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.

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.