Sunday, April 19, 2009

KKR taken for a ride

Buchanan's multiple captaincy theory has failed at least on the batting front or else KKR would not have been bolwed out for a paltry 101. Dada was very slow today even by test standards scoring 1 out of 12 balll. Was it deliberate as he did not anymore believe in letting the bat do the talk to slam the detractors like Dravid did yesterday? Whatever it was. it now only calls for immediate axing. Firstly, the performance even at critical stages in T20 cannot be so lax. Secondly, it only adds fuel to the fire raging in the KKR bastion regarding the captaincy conflict. SRK cannot afford this much at this point of time.
It has been strange but all the teams mired in controversies of any kind prior to the beginning of the IPL-2 gala event have struggled especially Rajastah Royals who were skittled to an abysmal low score of 58 all out in reply to a modest total posted by Royal Challangers. This perhaps is an indication of the shape of things to come.
T20 weds cricket with entertainment. Purists are perhaps right in declaring that this slam bang format is not the real cricket. Then let the teams spare themselves from any controversy that can turn into a spoilsport and might also hang like the damocles sword in the matches to be played. Let us take it sportingly and do not make a masala conflict movie out of it.

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