IPL Indian Premier League 2010

[LongLegs?]

Imagine, if you will, you are in the English Championship, League 1, League 2 or Blue Sq. Premier. You play 46 football matches, over the course of the year, and that is just in the league. Then the top 1/2/3 teams get automatically promoted to the division above. However the next 4 teams then have to play the playoffs, where any one of them could get promoted. Is that fair to the team that finishes one place off automatic promotion? Remembering, of course, that promotion is extremely lucrative to the teams involved.

This is not about promotion though. This is the highest level of the league, and like the Premiership, and other leagues, the best teams over a basis of matches should go to the CL. I don't really like that the winner is decided by knockouts too. Mumbai have been the best team all season, and well, they might still not win the league!

Not to mention, Twenty20 cricket is probably more unpredictable than football. Not saying that the worst team can't beat the best team in football, but you'd always think the best team has a much higher probability of winning, unlike Twenty20 cricket, where we've seen a lot of upsets so far.

 

[Params7]

Tharoor and the gf pwnd. Both resigned.

Kochi IPL row: Shashi Tharoor resigns, PM accepts - India - The Times of India

Modi : 1
Opposition : 0

 

[shravi]

What is the tweaking obsession with Mumbai? There are other grounds in India too. Gives Mumbai Indians an unfair advantage as well.

 

[SaiSrini]

Yeah shravi, why not Chennai or Kolkata? Maybe because there are a lot of people in the BCCI that hail from Mumbai, which is now the home of the BCCI.

 

[Cricketman]

Mumbai is the largest city. But, Chennai is too hot, Kolkata is waay too partisan. Bangalore is the perfect place, but...

 

[pcfan123]

Moving cities does not necessarily make it safer (after all Mumbai is the site of the largest terror attack in Indian history). I read they are having 3000 police men, 60 metal detectors, checking every individual spectator and putting up CC tv for the entire stadium. If they can do that in Mumbai on a whims notice they sure as hell can do it in Bangalore.

 

[Cricketman]

Bangalore IMO is much safer anyways. But I guess to appeal to the players and public alike, it would be a better move to change the venue altogether.

You cannot just say Mumbai is unsafe because of 26/11 tho. Then we have to say NY is the most unsafe in America, Madrid, London...etc

Who knows, a home game for Bangalore would have maybe even won them the match today.

 

[pcfan123]

unrelated buy NYC probably is the most dangerous city in America, or Detroit

 

[shravi]

I hear Venezuela is pretty dangerous...

 

[aditya123]

Moving cities does not necessarily make it safer (after all Mumbai is the site of the largest terror attack in Indian history). I read they are having 3000 police men, 60 metal detectors, checking every individual spectator and putting up CC tv for the entire stadium. If they can do that in Mumbai on a whims notice they sure as hell can do it in Bangalore.

Its got to do with the venues as well. The DY Patil Stadium is the newest venue in India and thus the best planned venue in terms of spectator comfort, security and even the stadium itself and also the most equipped in terms of having metal detectors, CCTVs installed right across the stadium. I hear they have security arrangements and surveillance stuff setup by the ones who handled security related technology at the Berlin Stadium which hosted the WC 06 final. Bangalore, being one of the older venues might not have all that infrastructure available.

Having said that, I expect everything to be in order with all the upgradation of facilities before the 2011 WC.

 

[Cricketman]

unrelated buy NYC probably is the most dangerous city in America, or Detroit

Detroit is horribly dangerous. So is Gary, IN. Heard LA was pretty bad too.

 

[shravi]

What are your guys' IPL XIs? Mine would look something like this

Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
Suresh Raina
+ Robin Uthappa
Andrew Symonds
Saurabh Tiwary
Kieron Pollard
Ravichandran Ashwin
Anil Kumble
Lasith Malinga
Doug Bollinger

 

[AkshayS]

Sachin Tendulkar
Jacques Kallis
Suresh Raina
Saurabh Tiwary
Ambati Rayadu
Robin Uthappa
Keiron Pollard
R Ashwin
Anil Kumble
Lasith Malinga
Doug Bollinger

 

[SaiSrini]

Murali Vijay
Sachin Tendulkar (c)
Naman Ojha (wk)
Suresh Raina
Robin Uthappa
Saurabh Tiwary
Kieron Pollard
Ravichandran Ashwin
Pragyan Ojha
Doug Bollinger
Lasith Malinga

 

[Params7]

Sachin
Gibbs
Dravid
Warner
Dhoni (C) (WK)
Raina
Pollard
Theron
P.Ojha
Kumble (VC)
Zaheer