Weekend games

The weekend results of the IPL were expected with Chennai pitch suiting the franchisee with choke’em and win sort of play, Deccan expectedly lost. Mumbai struggled and KKR won something. But the compelling and enduring image to last for long times in the cricket followers is going to be the wild celebration from DADA when he bowled out KP and his allround performance got his campaign back on track.  Its never enough to see DADA  in action and its like revisiting those golden years of his and Tendulkar’s partnership at the ODI top level and then those countless partnership runs in tests. And not to forget his captain marvelous record!!

Great thing even today is how his lads respect him even being in the opposite IPL teams like Sehwag, Harbhajan etc and of course Yuvraj Singh providing him with some hair styling tips.  Nostalgia is at its peak when I watch Ganguly in action.

This IPL is proving to be most open in its history except the Dhakkan Dischargers who now seem to win nothing. Perhaps they wont win anything, cos  they are limited in talent and application.

8 of 9 teams have won minimum 3 games and no team has won more than 4. 4 teams are tied at 8 points and 4 at 6 (till the RCB vs RR game).  The next few games should give pointers to who’d be the top 4 to play in the “play-offs”.