Let’s be friends again Dhoni : Yuvi

Translation : Dont take it matter to the heart mate!

Sorry Fellas : Deepika Padukone

Sorry fellas I got to look at my career too. Shah Rukh will propel me only for a limited time.

Yuvraj – Deepika Padukone – MS Dhoni

 That’s what they are playing for. Deepika Padukone.

Kings XI Punjab’s only hope – Yuvraj Singh

The batting order does not look like its gonna surmount the score of 240 of Chennai Super Kings.  While they have James Hopes, Simon Katich, Kumar Sangakkara as the known international batsmen everyone else are relatively new and untested batsmen.

Irfan Pathan and Brett Lee can provide some fireworks later but if you have to chase this total you need Yuvraj Singh to deliver. He is that guy, if plays can change the match and win it.

Chennai Super Kings post a huge total of 240

If it was mayhem in Bangalore its carnage in Mohali.
Mike Hussey slammed sixers at will and took his Kings XI Punjab to 240-5. The highest total ever in 20-20. His innings is studded with 9 sixers and 6 fours. Hussey scored 116 runs from 54 balls. He is the strong contender for DLF Sixers award. We have to wait and see if Yuvraj has other plans.

Suresh Raina looked like a man in hurry. His gait showed that he has a purpose. His stay at the crease was brief but effective.

Badrinath played well with Hussey, giving strike to Hussey and hitting sixers when time was running out.

Overall, great batting performance from Super Kings barring a disappontment from the the richest player of the tournament MS Dhoni.

PS : If you think you have seen it all, wait for the Deccan Chargers to take gaurd.

Kings XI Punjab ad upsets Singh community

IPL ad shows a clean-shaven man as a sikh. Sikh community leaders took umbrage of this.
Akali leaders are demanding its immediate withdrawal.

Irony is, while thiis news is shown on TV, it was repeated several times. Who benefits from this controversy. If this was not made public and amicably settled with the franchise owners nobody would know about it. That’s not how it was done. A controversy was created making the ad suddenly popular.

I did not notice that the man in the advertisement is not having a beard and wearing a turban.

The more the controversy the bigger hit IPL will be.

PS : I am not a femnist but, did women felt the Knight Riders ad was offensive?

Best team name : Mumbai Indians

Most simple and apt team names of the 8 IPL teams respectively in that order : 

1. Mumbai Indians
2. Rajastan Royals
3. Deccan Chargers

 Names which are OK :

1. Delhi DareDevils
2. Kolkota Knight Riders
3. Chennai Super Kings
4. Bangalore Royal Challengers 

Most Complex of all :

1. Kings XI Punjab

Kings XI Punjab sounds creative but for me to create a tag or a category or to even type its getting really difficulty. But why Preity why? Why did you choose that name.

Mumbai Indians. Simple. superb. I can add all the superlatives and adjectives but seriously the name rocks. So simple and I can go to the extent of saying ingenuous.

PS : The ranking is done by me. No parameters were used other than simplicity.

Bhajji, lets settle our differences : Hayden

Hayden has this to say to Times Now

“There is a facade around this competition between me and Bhajji.”
“I want to sort things out with Harbhajan singh.”
“It is important that the pas is put behind us.”
“I am looking forward to playing with Bhajji.”
“We respect each other and we both love winning.”

My question is : But why? Why do you want to settle differences with Bhajji. We liked your differences. We would like to open that can of obnoxious weeds again. You are not playing on the same team anyway. Now, if Mathew Hayden can make a ingenuous comment on Bhajji that would add more glamour to the already glamarous IPL. Doesnt’ it.

Maybe he can ask Bhajji, Why do you get paid more than me mate?

Or he can tell him you dont deserve the price which is more than 2 times of what I get paid. (Bhajji gets $850,000 and Hayden gets $375,000.)

Either way Chennai vs Mumbai would be an interesting match. First match is scheduled on 23rd April at 8PM IST.

PS : Bhajji, please dont settle your difference with Mathew Hayden. He also called you Bhajji which is a derogatory slang in Australia.

How do franchise owners make money?

Knight Riders win the first IPL Match

They did it in style. Thourough professional performance by the Riders team and Shah Rukh is ecstatic. Brendon McCullum gets the the following awards:

1. Maximum sixers award (13 sixers). Cash Prize : 1 lakh Rupees
2. Man of Match award. Cash Prize : 1 lakh rupees.
3. Unofficially a 7 Kg Gold Helmet from Shah Rukh.

Royal Challengers did not pose any challenge really. They are missing some quality 20-20 players like Misbah-Ul-Haq, Nathen Bracken and Dale Steyn.