about them.

ITS IPL Vs BOX OFFICE

The news is that IPL tournament has made the Chennai Box Office (CBO) dull. Collections over the Apr 18 - 20 week end that coincided with the launch of IPL took the beating. The multiplexes were marginaly affected, sathyam cinemas vice president says that the collections marginaly affected by 5 to 10 % in the wee ends and 15 to 20 % in the week days. Other theater owners also claiming that their collections down because of the IPL fever.
There is also a thought in the industry that the newness of IPL is creating craze for it and once it became boring they wear out.



Most of the Big films are planned for summer release like Kamal.s Dasavatharam, Vijay's Kuruvi, where vijay itself being the brand ambassador for Chennai Super Kings(CSK).
Most of the stars are going on a vacation abroad in may to get away from the IPL mania, they were also upset ovet vijay and nayanthara riding on IPL thunder.Vijay however says that IPL wont affect box office and a well made film will definitely do well at the box office.

Well dunno when this IPL VS Box office fight gonna end , lets wait and see
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ICC FIRED SUNIL GAVASKAR

The little master Sunil Gavaskar is going to be fired by ICC. The leading cricket expert commentator of all time has awarded the prestigious position of "Chairman of ICC cricket committee" in 28th June, 2000.He also act ac as cricket expert and commentator in ESPNSTAR network.

During the India tour to Australia series many controversies arises.Bhaji's racism row,umpire wrong decision and sledging were some of them.The second test between India and Australia in forgettable series for all the Indian fans.During this test Gavaskar made many comment about the potential of the umpire and spirit of the Australian players.His comments like"This is utter nonsense; Sorry Benson you got all wrong; Benson you should consult third umpire rather than Ponting; millions of indians want to know whether 'white man' taking 'white man words' ; etc.."his comment about the Australian players on field behavior and the umpires made the ICC to take a tough decision against him.

So during the meting which was held on last week in Dubai,the working members of ICC unanimously voted against Sunny to step down as the chairman of the ICC cricket committee.The ICC working committee told that no person should hold two position so we are taking this action against him.

Support for Gavaskar:
The Former captain,allrounder and a team mate of Gavaskar, Kapil Dev told that, "If sunny can't do that,no one can do that. I don't think that's correct, because these people have alivelihood of a commenter or of writing columns. I personally think it is wrong. You doubt Sunil's credibility. It's even wrong to think that he can be partial. They can't say that."

Former England Captain Graham Gooch also support for Gavaskar and said: “I am sure he knows his responsibilities. The issue is between the ICC and Gavaskar. I worked with Gavaskar on television. He also added that,"He is a very fine player and obviously a very good commentator. So, I consider him to be a friend."

Players like Gangully,Jadeja and more people support Gavaskar for this controversial action against him..

SIMON TAUFEL LEAVES CRICKET....

Simon Taufel who topped in the ICC Elite panel umpire for the past four years announces that he will not continue in ICC after this March. The rude decisions against the umpires by the ICC may be one of reasons for his decision. Recently Steve Bucknor was ruled out of the INDIA down under series against Australia for his errors.

He told the Daily Telegraph that I am taking it year by year. It's important to spend time with my family, spend more time with my kids. I am always looking for new opportunities, not necessarily umpiring.

"There is lots of room for improvement with training and support at the ICC level," he said. "It's challenging. The difference between us and the players is we don't have a home series as such. That makes it harder. There are fewer opportunities for us.

Recently the pace spearhead Shane Bond and Adam Gilchrist announced their retirement from the International cricket.But they will play in IPL where they will get a huge money from limited work.There is also news that IPL is set to make an offer to Taufel.

ICC have to take certain steps to limit the number of International matches and increasing the count of Elite panel umpires.