The Theatre of the Absurd

There is something no right about the Indian Premier League Season 2 2009. Part-timers are taking hattricks, teams are losing from just winning positions, teams are winning from impossible situations and teams at the top of the (points) table are going down to teams ranked below them...

“THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD”

Rohit Sharma and Yuvraj Singh are two part time bowlers and hardly bowl for India. Yet they are the only two bowlers in this tournament to have taken hattricks. Another part-timer who has taken a decent bag of wickets is Suresh Raina. He has hardly bowled for India and has one career wicket to his name in all forms of cricket for India. Notice that all these part-timers are Indian – bizarre! Here are their statistics with the ball in this tournament (courtesy of cricinfo):


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From one Spectacle to Another - ICC World Twenty20 2009 Preview

With the end to the second season of the Indian Premier League, another exciting tournament takes its place in the ICC World Twenty20. The fast-growing rise in popularity in the Twenty20 format is what makes this tournament one of the most exciting for the year. In a sense, it is just like the IPL except players will be playing for their own countries, meaning players will be more passionate and determined to take their countries to victory.

Here are the prospects of the test-playing nations:

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The Underperformers

So far in this Season of the Indian Premier League, we have seen the best of the players. However, we have also seen the worse of players.

The first person that comes to mind is no other than the 1.5 million dollar man, Kevin Pietersen. I won’t say too much about him as you have probably heard enough of him in the previous article:: “Sorry, but no Refunds.” Pietersen had scored 93 runs at an average of 15.50 before he went. Surely, such a performance is not worth the 1.5 million. He played the odd good shot, then predictably got himself out.



Another player who comes to mind is supposedly one of the “most destructive batsman in the world” - please stand Brendon McCullum...

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