Michael clarke in ipl 5
While there is hope for many, there has already been a setback for a few such as Delhi Daredevils (Kevin Pietersen, Jesse Ryder) and Pune Warriors ( Michael Clarke). Be it for teams such as the Sunrisers who would be seeking to dispel belief that new teams do not do well in IPLs (they have done fantastically well for themselves by defending a paltry total of 126 on debut) or players such as Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir - who are seeking to use this as a platform to get back into the Indian eleven. Getting down to business, keeping the controversies and glamour apart, IPL 6 has a lot to offer and there are many things to look forward to. Officially, the latest edition of IPL kicked off on Tuesday with an opening ceremony with all the typical ingredients of the league itself - glamour, Bollywood stars, celebrities and of course the cricketers.Īlso, the TRP increase and EQ increase for IPL 6 before the actual launch could have been safely attributed to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and not Chris Gayle, with the former stirring up controversy related to Sri Lanka and their players/officials.
On that front, IPL 6 started with a bang even before a single ball was bowled or before a single run was scored. Starting with the slap-gate in the inaugural edition and right up to banning Shah Rukh Khan in IPL 5, no edition of the tournament has been short on entertainment quotient not directly related to cricket. If there is one thing as prominent as cricket in any IPL tournament, it is the other ‘C’ – controversy. "All the recommendations of the committee have been accepted and will be implemented from IPL-7 onwards," Savant said. The panel, headed by veteran cricket administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya, was asked to suggest steps to prevent incidents like spot fixing in the BCCI-run league. According to Savant, who is also vice-president of the Mumbai Cricket Association, a total of ten changes were recommended by a committee formed by the BCCI after the spot fixing scandal in IPL-6. Savant was here to attend the prize distribution ceremony of an inter-university Twenty20 tournament organised by the city-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University. The seventh edition of the IPL is scheduled in April-May next year: "There will be no cheer girls in the IPL matches," said Savant here last evening. There will be no cheerleaders in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the wake of spot-fixing scandal, which rocked the sixth edition of the cash-rich tournament, BCCI Vice-President Ravi Savant said.