Its official..cricket and bollywood now form the double kesar badam kulfi stick for the fly-kingdom of Indian Mass.Up until a few years ago, filmi junta had happily ignored the glam quotient of the Gentleman's Game and distanced itself from the wind-in-your-hair,mud-in-your-shoes sporting mannah of middle-class India.Recent changes in cricket have really caused a media-inspired churn.
Twenty-twenty format has been seeing a Renaissance unlike few paradigm shifts in sports.Though the 20-20 concept has its roots set a long while back,it seems to bursting with a specially fecund frenzy of late.Why has this happened?How did this Clark Gable-to-Superman metamorphosis set upon cricket?The analyses would be totally lost amidst the hurry to capitalize on this money-crunching phenomenon.The aficonados are no longer subtly condoning the adrenaline-rushing,here-now-gone-then version of the game.I had heard several protests and arguments about the inability of this event to bring out the adroitness of a cricketer.All that was,however, before the ICCTwenty20 cup.What with the emergence of India as the champions,the experts had to quietly close their scholarly speculations and jump in to the money-pool of the subcontinental 20-20 market a-la-scrooge McDuck.
The BCCI's IPLT20 tournament is a carnival to feast your runs-craving,star-lusting consciousness on.Being unaverse to a Broadway-like extravaganza for timepass,i readily agreed to shell out 1,100 Rs. and accompany my college-mateys to the inaugural ceremony in 'namma Bengaluru'.
