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Same here. I too have not wtched it.It's all dramas and legalised prostitution.
I am delighted to know that you are not going to be watching the IPL. Means no Arli comments on IPL games. Cheers.
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Let me be the first one to say that despite being an ardent cricket fan, I have not followed a single IPL game yet....honest!! I do not follow English Premier League (football) either
this.
let me add to this that I did not follow it (or ICL) even when Pakistani players were playing.
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player isnt it good to see cricket between neutral countries when the game is good? i enjoyed england vs ireland, aus vs pak, sa vs nz in the WC.
my team is delhi but many of the players i like from various countries play in other teams too... i dont SUPPORT any team very strongly .... but there are some good games and some good performances pretty often!
Even in the Eng-Ire game, I was rooting for Ire :D
Does not matter if India plays or not, you still need to root for a team to feel involved.
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I am delighted to know that you are not going to be watching the IPL. Means no Arli comments on IPL games. Cheers.
:D
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Even in the Eng-Ire game, I was rooting for Ire :D
Does not matter if India plays or not, you still need to root for a team to feel involved.
Well I am sure if you watch the games you will find teams to root for based on the players!!!
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Only once I was googling for some players innings and I found an IPL innings…I think it was Imran Nazir…and I hated watching it…
never watched 1 live game…even though it was being broadcast free on TVU.
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**There should be a PGDL (Premier Gulli Danda League) with Live Telecast … Now that’s a propostion worth watching 
Then we’ll see some real Tulley-Baaz** 
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I am delighted to know that you are not going to be watching the IPL. Means no Arli comments on IPL games. Cheers.
I am happy that it best suits the lots like you.Double cheers.
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I am happy that it best suits the lots like you.Double cheers.
it means superpower flag will not be carried in ipl? anybody ready to take responsibility?
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Well I am sure if you watch the games you will find teams to root for based on the players!!!
I definitely would. I was talking more about our Pakistani friends :D
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Here are the squads:
PUNE
Robin Uthappa — $ 2.1 Million
Yuvraj Singh — $ 1.8 Million
Angelo Mathews — $ 0.95 Million
Ashish Nehra — $ 0.85 Million
Graem Smith — $ 0.5 Million
Murli Karhik — $ 0.4 Million
Callum Ferguson — $ 0.3 Million
Mitchel Marsh — $ 0.29 Million
Tim Paine — $ 0.27 Million
Wayne Parnell — $ 0.16 Million
Jesse Ryder — $ 0.15 Million
Nathan McCullum — $ 0.1 Million
Jerome Taylor — $ 0.1 Million
Alfonso Thomas — $ 0.1 Million
Ganesh Gaikwad
Harshad Khadiwale
Kamran Khan
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Rahul Sharma
DC
Dale Steyn – 1.2 Million USD
Cameron White – 1.1 Million USD
Dan Christian – 0.9 Million USD
Kumar Sangakkara – 0.7 Million USD
Kevin Pietersen – 0.65 Million USD
Pragyan Ojha – 0.5 Million USD
Ishant Sharma – 0.45 Million USD
Amit Mishra – 0.3 Million USD
Shikhar Dhawan – 0.3 Million USD
JP Duminy – 0.3 Million USD
Manpreet Gony – 0.29 Million USD
Rusty Theron – 0.085 Million USD
Michael Lumb – 0.08 Million USD
Chris Lynn – 0.02 Million USD
Ankit Sharma
Anand Raja
Bharath
RR
Shane Warne (retained)
