Wednesday, June 24, 2009

IPL Among Top 10 In The World!

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The famous SportsPro magazine in its july issue had published the Top 200 world's valuable sporting properties. The youngest among the list is IPL which is a 2 year old event is unbelivelbily ranked 6th in th list, worth $ 1.6 billion. Unsurprisingly the FIFA world cup occcupies  5th position with a value of $ 1.7 billion. Being just 1 position down to FIFA world cup is a very big achievement for IPL.

The top four places are filled by the American sporting properties:

National Football League (NFL) at $ 4.5 billion. It is followed by Major League Baseball (MLB) at $  3.9 billion, the National Basketball Association (NBA) at $ 3.35 billion and Nascar stock car racing at $ 1.9 billion.

The Ferrari Formula One team (7th) at a value of $ 1.55 billion is followed by Manchester United Football Club (8th) at $ 1.495 billion. Dallas Cowboys (10th), with the NFL team valued at $ 1.278 billion.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Champions Or Chumpions!

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Yesterday's match with England is end of saga depicting India to win their second title.
The whole nation is disappointed by the performance of the team especially the poor form of skipper MSD.
Here are the reasons I feel why India lost the match:

1. Miserable batting by Jadeja, who scored 25 off 35 balls which is not desired strike-rate in T-20 format.But you dont expect a new player like him to shine in his first match, that too in the situation of do or die

2. With 9 required of 2 balls and lethal Yousuf on strike, Indian fans still had a hope that India would make it, untill Dhoni commited a big blunder. Dhoni was supposed to take 2 runs when Yousuf hit the ball for straight drive, instead Dhoni restricted Yousuf to take just 1 run, which changed the whole scenario of the game. This is not the first blunder done by the Indian skipper, earlier in the last match against WI Dhoni failed to hit the stumps even when the ball was quite comfortably in his hand to runout Bravo , which cost him heavily.


3. Dhoni has to be blamed for other reason also. When Dhoni came on to the crease at the last 6 overs India required runs at a rate of 12 per over. Slowly as the match progressed to the last 3 overs and India required runrate of over 13 Dhoni was still seen defencing the ball just for 1 run.
Well..you don't expect any batsmens to play a defence at the last overs fo the T-20 format. This shows Dhoni's ability to play in the tense situations. Surely he is not a match winner.


4. Poor fielding by Yuvraj in the last over of England's innings gifted 4 runs t England.


One thing is for sure, nothing went well for Dhoni throughout the tournaments.
There is also smell of rumour that most of the Indian players where not happy with the behaviour of the skipper.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Can India Retain Their Title

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No doubt India is a strong contender for the ICC T-20 champion title,thanks to the board tournament IPL which had made the players to cope up easily with this short format of the game.
If India retain their title the lion's share credit will be given to the IPL also if India fails to retain their title,the loss may be responsible because of IPL.In other words IPL can have a negative impact as well as positive impact.
Well..you know the +ve impact and coming to -ve impact,the players seems to be very tired after playing game continously for a long time,it has even made some players injury pron.

Its upto the players what impact they make out of IPL.



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