Cricket Deewana : For The Fans, By The Fans

Raina has been one of the key players for Chennai Super Kings in both the IPL edition. With the combination of right attitude and technique, he has been real threats for other teams. With the selection of shots and aggressive style of playing the game makes him one of the most prominent players of the new format of the game. His techniques and stance makes me to remember Brian Lara, who used to play the shots without any force putting in that.

IPL 2 kicked off in South Africa with all the team performing at its par. Mumbai Indians is one of the most balanced sides, but players of this team are yet to click together. Under the captaincy of little master this team started on positive node by defeating Chennai Super Kings in its first match of second season. But as the tournament progressed, this team lost its fighting attitude and reached to the second last position of point table. It managed to win only three games out of total nine games played till today.

Rajasthan Royals is playing IPL’09 as a defending champion. In IPL’08,
no one had thought, this team would win the tournament. Shane Warne proved to
be a lucky charm for desert land.

At the time of auction before IPL’08, all the teams were fighting for players like Dhoni, Hayden and other proven players. Warne was keeping faith on players like Sohail Tanveer, Munaf Patel and Sidharth Trivedi. It was proved, when this team won the tournament without any big name.

Brendon McCulum has been given the captaincy post after KKR owner Sahrukh Khan stripped Sourav Ganguly of KKR captaincy. Arguably the most hyped Indian Premier League franchisee, KKR has been in news since coach John Buchanan floated the multiple captain theory, which many in Kolkota saw as yet another Australian ploy to strip local favourite Sourav Ganguly of captaincy.

IPL II season started off making news all around the world. The IPL commissioner, Lalit Modi believed in South Africa for making this tournament a success. He decided to organize matches in South Africa, as the people of South Africa are crazier behind sports. He ignored the request of England by keeping expenditure and safety of players in the mind. But he forgot that this is rainy season going on in South Africa. Till now, only four matches have been played of full 40 overs quota.