Lively cricket!
As Shoaib Akhter picked up the wicket of the ace (Indian) batsmen Virender Shehwag and Gautam Gambhir, the entire Eden-Garden crowd burst into a roar, vociferously cheering a distant glimpse of victory. Perhaps, for the first time in their lives the crazy cricket lovers of Calcutta applauded the triumphs of the nightmarish Pakistani fast bowler. Subsequently, megastar SRK was seen to be dancing to celebrate the crucial turn of the match. No, I'm not depicting a bizarre dream sequence. DLF IPL has successfully obliterated the fragile boundary that existed between the facts and fantasies of the cricketing world. In this groundbreaking competition we have witnessed the glorious return of legends like Shane Warne, Pollock, Glen McGrath, and Gilchrist, as if they have been reincarnated to represent this exciting version of cricket, we have also seen world-class cricketers of the same national squad aggressively battling against each other, and we have seen the gracious intermingling of cricket and the glamorous world of Bollywood. I think DLF IPL is a creative concept that's not only promoting the prospect of Twenty-Twenty cricket but it's also providing an opportunity to the international cricketers to get used to this relatively new format of the game. At the same time, the tournament is entertaining the cricket lovers around the world to a great extent.
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