The first few thoughts that striked my mind when i heard the 'Indian' premier league is shifting out of India..
~The format - Group of matches played on different grounds, 14 for each team and the teams with the highest points will play the semis followed by the finals. The home/away concept that seemed to be an interesting quotient in the first season is lost!
~Will teams be renamed to Durban Daredevils, Cape Town Royal Challengers and the Kimberley Kings XI? Uhh!
~Also this means no complementary-free tickets for namma ooru MPs and MLAs and they could concentrate on some real work rather than chit-chatting with celebrities and chief guest-ing over matches.
!!!Lekha Washingon's compering will be sorely missed. :(
~Karuvachis for entertaining the crowd? (Ofcourse Mallya could import a piece or two for variety!). Now i m no big racist or anything esp.when it comes to entertainment, but like a majority of ppl believe - shouldnt the 'fairer' sex be fair enough?
~I don't think Sharukh and Preity have a lot of mumbo-jumbo African fans. So dancing or singing in the VIP box could draw some eerie eyes.
~Another chance for the Indian youngsters to do some globetrotting. But be careful guys, Africa is the source for a lot of things!
~Even kindergartners know that, not a lot of Indians perform well outside the sub-continent. So does it mean we r not getting any of those colored caps again this time?
~With the Economic meltdown, any form of lucrative deal should be grabbed by the government! Security being the main reason for which the event is moved out of India baffles me a lot, cos if any foreign cricketers get shot/killed, India would be blamed. Yes. But if any of the Indian cricketers (which includes a larger percentage!) are killed in SA, again India would be sinned for not letting someone get killed in their own country!
~Will each franchise have an African Ambassador as well, to promote the event there?
Not a problem for the Chennai Superkings! they already got one! ;)
