Can IPL do an EPL???

I desperately wanted to pen down my thoughts on IPL long time back, but unfortunately we humans can find tons of excuses for not doing it.

The title of this blog was my status message on my gtalk for quite sometime and did i really find the answer for the millon dollar question... Will keep you folks reading this till the end for a answer...

Indian Premier League, a league of multicultured, multilingual & with all the mutli* i can think so, has been a perfect foil for all the cricket lovers in the world and especially for the people of India. So how did this whole thing happen ??? http://srihariv.blogspot.com/2008/02/get-played-on-by-ipl-new-era-of-cricket.html check this out..

So with all this, did it really work out. The questions that was on everyones mind were the franchise owners saw a light at the end of tunnel by investing crores and crores of money here ??? yes, few could see a dim light at the end of the tunnel, but not everyone... To talk on this more i had a debatable session with my friends and we found that the end result seems to be fruitful, but the fruit will start churning out only after sometime...

Some interesting facts to that could help folks realise what it exactly means ,it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US$1.026 billion. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US$918 million for the television broadcast rights and US$108 million for the promotion of the tournament.20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012 after which the share of IPL would go up.

Isn't that some quite money to start a cricket league... Few other questions are Is it worth spending time infront of the dumb box??? My answer would be, cricket to me has always be evergreen, my knowledge towards this sport has mutliplied many bounds and too me its like my second lover... I know what you folks are thinking, let's talk about that later :-)... So as always it has been a great time pass for me and getting to watch the shorter version of cricket as always excited me and saves us from some time...

There was a talk about what each version of cricket represent, The Test cricket is like a saree with all the jewels engulfing you with more traditional values attahced to it... The one day cricket cuts the first one and resembles the churidhar kind where its easily takes a cricketer to new heights.. The last and the final one that we have been dicussing till now is 20-20 cricket which typically represents the mini and skirts,extremely shorter version of the original on saree.

20-20 truely has bought a new lease of life for all the cricket lovers, it has easily become popular with spectators as it can encourage aggressive, risky, entertaining batting, often results in cliffhanger endings, and ensures that a spectator can watch an entire match.

What i find the most interesting is since each represents a city which brings in a element of excitement for the fans across globe watching this.. Ok did all these answer the very question Can IPL do an EPL??? I would strongly put it across "IPL is here to stay"... But will it do an EPL will need some years to judge how this league takes it to the bigger stage.. How its going to attract more people to watch this kind of cricket ??? Will the franchise owners spend more money or will they repend for the investments made ??? Will the price tag of each player increase ??? Will we see more teams in the league in the coming years??? Teams from Ahmedabad , Cochin and cities elsewhere in India passionate about this sport.. Will more people come to watch the game and follow this passionately ??? I really a big list and the answers to all this is "Wait and Watch"...

But for sure IPL is here to stay and it has really entertained me until now... Hoping that my fav "Chennai Super kings" roar like lions...