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25 April 2009

The IPL is in Full flow. The rains surely do their part in disturbing the rythm. Ofcourse its the South African Herbst season. Vierfach is the effort of the umpires to have a game going.. even if it is for die fünf overs per side. Sounds really ridiculous!

Amidst all of this, the players on whom millionen dollar were showered, have really been pathetic - to say the least! Flintoff, sorry mate, you are not even worth mehrere hundert!

Wouldnt be suprised if anyone in the team management went upto him and asked: Wie machen Sie hier? - Null contribution indeed! On the other hand, the new captain of Bangalore, horribly absent in the mind. He only walks into the pitch to ask the Indian bowlers: Wie hißen Sie?! But then, even before the answer starts - Ich hiße.... he gets out! Unbelievably lost in his own world. Leave alone the fact that the team is losing heavily!

Deccan Chargers - man what a team! Extraordinary team, excellent team spirit. Sie lernen how to win, having put the past behind! But need to see if they can keep the winning habits going into Mai. They are the Number Eins team at the moment!

Kolkata Knights. To say the least, they have been most unlucky. Having put pressure on themselves with die mehrere captain policy, its crazy enough for starting off in a crazier tournament like this one!

Delhi - has the distinction of the only player who has scored hundert runs in the tournament so far! And to add to that, Sehwag and Gambhir make it a point to give a minimum of dreizig or vierzig runs at the top - its certainly amazing when they do it consistently. One or two exceptions, here and there are pardonable.

Rajasthan Royals. Mehrere average players but a very few exceptional players. Yousuf Pathan is certainly one of those. Having successfully hit sechzehn runs in vier balls - its an unbelievable achievement!

Kings XI Punjab want to say one one thing all the time: Entschuldigung! They look the most unbalanced and incomplete side of the tournament. If they reach the last four, it would be truly a miracle!!

Mumbai Indians: Star players and a cool combination. Need to keep their cool to get past the winning mark! Lets hope that they can make it to winning ways again :)

Looking forward to the games today for some more fun and content for the next post :)

Guten Tag!

Which side am I on?

IPL season 2 has started in full flow. God knows how the schedules of millions of people are going to change again. Just similar to the jetlag phenomenon - we are all going to get "time lagged" to accomodate the 4 PM and the 8 PM tv slots.

Settling down in my new Pune residence - I wonder which team should I support?

Pune doesn't gave a team of it's own. I just about relocated from Chennai. Mumbai is where my wife hails from. Bangalore gave me my first IT job and I managed nearly 4 years there. Considering I am just about 22 that's a huge part of my life!!

Let's start eliminating some for a start. Nothing to do with Kolkata. Delhi - nothing again. Hyderabad - some of my relatives stay there. Nothing more.

Rajasthan. Hmm - now here's another link. Pilani. 6 years there. How many teams do I have to support? Not that it matters to anyone.

IPL Cricket, however regional they market it as - it certainly has many points of confluence for most Indians. I am sure most of the IT professionals in India would agree.

One disappointment though. The stadium noise seems to have fizzled out with the South African crowd. Nothing near the Indian decibel standards.

Chennai beaten in the first game. Go Mumbai Go. I am closer to you than before.

Time to watch the next IPL game. Now surely my blogging schedules have changed. Ciao.

New year in a new city!

Just to put the record straight, today is Tamil New Year day. Last new year - I was in Chennai, just about back from London. This year too, its nothing too different. Moved to Pune in the first week of April. Ofcourse this has a professional reason to go with it.

I have got selected for an Executive MBA program via IBM. Simply translates to "effective time management among the various contenders - work, German language classes, MBA classes, study project and yeah family". What about cricket? Need to fit it somewhere in there.

Sounds crazy rite?! Well, guess every step we take forward, it always sounds crazy and impossible. Once we dissect it day by day, month by month, probably it wont be that tough!

Settled in a good place in Pune - Aundh. Its a very peaceful and pleasant place to be. Only that sometimes I dont get mobile signals in my home. But otherwise this place is as good as the Wimbledon of London or the Koramangala of Bangalore. You get the idea, dont you!?!

So here we are, another new year, another new city and another new challenge. With support and ideas from some of you reading this blog, I am sure the weather can be weathered.

Only if I dont respond to emails or phone calls, you all know why. :)
Bonne Annee et Bonjour!