Twenty 20

The recent IPL T20 series in India proved to be too successful. Though the series means to be successful but the term successful in this term refer to success in terms of money. The huge amount of money that summed up proved the success of the tournament.

But my question here is... Was this a successful cricket tournament like any other cricket
tournament? Or is it the starting of the degradation of GENTLEMAN'S GAME.

It is money and only money that ruled the game, right from the start to the end of the
tournament. Let me also focus on the player of the tournament. All the players almost did well in the tournament and most of them also made up to the current Indian team because of the jubiliant performance in the IPL T20.

The main reasons behind the good performances is hard work definately and the other things which added to it were the no pressure cooker situation, as they were prepaid, so no issue of making a performance, to make a mark and secondly the small over game which doesn't require any patience (other wise the game is so called is of patience).

My orthodoxy is not at all against the money spent on the tournment and the profit generated but the degradation of the cricket happing up. The big example of it is Rahul dravid (the best technical batsman that India has ever produced) who was the most critizied in the tournament.

I severly critize this new gentlemen's game called Twenty 20, driven by money and just by money.

Sachin, Sourav and Dravid : The backbone of Indian team

The recent victoy of India in Twenty20 champion ship without the trio (Sourav, Sachin and Dravind) proved great for the India and people started believing that the time has come where the trio should sit back and give the chance to the young guns of India.

But immediately after the Twenty20 series, the Future Cup- series between India and Australia of 7 one dayers turned out a washout for India even with the trio. It is to be believed that the young guns are not as comfortable with the trio as they were without them in Twenty20 and showed greater enthusiasm and team spirit there as compared in the Future cup.

My question here is that there is a great deal of difference between 20 and 50 overs match and considering the Twenty20 team fit for the 50 over match by surpassing the trio out is non-sense. Twenty20 match demands aggression, passion, dynamism a lot and opposed to it, the 50 over game demands patience, temperament and experience which the young guns lack. Now if you consider the trio unfit for one-day internationals and thinking of brushing them aside, I think that could be one of the black chapters in the history of Indian cricket.