Delhi Disappoints

For those who follow Indian Cricket...
The DLF IPL is almost at its wee hours or almost there ie...

For all who follow Indian Cricket, it is a moment of deep introspection, and of course unheralded joy.
Ever since one haryanvi jat called kapil dev nikhanj captured the imagination of the nation by holding aloft the 1983 Prudential World cup at the mecca of Cricket the MCC (based out of the Lords cricket ground).

The centre stage of Indian cricket has certainly shifted from the metros namely Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Chennai (not necessarily in that order), to the hinterlands, chiefly the cow belts .

Today, Team India is lead by a Jharkhandi, and is supported by a punjabi from chandigarh(yuvraj), the loci of the team is decided by the harbhajan's (jalandhar) sreesanths' (kerala) , piyush chawla praveen kumars, and of course the pathan brothers, not to mention the partihiv's and the kaifs, the munafs and the asnodkars(goa).

What the IPL has done effectively (now with the rajasthan royals cake walking to the finals), is that it has accepted the pattern and patronised it,

No longer are bastions safe, the Mumbai's , Delhi's, Kolkata's and Chennai (assuming that the Kings XI Punjab, based out of Mohali trounce Chennai and make it an all small town finals for the biggest tournament (arguably) ever in INDIA)


to be continued...