IPL, its way...

If you think I am going to write about Shane Warne, you are wrong. This picture looked different and thought it would suit my title at one point i.e. IPL.

I am looking forward to watch, atleast the highlights of IPL this year. With IPL around the corner, some form of news comes surprising everyday. Kaif being ruled out, my favorite Laxman paving his path to Gilli, 'The Wall' Dravid giving his role to Pietersen (another favorite of mine ;)), Ganguly's captaincy has been knocked out and Mccullum being appointed as captain of KKR and the big controversial debate of multiple captaincy concept put forward by John Buchanan, venue changed from India to SAfrica...all these tells me that this year's edition of IPL is going to be bit different than last year's, especially in terms of fans support. It would have been great if it was held in India. And I have already charted out my top 3 favorites for the first 3 places of this shorter version of game this year. Fingers crossed :)

Photo courtesy: Sify.com

My Team

Am out of touch from Cricket for a while and thought this would help me to revive. With the first test against the mighty Oz around the corner, if someone asks me (actually Sify did before the entire hoi polloi:)) what would be my choice of team for both the long and short version of the game, my answer would be this:

Saurav Ganguly
Virendra Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
M S Dhoni (C/WK)
S Badrinath
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Yuvraj Singh
Irfan Pathan
Zaheer Khan
Harbhajan Singh
Piyush Chawla

The reason behind choosing this set is I would love to see a blend of oldies, the goldies with a plethora of experience and the youngsters with josh and passion. With MSD's management techinques, three S's experience (Sach, Saurav and Sehwag), the allrounder attitude of Yuvi, Batting techinques of Raina, Gambhir and Badri, Swingers of Zaheer and Irfy, Spinning sense of Bhajji and Piyush - I guess this would make it a 'wholesome' team.

Will the actual team drive the Oz crazy? Will they create a history? Let's wait n watch!