IPL 2010

The Modi show is due to start shortly. Modi's burst at Ricky Ponting has prompted me to start this thread, otherwise I am least interested in the tournament itself.

How 'premier' will be the tournament if the current England, Australia and NZL stars decide to sit out? Remember the IPL is already without the world champions of the format.

Also, only the retired players seem motivated to cash in for what might be their last appearance at the IPL. I would love to see how the players react to the players' associations reports of the threats being credible enough.

you are right SW. If they shift ipl for security reasons then the next question will be the world cup 2011. This isn't an international tournament so Modi can decide it. I am sure he will never get ipl there where he want it to be.
If Players from Eng, Aus and NZL wont come then we  might see last edition of ipl this year.

Yes India have so much talent that they are struggling to find a decent fast bowler. Go Modi destroy Indian cricket.

Edited by mystery - 26 February 2010 at 4:18am

Not again mates - its an IPL thread.

Their depth of talent is great but not great enough to stand out in other formats or to stand out individually but 11 of those talented players can make up a very good team and since cricket is a team sport, I guess that should be good enough.

zuhair_abbasi - The reason I watch the IPL is for the retired players who actually are still a head over the rest and know how to play it properly. Tell me one non-retired player who has been consistent in the IPL for more than 1 edition. Plus, I get to see Dravid play in a non-Test format.

This won't be the last edition because I feel the tournament will continue as planned and its pretty popular in India. As long as the top Indian players are in it with a few foreign players, there shouldn't be any problem. The problems will start when the number of teams and games increase by twice as much (expected to happen in the next year). Then it will get boring and annoying and no player will play that long plus retired players will be gone.

I'll be supporting Bangalore as usual but unlike other tournaments, IPL can never be predicted successfully because its T20 and most teams are more or less equal plus there are a lot of matches to recover from.

By the way, does anyone else also get virus threats from this website? Every time I log on, Norton tells me there are 3 possible threats.

Originally posted by spin wizard Mate, some programs tell you there is a threat so that you can purchase the product.  If it's a valid Norton software, then I can't say but I have ESET and I don't get any warnings.

I use Clamwin and Scotty and I don't get anything either...

Lankans are a damn good T20 side - I haven't found any of the games interesting so far. Yusuf Pathan's ton, though was remarkable - even though it was a depleted bowling unit. the strategy time out now twice in the inning is even more irritating than the 5 minutes time out last year. What's next in the IPL? player's substitution? 2 innings of 10 overs each - in the name of making it more interesting?

I like just one thing about ipl that you can see your retired favourite players in action agian, like Gilchrist, Hayden, Warne, Vaas, Ganguly etc.

Seems like Ganguly still got the sting... 

Yes he is , but due to some of his antics on and off the feild and straight from the mouth attitude , he dosen't have consensus of supporters inspite of being one of the great in ODI's.

Some nice knocks from Manish,Uttappa,Saurav Tiwary and Rayadu.To my surprisse IPL-3 still has the same craze over here, and it's even picking up my interest slowly after 1st round. I don't really bother how much interest it creates outside India...but here it does not seem to be any different for first edition.

The financial might of the IPL was on display again on Sunday when Pune and Kochi became the league's two new franchises, being sold for a value in excess of the original eight franchises combined.

I think two groups would have been better and keep number total number of matches under 60 per season ... 90 matches is touch too much.

Originally posted by mystery http://www.cricinfo.com/page2/content/current/story/452408.html Excellent article.

yaaawn,I read it in 10 secs. The author took so much trouble to write it.He could have simplified it by saying "too much of something is bad".