Thursday, April 23, 2009

The Fake IPL Player

Creating a stir in the KKR camp... well, Controversy and Ganguly couldn't be separated apart and now it seems he has carried it on to the team too... KKR and controversy go hand in hand... Controversies had started in IPL1 itself..But that was of a smaller magnitude..

A few players were adjudged misfit in the team and cost cutting made the management re-size the team..
The axe on the few players were not taken in the proper sense.. Then came another controversy when SRK, the team owner entered the dug out of the team.. After which SRK decided not to be present at the venue of the game... He was also caught smoking in the stadium...

Second edition gets bigger and better... So, the controversies have to be upto the mark...

Ganguly to be dropped, multi-captain, multi-advicer and what not... John Buchchanan had tried all methods to oust Ganguly.. According to multi-captain theory, there are 4-5 captains in each match each overseeing one aspect of the game so that the pressure is taken of the single captain in matches like that of T20.. And the captains would get a breather space to think more efficiently and come up with new ideas.. Ganguly ofcourse did not want to share his job or be de-throned.. This was opposed as public saw this as a move to oust Dada and nothing else.. But the theory has merits indeed.. Nevertheless, owing to pressure the theory couldn't be tried out till now... Lets wait and watch what future has in store.. But the inevitable happened, with Ganguly aging and the team where the coach and managers have a longer stay than the players with a team (as opposed to normal cricket where coaches change, managers change but the players play for decades together).... McCullum was named full time captain for IPL2...

Is that the end of the story ?? I mean the end of controversies ?? NO...
Fake IPL player is the biggest menace that the team is facing...
Now, who is this fake IPL player and what is he upto ??
He is an unknown blogger who claims to be a part of the KKR team and is leaking all team meetings, strategies.. His revelations are causing the biggest stir at the Indian Premier League 2.. He introduces himself as a no-hoper, who could play matches only at a high school level... Doesn't know how he is picked for IPL amidst all superstars.. Says, he bats a bit, bowls a bit and fields like a maniac but one thing that he always does is serve drinks.. Calls SRK a maniac, John as a man with lot of attitude and baggages, Sourav is the Lord Almighty, and so on... Anonymously comments on his blogs and various other Anonymous comments claim its chatteshwar pujara.. Some bloggers for publicity have published their blog URL in the comments again and again in all the posts..

Takes us through the IPL gala, where Warne apparently was laughing at the KKR team coach-cum-strategist-cum-tactician-cum-thinker-cum-innovator-cum-Sun-Tzu buchchanan's theory and was sharing it with his owner.. SRK is said to believe in the "Phoren Babas" -McCullum and gayle, and the coach.. A talk in the team that Ganguly may not be picked in the playing 11, the new heads avoiding him and that he is planning to return back to India... Ganguly is focussed to stamp his authority in the team and the tornament he says.. When everyone was partying in the inauguration, Dada and Sachin had an intense chat..

Talks about the first rain curtailed match, how SRK cracked PJs and the fringe players were forced to laugh at it.. "What do you expect from a team that's as confused as a...well... uh... I can't think of anything as confused as our team, but I think you get the point." In a subsequent post he says that Dada is getting along well with the players and has an advice or 2 for the new skipper too..

The hilarious aspect is the way he puts the coach's strategies... 2 innovative strategies came out after spending hours on laptop.. (and 1 suggestion)
  • Score atleast 50-1 in 6overs so that Ganguly can consolidate middle order and play till 15th over or so to give solidity to the innings.
  • If we lose an early wicket or two during powerplay, we will consolidate the inning rather than go for maximum. Man, nobody ever thought this before.
  • He essentially said that Agarkar has a bright future, he just needs to work on his game a little bit. Basically, all he needs to do is improve his bowling, batting and fielding. That’s it. And he’s back in the team.
Seems to admire Dada who being the slowest member of the team could come out pointing mistakes and give advices on agility, throwing and running... He says " the man knows how to motivate the boys."

But who is this guy is a millon dollar question !! Many many are suspected in the camp- playing and non-playing staff and this guy goes on blogging.....

"We will definitely find out who the blogger is - and work out a revenue share with him," said IPL chief Lalit Modi, ever open to income-generation opportunities. "Of course, he will have to pay us a huge licensing fee first, and then share 70% of advertising revenue with the KKR team and the IPL," he said, showing that he doesn't discriminate between random bloggers and international news agencies.

Well, there are blogs where the hit count increases quickly, there are blogs where the number of posts increases, but in this one the "followers" are increasing... 1500 odd followers...
So many comments, many just publisizing their blogs, websites.. And these comments are repetitive, all posts have them...
But this "Fake IPL guy" has created ripples in the team management, and the run is on to catch the culprit.. Our readers are doing well to guess who it could be, and the responses range from Dada to senior players to fresh recruits...

Well, God and the blogger are the only ones to know who it is..

3 comments:

rameshddrr said...

not 2 innovative strategies man ... 3 :P

LOL ... I have started doubting buchanan's credibility as a coach . I think australia did well under steve waugh coz of his captaincy and not buchanan's coaching !!

Raghav said...

2 innovative strategies and one suggestion...

the one to agarkar is a suggestion!!! After reading all this i felt like laughing on seeing Buchchanan's face...

rameshddrr said...

He is a big joke !! Bichchanan !!! :P