IPL Season 3

The final curtains have been drawn for the IPL season 3 .Modi has also lisped a "brave heart" speech with trembling hands moments before he was ousted as the IPL Commission"err". The stable teams members will be again put under auctions this year.
Next year we will see a different demography to all the teams adding to the extra 2 teams. Pune franchise has gone ahead in naming it league as warriors (Sahara Pune Warriors). Kochi probably will stay. We will have to wait and watch. Meanwhile as we analyse the performances of the all the sides , we will see a method emerging out of madness in the way T20 is played nowadays. Some of the marked changes from IPL 1 to IPL 3 were.

1.) Spinners: There is a growing dependence of spinner. Spinner have evolved to be force to reckon with. This season, 4 out of top 5 wicket takers were spinner. Kumble boasted of the best economy rate for majority of tournament. R Ashwin was the regular opening bowler. And Prgyan Ojha ended with the purple cap.

2.) Return of classic cricketing shots: the flat bat shots existed but classic cricketing shots counted for majority of runs scored in this IPL. The people scoring them were regular test cricketers, Sachin, Kallis, Saurav, Dravid, KP , Murali Vijay.

3.) Brute force is good in short term: There was a tactical use of brute force instead of using it through out the match. MI tried to over do this by sending KP (Pollard) late which resulted in their loss. But this had worked for them for majority of the tournament. Yousuf has been thoroughly read by all teams and he is prey to short ball. He could not score in the second half of the season.

4.) Innovation: The shot making has evolved. Now we have new shots like the Dilshan Scoop and KP's Switch hit which is also added new variety to the armory of the batsman. In bowling, we have the Dilhara's slow bouncers, Ashwin's carron ball etc. And in equipments, we have the Haydos mighty mongoose bat which showed its prowess in their league match against Delhi.

The next season will see a new set of players for each team. It will decide the allegiance for the floater public like me whose cities do not have IPL team. Last 3 years had my affinity towards RCB as most of my Idols like Dravid, Kallis were playing for it.

Wishing for a grand IPL 4 !!!! As Gilchrist, Tendulkars, Dravid have comfirmed to be Back.......Till then rooting for RCB for CLT20 at South Africe.