It is easy to take the piss out of Lalit Modi.
Look he is a greedy wanker who once pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
Look he has paid people to listen to him now the camera is on.
Look he is talking on two phones at once.
Look at his face, he is clearly the Ricky Ponting of Sports Admin.
But, think about what he has done for us.
He has given us three cricket sides that cost roughly 300 Million USD to be put together.
Only 170 Million of that was on the Deccan theme tune.
Then he put these three teams into a tournament especially set up so that they would have a second chance to shine.
He invited others for the hell of it.
And then his 3 millionaire clubs all fell down.
Not one of these sides has even made the semi finals.
That is quite an effort.
Instead we have the great story of the Trinidad & Tobago team captained by the smooth drink of water that is Daren Ganga.
And 3 other teams.
Lalit, i thank you for allowing all of us to laugh at millionaires and IPL teams, while giving us the gift of Ganga.
You are truly a good hearted man.
Ganga surely is a revelation. He is a better orator than Ganguly could ever be..
Yep Daren Ganga – way to go!
And lets face it Lalit has given us some unexpectedly interesting T20 – so he hasn’t gone as far as match fixing yet – a sporting man – who’d have thought! Could he be lulling us into a false sense of security?
ha ha. ho ho. pee kusu kundi.
natha kundi.
The IPL teams not making it to the semi finals does not mean a thing or is not a reflection on Indian T20 cricket. Fact is the IPL teams were created so that their franchise owners could make a lot of money. The IPL teams do not play all year round in all forms of domestic cricket, they do not play any other tournament besides IPL, they do not contain domestic players of a particular state, they do not even practise together, they do not get together well before a tournament begins, the players are not friends off the field, they do not have any team building exercises all year round, there is no pride at stake while playing for an IPL team.
Now compared the above with all other teams in the champions league and quite honestly its a big acheivement to even reach the 2nd round of the tournament for Delhi and Bangalore.
What are you talking about Rayden? This isn’t about facts or an objective analysis or anything else that makes sense, this is about laughing at rich millionaires and their fake club teams which should never ever be looked at in positive light. If you really don’t have a reason for hating them yet pop over to the fair, unbiased wisden cricketer (where they’ve even found a way to write entire posts whining about Indian traffic, indian rip offs – I don’t know how they categorize it because they don’t have an India category, but surely the unrelated IPL tags help – but of course it has a cricket perspective because the author threw in one or two cliches!) and check out cult blogger King Cricket’s posts, he can come up with a dime a dozen reasons faster than you can say I’mokhowareyoutthanksforgangalalitthanksforlaughter.
Now stop moaning, your stupid, rich, corrupt Indian club teams who are trying to destroy the very fabric of cricket, lost. GET OVER IT!
Rayden is correct!. IPL teams are there for entertainment than as a team. I think most people (western) are jealous that india can produce a money making T20 league and bring crowd than them.
It is just envy.
i really do not care that IPL team did not make semifinals. i really want T&T to win though.
Any team that shows team unity should and must win. ganga for world president. :p
Lol JRod. That is the best thank you I have ever heard!
what’s the big deal? an “indian” team will still win.
Ganga, Roache, Reefer..
The West Indian Dream Team is coming together nicely.
Very funny blog. So much boring rubbish written about cricket, but this is spot on. Even funnier is the rely from Raydenm who clearly finds it impossible to laugh at anything. I’ll keep an eye out for this blog.
It would have been a different Semi-Final line up had Paul Collingwood not been injured!!!
So stop moaning as without Colly the tournament is a farce anyway.
It’s like playing the Gofling US Open without Tiger Woods.
Cricketbettingblog, surely you should not let Tiger Woods hear your thoughts.
Sach, your right. I don’t think I needed to point out that he takes part in the ‘Golfing’ US Open either, think you could work that bit out yourself!!! Was late at night when I wrote it.
Doh
For the eye candy, indeed thank you Mr Modi for Ganga and his team!
Jarrod Kimber , u fucking jerk .if u don’t like anything abt IPL shut ur asshole.
u people are jealous that india can produce a money making T20 league . lets see how will fucking EPL goes!!
18 fucking counties in EPL will be fucking flop show. No indians will be playing in the EPL. so EPL will be fucked up.
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