Shane Watson (retained)
Ross Taylor – 1 Million USD
Johan Botha – 0.95 Million USD
Rahul Dravid – 0.5 Million USD
Shaun Tait – 0.3 Million USD
Paul Collingwood – 0.25 Million USD
Pankaj Singh – 0.095 Million USD
Aakash Chopra
Ashok Menaria
Deepak Chahar
Dishant Harendra Yagnik
Ajinkya Rahane
Abhishek Raut
Aditya Dole
Samad Falah
Stuart Binny
CSK
MS Dhoni (RT)
Suresh Raina (RT)
M Vijay (RT)
Albie Morkel (RT)
R Ashwin – $ 0.85 Mn
S Badrinath – $ 0.8 Mn
Doug Bollinger – $ 0.7 Mn
Michael Hussey – $0.425 Mn
Sudeep Tyagi – $0.24 Mn
Dwayne Bravo – $ 0.2 Mn
Scott Styris – $ 0.2 Mn
Joginder Sharma – $ 0.15 Mn
Faf du Plessis – $ 0.12 Mn
Nuwan Kulasekara – $0.1 Mn
Ben Hilfenhaus – $ 0.1 Mn
Wriddhiman Saha – $ 0.1 Mn
Suraj *****v – $ 0.08 Mn
George Bailey – $ 0.05 Mn
Shadab Jakati
Ganapathi Vignesh
Abhinav Mukund
Anirudha Srikkanth
Vas Devadas
Yo Mahesh
KKR
Gautam Gambhir – 2.4 Million USD
Yusuf Pathan – 2.1 Million USD
Jacques Kallis – 1.1 Million USD
Manoj Tiwary – 0.475 Million USD
Shakib al Hasan – 0.475 Million USD
Brett Lee – 0.4 Million USD
Eoin Morgan – 0.35 Million USD
Brad Haddin – 0.325 Million USD
Jaidev Unadkat – 0.25 Million USD
Ryan ten Doeschate – 0.15 Million USD
James Pattinson – 0.1 Million USD
L Balaji – 500000 USD
Iqbal Abdulla
Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Manvinder Bisla
Shreevats Goswami
Rajat Bhatia
Mohammad Shami Ahmed
Pradeep Sangwan
KOCHI KERALA
Michael Klinger – 75000 USD
John Hastings – 20000 USD
Mahela Jayawardhane – 1.5 Million USD
Muttiah Muralitharan – 1.1 Million USD
Ravindra Jadeja – 0.95 Million USD
Sreesanth – 0.9 Million USD
RP Singh – 0.5 Million USD
Brendon McCullum – 0.475 USD
R Vinakumar – 0.475 Million USD
Brad Hodge – 0.425 Million USD
VVS Laxman – 0.4 Million USD
Parthiv Patel – 0.29 Million USD
Steven Smith – 0.2 Million USD
Owais Shah – 0.2 Million USD
Ramesh Powar – 0.18 Million USD
Thisara Perera – 0.08 Million USD
Steven O’Keefe – 0.02 Million USD
Deepak Chougule
Raiphy Vincent Gomez
Tanmay Srivastava
Sushant Marathe
Kedar Jadhav
Balachandra Akhil
KPXI
Adam Gilchrist(Captain)
Shaun Marsh
David Hussey
Ryan Harris
Nathan Rimmington
Dmitri Mascarenhas
Stuart Broad
Dinesh Karthik
Praveen Kumar
Piyush Chawla
Abhishek Nayar
Mandeep Singh
Amit Yadav
MUMBAI
Sachin Tendulkar (RT)
Harbhajan Singh (RT)
Kieron Pollard (RT)
Lasith Malinga (RT)
Rohit Sharma – 2.0 Million
Andrew Symonds – 0.85 Million
Munaf Patel – 0.7 Million
Davy Jacobs – 0.19 Million
Clint McKay – 0.11 Million
James Franklin – 0.1 Million
Moises Henriques – 0.05 Million
Aiden Blizzard – 0.02 Million
Ambati Rayudu
T Suman
R Sathish
Aditya Tare
Ali Mortaza
Dhawal Kulkarni
DDD
Virender Sehwag
Irfan Pathan – 1.9 Million USD
David Warner – 0.75 Million USD
Umesh Yadav – 0.75 Million USD
Venugopal Rao – 0.75 Million USD
Morne Morkel – 0.475 Million USD
Ashok Dinda – 0.375 Million USD
James Hopes – 0.35 Million USD
Aaron Finch – 0.3 Million USD
Naman Ojha – 0.27 Million USD
Ajit Agarkar – 0.21 Million USD
Matthew Wade – 0.1 Million USD
Colin Ingram – 0.1 Million USD
Andrew McDonald – 0.08 Million USD
Roelof van der Merwe – 0.05 Million
Travis Birt – 0.02 Million USD
Robert Frylinck – 0.02 Million USD
Unmukt Chand
RCB
Virat Kohli (retained)
Saurabh Tiwary – 1.6 Million USD
AB de Villiers – 1.1 Million USD
Zaheer Khan – 0.9 Million USD
Cheteswar Pujara – 0.7 Million USD
Tilakratne Dilshan – 0.65 Million
Dirk Nannes – 0.65 Million
Daniel Vettori – 0.55 Million USD
Abhimanyu Mithun – 0.26 Million USD
Charl Langeveldt – 0.14 Million USD
Mohammad Kaif – 0.14
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i am actually a big fan of IPL...i think standard of matches is usually pretty high.....unfortunately, dont follow it too closely except some key matches but i love the concept...IPL will do wonders for young indian cricketers in coming years...
