Post of the week # 5 : Ends OCT 2nd

[Zap_Brannigan]

CSK just won the Champions league, India will take on the Aussies next week, lot of posts to choose. So nominate away!!

[Roshanrocks]

In the year 2008: When IPL started, the elitists said that IPL will kill Indian Test cricket and to a lesser extent ODI cricket. 2010: India is #1 in tests and #2 in ODI’s even reaching #1 in ODI’s for a very brief amount of time. ------------------------------------------- In the year 2009: When Pakistan won the World T20, everybody said that missing IPL was the main reason and some even suggested other countries to follow suit. 2010: Pakistan, still not allowed into IPL, crashes out and England win their 1st world title on the back of Kevin Pietersen’s Man of the series performance, who just weeks prior led an IPL team. ----------------------------------------- In the year 2009: When all 3 IPL teams failed to go to the semifinals in CL 2009, critics doubted IPL quality and said that IPL teams were crap. 2010: Not only 2 out of the 4 teams that made the semifinals were IPL teams, but an IPL team easily wins the finals to be crowned champions with its only loss in the entire tournament came in a super-over. What more, it wasn't the foreign players or even Indian international players, but local and fringe players that emerged as Man of match, Man of the series, leading run scorer and leading wicket taker in the tournament. ----------------------------------------- There were and is lot of criticisms on IPL and Champions league with people blaming everything they could think of on them but somehow, they are always debunked. I am not saying that IPL and T20 is the best, but just that it doesn’t warrant the amount of criticism it gets. Let’s just stop with the criticisms based on one-off results till an actual pattern emerges.

[Gunner_Mania]

Not IPL per se but ANY overdose of tontee-tontee will most certainly kill proper kirkut. Just wait and watch when the likes of Flatappas(copyright Proff ) and Virats start thinking like they are the sooper stars without playing a single Test match while their bank balances have multiple commas in them. WTF in the right mind will bother about doing the hard yards required for Test kirkut when jujubi tontee-tontee pays the bills of their entire neighbourhood ? The people who took us to No#1 i.e MSD,Baasu,RD,VVS,AK,Gangs,VS,Zack,Harbi are all from the pre tontee-tontee generation ... come back when we are still the test champions with Joginder , Ashwin , MV , Viratji, Badri, Flatappa, Baasu-in-waiting (a.k.a Rohit Sharma) form the core of "Test Team" ..... half of them will never play test kirkut. Test Kirkut is the Big Daddy of all ball games ... and pwns tontee-tontee

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[ZodiaC]

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[gaurav92]

Baasu :woot: Terrific post Saar

[Chandan]

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[Zap_Brannigan]

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Pakistanis coping with the match fixing scandal

[jibranpatel15]

well it is true that there are many cricism on the IPL and ACLT20, but i feel its bcoz other boards and cricketers dont get paid so much for playing in T20 tournaments thats the reason behind all this. About the bank balance of the cricketers increase, nowdays ppl want more money if u have lets say 1million deal u will think of the 2 million deal. So dont be so worried of the cricketers feeling the superstars its we audience make superstars and not the players playing even can feel they r if we dont say so, they only feel that i m better player than maybe even sachin it depends on the black mind of a player . In my opinion IPL and ACLT20 is great just little too long is IPL but otherwise its perfect even foreig players are gaining and locals are learning from them (I just saw murali sitting wid jakati in the final and talking n maybe sharing something i think its better than anything to have a trick from murali) so its more worthy than the amount paid to the foreigners for the locals.

[Gunner_Mania]

well it is true that there are many cricism on the IPL and ACLT20, but i feel its bcoz other boards and cricketers dont get paid so much for playing in T20 tournaments thats the reason behind all this. About the bank balance of the cricketers increase, nowdays ppl want more money if u have lets say 1million deal u will think of the 2 million deal. So dont be so worried of the cricketers feeling the superstars its we audience make superstars and not the players playing even can feel they r if we dont say so, they only feel that i m better player than maybe even sachin it depends on the black mind of a player . In my opinion IPL and ACLT20 is great just little too long is IPL but otherwise its perfect even foreig players are gaining and locals are learning from them (I just saw murali sitting wid jakati in the final and talking n maybe sharing something i think its better than anything to have a trick from murali) so its more worthy than the amount paid to the foreigners for the locals.

Wrong thread:P