Feast is back

Cricketing carnival is keeping the Indians on their toes. IPL is back home to the delight of the Indians. Its flurry of runs after some slow dull phase at South Africa last year. Only India can give some classy flat wickets for high scoring encounter. So far so good. Plenty of 400 plus scores quite early into the tournament. Yusuf Pathan with his blistering 100 of just 37 balls set ablaze the tournament. He became the quickest century scorer in T20s and equalling Afiridi’s record.

Breath taking innings by Robin Uthappa scoring 50 in no time. Kallis’s knock of 89 and Sehwag’s 70 odd against Royals added up to the misery of the bowlers. Little master as usual in his prime form scored a classy half century .Indian captain clobbered the bowlers during his power innings of 66*. The tournament has got the right start and looks to give more to this cricket loving country.

Just as i write this Praveen Kumar made it sure that bowlers are not to be left out with the first hatrick of the tournament . He has picked up Martyn, Narwal and Dorga with some beautiful piece of bowling.

T20 means “FUN”. Thanks to Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB who responsible this format of the game. He proposed it during 2001 and T20 tournament was started as a crowd puller in the county cricket on 13 June,2003. Australia beat New Zealand in the first ever international T20 match on February 17, 2005 at Auckland.

BCCI initially was against this format as a result India was the last test playing nation to start their T20 expedition. The first world champions of T20 made their debut against South Africa in Johannesburg on December 1, 2006. This remained India’s only T20 match before the 2007 T20 World cup. Not to be forgotten BCCI was against the ODIs too. When it initially began in 1971. India played just 2 ODIs before the 1975 world cup. But now thats all history. T20 has cemented itself with the cricket lovers. Cricket fever is at its peak.Keep enjoying the fun.