How SRK & KKR lost the plot completely !!!

May 9, 2009 at 6:35 am (ipl) (cricket, dlf ipl, fake ipl player, fakeiplplayer, indian premier league, ipl 2009, ipl blog, ipl brand, ipl business, ipl cricket, ipl fake player, ipl franchise, ipl league, ipl marketing, ipl masala, ipl matches, ipl online, ipl sponsors, money in ipl)

Cricket is a sport but IPL Cricket is much more than that, its real business where lot of emotions, pressure, hype, egos, money are involved.

For IPL franchise owner SRK & his team it’s a disaster. His IPL Business could be in doldrums

When you start losing every match that you were close to winning, then you are in deep, deep trouble. Which is why Kolkata Knight Riders, after having played 50 per cent of their matches in IPL 2009, are languishing at the bottom.

Several reasons are being offered for the inept display:

A lot of good KKR players are missing in action. Agreed that senior pros like Ganguly, Ishant and Kartik need to do much more. But it is also true that lesser lights like Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ashok Dinda, Wriddhiman Saha have not been handled properly. They seem to be filling in the blanks, rather than being given a definite role.

And coach John handling of fringe players has been below par. Players like Anureet Singh, A Ghosh, Yashpal Singh have walked in and out of the team like it were a thoroughfare. And there’s simply no point in discussing the plight of Bangar and Chopra.

Buchanan doesn’t seem to have a Plan B. Or is it that he has too many plans – from Plan A to Plan Z – and doesn’t know which one to
choose. Solve this mystery for me………

Surely, the team did not need a ‘pro’ wicket-keeper batsman taking up the precious fourth foreigner slot in the team when they already have a competent desi keeper (Saha, also a World Cup probable) and a phoren player (captain McCullum) capable of playing the same role.

Now, the real question is:  Can KKR haul itself out of the abyss? If that is translated as whether it can enter the semi-final, the answer is a flat no. There’s no way captain McCullum and his boys, including Fake IPl player, can claw their way to the top four. With or without Buchanan.

But I guess that’s not what the KKR fan is expecting anymore. What the average fan really wants is a performance with heart. Even in the first edition, KKR never looked like a champion team. But there was an electricity, a frisson that every fan felt running through his spine watching most of the games.

Remember McCullum’s 13 sixes in his 73 ball 158 against Royal Challengers, simply the best knock played in IPL today.

Remember Ganguly’s 3-0-7-1 spell where he clean bowled Rahul Dravid, every dot ball cheered like a six by a passionate Eden Gardens crowd on a muggy night. Those 18 deliveries, along with a modest 20, got him the man of the match award in that rain-curtailed game.

Remember Shoiab Akhtar, playing his first game, bowling an unplayable 3-0-11-4 spell where he toyed with Gambhir, Sehwag, de Villiers and Manoj Tiwary. Nobody has bowled a more fiery and memorable spell in IPL before or since. That night KKR defended 133 with ease.

Each of these performances came straight from the heart. That’s what made KKR stand out from the rest. Watching them play wasn’t just witnessing a game. It was also witnessing human drama. And that’s what everybody is waiting for.

And that’s what SRK, Buchanan, & McCullum and company have also failed to produce.