And the Challengers thrash the Royals

And the Challengers thrash the Royals......Very unconventional to the IPL1. Bangalore Royal Challengers have won the second match of IPL2. No doubt, credit goes to Kumble and Dravid. A magnificent finsih by Kumble gave Rajasthan Royals a worst nightmare. What an amazing spell he bowled. 5 runs for 5 wickets in 20-20....Really rarest of the rare performance in 20 over cricket. Dravid had given a beautiful hook with his howly innining of 66 runs.........Wake up Rajasthan Royals!!!
Anyways the bet was in favour of RCB with 7:5 against RR. The reason might have been inclusion of Pieterson...whatever, a first day finished with 2 good matches. Shane Warne must be watching Dravid's huge six in his dreams......good Night!!!!!!

Mumbai Indians set a road map

Sachin Tendulkar proved his being one of the top batsmen of all times and has set the roadmap for Mumbai Indians in IPL season 2. A 19 run win in the first match has made Mumbai Indians the team to win first match of tournament. A not out performance by Tendulkar and a thrilling and paced inning by Abhishek Nayar set the mood of the game.
Inspite of Hayden's good knock Chennai Super Kings couldn't save their crown. I always doubt the play of Joginder Sharma and again he proved it at the end.
Whatever heck it might e....I just lost my first bet of IPL....
Even though the bet market was favoring CSK as I did with 10:8 against MI, but that's what betting is for.
Let's focus on what comes and believe my luck more than the analysis I tried to do for betting.....Happy betting!!!!

Betting the first match

Still 40 minutes to go.....Hope to have a tough match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians.......The bet is simple...Who will win this match?
I've just 10 minutes to analyze and bet on a team as the rules say..I can bet only half an hour before the match starts.....Should Sachin and Jayasurya make the first win of IPL or Dhoni and his boys taste the victory?
I love Sachin and appeciate Jayasurya's batting...but still I feel Dhoni is the best captain and has given India a tremendous wins over last couple of years.......confused a lot...

Meanwhile This time on Fourth Umpire Gaurav(Challel-V VJ) is involved heart throb Mandira. Mandira is not clad in Sari this time but something just to cover her parts.....leave it to her and focus on my betting......

OK done, I've decided to go for Dhoni and his team.....En Rascala, mind it...

Betting Rules

I believe in Pursuit of Happiness.......and the happiness goes along with winning most of the times. We too with a small team decided to live the fun....the fun of a life time....Entering the virtual bet bazaar. We thought not to deal with money at hands and live with the point systems and finally the points convert into a all time high party celebrations by the losers in bet bazaar....

Here under we went ahead to create rules for playing in bet bazaar. Rules came out exciting with more suggestions and finally came live 5 days ahead of the gala.

We decide to have 3 kinds of bets : Premium (50 point), Golden (75 points) and platinum (100 points).
Settlement of the points to be done only after the tournament.
Every market player has to take part in at least 50% of all the bets (smart idea to avoid the cash flow...sorry points flow)
Bets get expired half an hour ahead of the game start.
Platinum bets will be few but mandatory. Non players will be considered lost by default.

So were the rules decided and the game started......No bargaining or discounts available.

Mother of all Bets

Fun is all around and so the excitement. Some players are in tension and so are the team owners. Players are excited, nervous and agitated to no extent. Lots of changes from IPL season 1 to season 2. Some top performers out of IPL 2 and a no home ground to any players except South Africans. No players from Pakistan involved, some players injured and changes in captaincy. So this time it seems to be more breath taking tournament......

And our first grand bet goes to the end of tournament....surprised?
Simple, our biggest bet - Who is going to win the IPL season 2?
A lot of analysis is going on....but T-20 is never predictable. One over can change the whole theme..
So which teams gets more points to bet for?

Should it be Rajasthan Royals again? Will team miss the season 1 star Sohail Tanveer? Will Shane Warne spin his magic again? Is Shaun Tait ready for his sheer performance?

Or is it going to be the last season Finalist Chennai SuperKings?
Will Dhoni and his team do it this time? Is the charismatic captain ready to take the trophy this time?

Delhi Daredevils too seems to be a balanced team...but will the balance be maintained in the play as well....Is Sehwag ready to hit madly with Gambhir?

Bangalore Royal Challengers too seem ready with their new in form captain Pieterson...also the most expensive player of this season.....It's no more a test team now...

Knight Riders get their new captain in McCullam...Will Dada come out of captaincy pressure (as per SRK) and make crowd dance with his long hits....

Is Mumbai Indians going to be the best along with their best players ....Sachin and Jayasurya..Will Jayasurya maintain the same rhythm and take the lead to a win...?

Is Yuvraj all set with Pretty(Preity) to mesmerize the crowd with his 6 sixes in 6 balls again?
Will SriSanth make the game more exciting with his bubbly actions?

And last but not the least Deccan Chargers..supposedly the best team of IPL-1 at the beginning and actually the worst proven despite the best players ... Will Gilly make a difference as a captain? Will Symonds make a mark on IPL season 2?

So all the cheer is goining to start in lil bit time........
But who do you think is going to win IPL season 2? keep guessing and keep betting....59 more matches and results are over...

IPL, A Grand Festival...

It's truly said that Indian Premiere league is a grand festival. It's a carnival where the top notch icons of various fields are appointed for a diligent fun. First season of IPL was a grand success in India and across boundaries. Conducting the second season has been a master work in it and has shown the true motive of "The show must go on". Getting a no-no from the democratic government due to clashes with election schedule might have put most people under vexation..but there was one guy and his team who didn't accept to lose. Mr Lalit Modi came out as a Mesiha to the cricket and business world. Making South Africa ready to host such a grand event in just 3 weeks has been a piece of learning for the achievers.
So here goes the learning and the fun begins....Today 18th April registers itself as a golden date in League. It's 12:20 PM in India and I'm eagerly waiting for the season to start. At all this is for the first time in history of sports ....what is that?
Premiere League of one country in some other continent...and
For the first time in History...I'm going to bet in the whole season...really exciting...
Let's play on and say - "Jai Ho...."