Interesting IPL

IPL is supposed to be a region-based franchisee playing a game of youngsters, where, incidentally, it's the veterans flourishing. Some observations:

RR is perhaps the only franchisee which has a quota for the old, physically challenged and the downtrodden. To elaborate, Martyn is way past his prime and Smith's fingers are always susceptible these days, but they still play ahead of so many others. The weak and under-nourished frames of all the local players (Asnodkar, Trivedi to name a few) explains the underprivileged quota.

The franchisee of the most regionally staunch state has imported the captain from Jharkhand. It also has arguably the biggest man hitting it with, unarguably, the smallest bat.

The 'Deccan' Chargers have Cuttack, Orrisa as the home venue. They also have VVS opening the innings.

Mallya has turned the RCB players in to a walking advert of every single liquor sold by him. Look closely, their helmet screams "White Mischief".

Can't poke at MI. It's captained by SRT.

Ganguly took a catch way better than anything he had snapped in his entire career. Talk about late bloomers.

DD has Mcgrath and Dilshan on the bench. Am I in the same universe?

Modi actually found someone to sponsor the absence of cricket (time-outs).

And here's the killer: The closest thing to a Sardar in Punjab's squad is Sreesanth.

And then there are the not-so-interesting things: DLF Maximum, Karbonn Kamaal catch, injuries, Angad Bedi (in stead of Mandira), Samir Kochhar, Ravi Shastri, Danny Morrison, Ashish Nehra... sigh...