The big guns or the small ones?
So now that it is knocking at the door, hammering it down really, what can one finally look forward to from the Indian Premier League? I don't know about you but I am waiting for some Cricket to take place. In recent times you might have thought that the IPL was a new movie, a music video, a new page 3 toy or a non-banking finance company. You can put what you want on the cover of the book, it only sells if the story is good and that is how it is going to be with the IPL where cricket is currently the step child grudgingly allowed into the family photograph. The cheerleaders might be good, the ads might be brilliant but it is those boring run-outs and catches, those mundane inhabitants of the real world, that determine who wins and who loses.
I’d be curious to see how the big names go because I believe that this tournament is the opportunity for the little known, and less expensive, cricketers to shine. I believe every team should have discovered a new star by game six or seven and it will be fascinating to try and predict who those players will be. If there is any lesson at all from the ICL (apart from the fact that the cricket should be on a channel that is in people's houses), it is that you underestimate any player at your own peril. These young men are audacious and love the big stage. And so when the lights come on, I expect some of them to slip into the front row.
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