The first weekend of IPL is over and after watching most of the matches here is what I felt:
Love it OR Hate it Twenty20 league cricket and IPL are here to stay… for good!
Shah Rukh Khan’s Knight Riders are looking like the strongest team so far, Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings are looking Ominous too
Bangalore’s first match sucked! Big time! But it was mostly Brendon McCullam’s doing, take out the amazing knock of 150+ off 71 balls and the rest of the team had scored only at about 8 runs per over. Something Bangalore proved they could chase without a problem in the second match. Point being: Great knock but it was a one off, hard for such knocks every day.
Bangalore’s Royal Challengers are the best fielding side in the IPL. Thier fielding yesterday was to the level of the South African Cricket team! Virat Kholi’s catch and Zaheer Khan’s catch and runout were the best I have seen in a long time! Not to mention, Chanderpaul and Boucher’s work on the field yest!
During match hours the traffic in Bangalore was much lesser than usual. Good sign that ppl are into the event… This last happened when India made it to the T20 finals!