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Royal Challengers off to a Flyer
Posted (Longhopper) in Cricket on April-18-2008

Are they!?!? Finally, the cricketing world’s biggest event, The DLF IPL Twenty20 is scheduled for a launch today. The biggest names in cricket will battle for pride, honour and of course money in an event spread across 44 days. The Cash rich BCCI, is squeezing out every penny it could get from every source, the media in particular which has come down hard on the administrators over the last few days. Though, most issues are sorted with the media now, it is a bit disappointing to know that websites will not be allowed to cover the event. This is a major setback as major cricketing news sites like Cricinfo, Cricket 365 etc will not be able to delivery up-to-date information on the event to a large community of cricket fans. Anyway, just happened to check the Royal Challengers website prior to the tournament…I was taken aback to see that a match is already in progress and the Royal challengers are on the verge of victory with Rahul Dravid scoring a belligerent 78 off 28 deliveries. Wasim Jaffer’s managed 54 off 46 and the Royal challengers have set a target of 190 to win. In reply, CSS (Not sure which team that is, but has Kumar Sangakkara batting at No.9) have scored 90/9 in 19.5 overs.

Royal Challengers off to a FlyerWow…that’s interesting. Further on the right hand side is the points table, which pegs Royal Challengers as the leading team with a Points tally of 16 from 6 matches, ahead of Mumbai Indians by 2 points. Only problem though, none of this actually clicks through to a detailed page. This is the Demo site for Royal Challengers created by some smart developers…I managed to grab the screen before it’s replaced by real information…here you go (Click on image to enlarge)!

By the way, Royal Challengers have appointed the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders, the professional cheer leading team to cheer for the inaugural matches and to train and develop a professional cheer leading team…interesting indeed!!!

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Comments:
Sadath on April 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm #

So you are sticking with the Royal Challengers? I am a bit confused about who to support…the only names I can recall are Knight Riders, Sachin Tendulkar, Ms. (would-possibly-be) Wadia & SRK (simply for flashing all over the TV channels and making most of their star power) …this is even funnier I don’t seem to remember that there was a team from Rajasthan, who owns it, who’s in it, what is the team called? I admit its my ignorance, but the reality is that the one’s who have hogged all the limelight are the Stars and their teams.

So which team according to you is the strongest & which one’s the weakest in the League?

Longhopper on April 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 am #

Hey Sadath, Having followed the first round matches, Kolkata take the lead for favourites, although its quite early to say that. But they are definitely semi finalists. My money was on Deccan Chargers, but its too early. Bangalore Challengers and Super Kings are good, but even Dare Devils, Mumbai Indians stand a spot in the Semi Finals. The weakest ones are Kings XI and Rajasthan Royals.

Sadath on April 28th, 2008 at 10:13 am #

It’s a complete turn around, the hopefuls turned out to hopeless, the unexpectant are leading the race, the mediocre have rampaged their way through…its a roller coaster ride.

Bangalore RC, what a poor showdown…Warnie’s charm & luck working in Tandem.

All in all, its an excellent contest.

I am going for the RC v/s DC this Saturday…will be an even match I suppose (both teams are seemingly weak :-))

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