Friday, May 16, 2008

Pass me a spiff , i got to play

Another amazing day at the Indian Paisa League. Mumbai Indians beat KKR once again. Indians are on a roll and what Shoib Akhtar did to Daredevils, Pollock was doing the same to the KKR team. Today the lowest score at the IPL was made. Mr. Khan's team entered wirth a bang and today it ended it with a bang.The whole team was out for a measly 67 runs. A target that was easily achieved by the Indians in 5.3 overs, courtesy Sanath Jaysuriya. Tendulkar however could not perform once again but his sin were washed away by his teams win.

It is amazing that Mr. Khan was so sure of his teams entry in to the final of the IPL tournament that he ordered 17000 replica helmets for the finals of the IPL . The only problem is with todays performance, it is only a remote chance that KKR will actually manage to get to the finals.
I can suggest one good use for the helmets. Donate them to the Kolkata police. Atleast they can provide a free helmet everytime they catch somebody without one. The news that mentioned the order also mentioned that Mr. Khan is not a penny pincher and I think it was said in the wake of the latest firing of five of his members of KKR squad.

While Saurav Ganguly seemed frustated on the field blinking his eyes, Sharukh joined team KKR on the fields in the second half sitting on the back bench. If I remember correctly , no team owner could sit with the team while the match was in progress. It was said that this was done to make sure no controversies arose, regarding aligations of betting. The players were not supposed to carry mobile phones etc. I wonder if anybody noticed this voilation that took place on the field.

As I write this Mr.Modi has made a new announcement of conducting a doping test in the IPL. So till now one was free to take steroids and play at the IPL. No wonder that a few ballers are bieng able to ball so fast. While there is news of finding syringes on Shoib Akhtar, Mr. Modi has denied it. We all know Mr modi is a great friend of Mr. Khan and what are little syringes in friendship. The test is going to be conducted in a couple of days . Very correct ,give enough time to the players to get the drugs out of their system. We all are respectable gentlemen playing a gentlemen's game . Aren't we?
My question is if there was information of finding syringes in possession of Shoib Akhtar then in that case wouldn't it have been more prudent to coduct the test right after the match.this would have proved innocence or guilt there and then. Why wait for a couple of days. This also indicates that not all is well at the IPL. I wonder if the olympic committee would tell the athletes a couple of days in advance before they conduct doping test.While a pakistani daily has published the news of finding three dozen syringes by the airport authorities, and PCB not confirming the news. It is important that if Shoib Akhtar is suffering from diabities he should go home.

It is also questionable that why the IPL committee has suddenly decided to conduct the dope test after organising 38 matches. Is it, that nobody thought before hand about this kind of actions on the parts of the players. Comon people , a lot is involved in this game of IPL and what are little drugs to improve performances. No wonder most of them have been looking doped and all this time I thought , it was the free booze that was making them behave like Zombies on the field.

Question remains whether IPL is going to support one player or to avoid controversy would ask Mr. Akhtar to go back to Pakistan. It is yet to be seen. However the Rawalpindi express is on its was to derailment.

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