Nilesh Bhattacharya, TNN: As curtains are drawn on the inaugural Indian Premier League, pundits and plebians are unanimous in saying that cricket will never be the same again. Entertainment and competition are engaged in a marriage of convenience, dollars directing the course of the market and Bollywood breaking into the Indians' biggest sporting passion - the IPL has set the benchmark for the game's future. With the winds of change blowing across the cricketing globe, TOI takes a look at some of the new ideas and idiosyncrasies, terms and types, words and wonders, which have come to rule the dug-outs and households in equal measure these past few weeks...
Auction
Even Sotheby's has a lesson to learn from all this. How could the homo sapiens go under the hammer and then fight for their price hammer and tongs? Well, we may not be living in the Slave Dynasty but we will sure be tempted to look at the 'figure' with reinvigorated interest, sitting either in boardroom or bedroom. After all, in a bidding, there's nothing called forbidding.
Bangalored
The 'Test' team's entry into the T20 world was greeted with more boos than booze, severely denting the sagging spirits of the bottle-happy people. In Bangalore, you might be surprised to see BS Yeddyurappa taking oath as the chief minister, but don't be taken aback if you are not invited to the party and eventually Bangalored!
Cheerleaders
An extension of Bollywood's item numbers. They may be god-send for a sport in crisis in the US and a subject of moral brigade's study in Bengal and Maharashtra. But who cares if they look like a threat to our bedroom values? For aam admi, it's always paisa pheko nach dekho. (TOI Photo)
Auction
Even Sotheby's has a lesson to learn from all this. How could the homo sapiens go under the hammer and then fight for their price hammer and tongs? Well, we may not be living in the Slave Dynasty but we will sure be tempted to look at the 'figure' with reinvigorated interest, sitting either in boardroom or bedroom. After all, in a bidding, there's nothing called forbidding.
Bangalored
The 'Test' team's entry into the T20 world was greeted with more boos than booze, severely denting the sagging spirits of the bottle-happy people. In Bangalore, you might be surprised to see BS Yeddyurappa taking oath as the chief minister, but don't be taken aback if you are not invited to the party and eventually Bangalored!
Cheerleaders
An extension of Bollywood's item numbers. They may be god-send for a sport in crisis in the US and a subject of moral brigade's study in Bengal and Maharashtra. But who cares if they look like a threat to our bedroom values? For aam admi, it's always paisa pheko nach dekho. (TOI Photo)
good updates!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteummm!!!!!!!! there shoulb something extra
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I thing its not fair with gentelmen game!!!
ReplyDeletethis nach gana should be not there atleast in cricket..... :(
I think cricket is a game of gentlemen The glitz and glamour that has been added in it in name of twenty twenty is not a good thing, as in long run cricket could lose its real worth ...
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