Fake IPL Player: A Great Success

Like any other Indian, I too am crazy about cricket and get involved with it passionately. IPL has been a great revolution in the game. With session 2, IPL as a concept is getting matured and as a format definitely making it's place to replace, the now favorite, one day format.

With all other things on one side, the one thing which I personally admired,liked and followed to every bit of detail is the blogs written by our fakey, the Fake IPL Player. Man, I must say, the man has the vision, the style, the ability or write and dramatize things, the ability to articulate and build stories and what not. I am all praise for the man behind Fake IPL Player. I don't really care whether it was a cricketer who was a part of KKR team, a journalist who was following the team, a friend of someone who was a part of KKR administration or wahtever. The entire series of Fake IPL player was well conceptualized, nicely co-ordinated and well written. There could be questions about the indentity of the person and we donot know whether it was a player faking or a faking player but at no point of time we can question or doubt the facts that were mentioned in the entire series of the blog.

I have followed the entire series of Fake IPL Player bit by bit, detail by detail and doubted the author lot of times and thought of digging out details on internet to find out who could be behind this but then I thought, I should rather enjoy and appreciate this entire fun from outside.

And finally after watching the shadow video of Fake IPL player and hearing the sound of his voice, I could not stop my self but write a few lines about him, as a gesture of appreciation. This is just to tell the fakey (Fake IPL Player) that how much I appreciated and admired him all throughout the series. If You happen to read this blog fake, do drop a comment to me just to confirm that you have got that message.

Long Live our Fake IPL Player.

Pakistan players ruled out of IPL

Pakistan players will not feature in the second edition of the Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has confirmed.

Eleven Pakistan players who participated in the IPL last year while five more had been included on a list of over 100 players drawn up for an auction ahead of this year`s tournament. But Pakistan's Foreign Office, however, refused to grant permission to players to travel to India due to deteriorating diplomatic and political ties between the countries.

"We have informed the IPL and the Board of Control for Cricket in India of the Pakistan's government's decision not to allow players to travel to India for the IPL," Pakistan Cricket Board's chief operating officer Saleem Altaf said.

The five players included for Friday's auction were removed from the list, which was trimmed down to just 43 players overall.

"The Pakistan Cricket Board has informed us that no Pakistan players will be allowed to play in the IPL," Modi confirmed.

"This is something which is beyond our control."

The majority of Pakistan's players who had participated in the first edition have three-year contracts in place with the IPL.

Champions Rajasthan Royals will be the hardest hit as they will now be without left-arm seamer Sohail Tanvir, the highest wicket-taker in the Twenty20 competition last year with 21.

The Jaipur-based team have two other Pakistan players in their ranks, while Kolkata Knight Riders have the maximum number of four.

But the Pakistan's government's decision also means the IPL franchisees will not have to pay these players.