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i am actually a big fan of IPL...i think standard of matches is usually pretty high.....unfortunately, dont follow it too closely except some key matches but i love the concept...IPL will do wonders for young indian cricketers in coming years...
Same here. I do not/am not able to follow matches too closely except for Cricinfo and highlights on Willow TV, but I definitely feel that it would benefit the participating cricketers bothe monetarily and also provide useful practice playing alongside cricketers who might be on opposing teams otherwise.
Don't know how many here know that Dhoni's decision to come up the order in the WC final was partly due to the fact that he had played alongside Murali as part of the Chennai Super Kings squad and was a lot more comfortable playing him that someone like Yuvi or Raina might have been. And the rest is history, as they say...:)
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Same here. I do not/am not able to follow matches too closely except for Cricinfo and highlights on Willow TV, but I definitely feel that it would benefit the participating cricketers bothe monetarily and also provide useful practice playing alongside cricketers who might be on opposing teams otherwise.
Don't know how many here know that Dhoni's decision to come up the order in the WC final was partly due to the fact that he had played alongside Murali as part of the Chennai Super Kings squad and was a lot more comfortable playing him that someone like Yuvi or Raina might have been. And the rest is history, as they say...:)
yeah he said that in the interview....i am sure as chennai's keeper, dhoni knew exactly murlai's hand position and hence it was easier for him to read his doosra as well as traditional off spin...
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yeah he said that in the interview....i am sure as chennai's keeper, dhoni knew exactly murlai's hand position and hence it was easier for him to read his doosra as well as traditional off spin...
Yes, these are the hidden benefits of playing IPL :D
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^ good points.. it always gives young players a lot of exposure of playing
1) big games
2) infront of huge crowds
3) again some (not all ofcourse) ACTUAL ex and current national players
Players like Kohli and Raina have so much confidence now playing international games.
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The next few years are going to be crucial for Indian cricket as players like Sachin, Zaheer, Bhajji, Sehwag either retire or take a background role. I personally feel that IPL is better at producing cricketers who can play ODIs and T20s at the international level much better than domestic tournaments like Ranji trophy & Duleep trophy can.
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Let me be the first one to say that despite being an ardent cricket fan, I have not followed a single IPL game yet....honest!! I do not follow English Premier League (football) either
Neither have I so far. But this year I may see what it is all about.
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player isnt it good to see cricket between neutral countries when the game is good? i enjoyed england vs ireland, aus vs pak, sa vs nz in the WC.
my team is delhi but many of the players i like from various countries play in other teams too... i dont SUPPORT any team very strongly .... but there are some good games and some good performances pretty often!
In the old days, Delhi was really Delhi, Madras was really Madras, and Bombay was Bombay. You could tell just from the player names who played for whom. Sivaramakrishnan - no doubt from Madras, Shivalkar no doubt from Bombay etc. Now it is too muddy - no idea who plays for whom.