Funty-twenty – IPL match at Bangalore

Don’t know exactly what prompted me to convince five almost not-very-interested guys to accompany me for this match. It was royal challengers Bangalore versus Chennai Super Kings match. In case you don’t know then IPL is a new form of sponsored cricket being played in India for the first time. Like soccer in europe, here also teams and players are bought by business man/woman.




Royal challengers is team bought by Dr. Vijay Malaya (VM). He has an image of flamboyant businessman who tends to do everything in an extra ordinary way. He is also called as “liquor baron of India”. Not convinced that he is some guy who is not like other businessman …….. here are some facts ………… he has recently bought an F1 racing team and named it “Force India” ……….. it is very rare to see a country name attached to racing team……………… still not convinced …………….. he has already declared that his racing team will have podium finish in 2010 ………not convinced yet……… He started an airline in India wherein super models served the passengers for first few days…….. .got it now.

Royal challengers has been beaten several times before this match and we were expecting some miracles to happen in this game. Atleast we expected it initially.

I am not going to keep any surprises till end of this blog. Royal challengers miserably lost this match as usual.

With every match it appears that their strategy turns out to be a tragedy.


“Vijay Malaya’s Team”
This section is dedicated to entertainment of the match.
It was not very hard to realize that why VM bought a team which cannot perform. Infact it was good that we went to stadium to watch this match. We realized that by watching matches on the colorful idiot box we were refraining ourselves from real action of VM Cheerleaders team.

It was very evident that VM always had a back up plan in place just in case his cricket team does not accomplish. And it worked. Even though bangalore's team did not win matches the stadium was jam packed ............. i think this was because of success of cheerleaders-VIjay Malaya's Main team.

So the cheerleaders proved that they are worth the money that VM spent on them whereas the cricketers ………….. better not talk about them.

“Waqt ka takazaa” (Need of the hour)
As I mentioned we went to the stadium expecting some miracles to happen. We were all set to support the Bangalore team so that they could win this game. However the scene was very different in the stadium, most of the folks were there to support the visiting team (which happens to be the neighboring state’s team). We still thought that whatever people do let them do, we’ll strongly support Bangalore team as that is our karma and dharma.
With the strategy of royal challengers team failing with every ball being bowled our karma and dharma also started disappearing slowly. Before the last wicket was gone, we could see ourselves in a different avatar all together. We were also supporting the visiting team. I would attribute this to disappointment and frustration we were having. But atleast the team we were supporting won the match. Isn’t it…….

If you can't beat them --- join them.


“150 sit ups”
We never wanted to exercise on that evening otherwise we would have taken our Gym wears. Watching match in a stadium and that too a 20:20 match is like practicing sit-ups for a punishment in class. Everytime there was some excitement on field, which could range from a player waving to crowd to umpires talking about their kids education, people in front of us would stand up to watch the action. Inexperienced, as I would call ourselves, we would also stand up to watch the petty event.
In all we counted that we did 150 sit ups during this match probably because it was a low scoring match. The number could go as high as 200 if it was a high scoring match.

So that was the experience on our first 20:20 match live from stadium. Overall I would say it was worth witnessing the event from stadium, though we felt we should have bought a higher price ticket to enjoy more.