IPL starts with a blast!!!

The latest trend that has been set in cricket is twenty20. This new format has saw a lot of fans as it is a short and an exciting format of the game. Recently Kapil Dev's ICL had seen a few absorbing series. It was now the turn of the world's richest board BCCI to kick off with its own IPL(Indian Premier League). When it comes to BCCI we know that there is a lot of money revolving around them. So it was expected that this series will be well organized. As expected the inaugral ceremony of IPL was very grand!!! There were dancers from various parts of the country, who performed with a lot of grace. Gymnasts went about swinging about in the air, which made the crowd go mad.. Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy gave their performances which was the perfect kick start needed.. The captains made their pledges which was then followed by an enthralling match.



It was Kolkata vs Bangalore, maybe Rahul vs Dada or Malya vs SRK would be fitting. Rahul won the toss and elected to field. Kolkata came into bat with NewZealand wicket keeper McCullum and captain Dada. Right from the first ball the fire was set. Shots started blazing from the bats of McCullum. On the other end Dada found it hard to combat the swing bowling of Praveen Kumar and Zaheer. Eventually Dada was out and Ponting joined in to give company to McCullum. Fearless McCullum played the innings of his life which made Chinnasamy Stadium go ablaze.
His innings of 158 of 73 balls was the best by any batsman in this format of the game. This innings of his consisted of 10 fours and 13 huge sixes. Bangalore bowlers suffered heavy pounding in the hands of McCullum. With useful contributions from Ponting and Hussey the Knight Riders set a target of 223. It was the turn of Royal Challengers to bat. Ishant and Dinda were too good and broke the back of the Royal Challengers batting. With Dravid departing in the very second over none of the Bangalore batsman could get in. Agarkar took 3 wickets while Ganguly chipped in with 2. Vijay Malya's Royal Challengers had no answer to SRK's Knight Riders. They were bundled out for a meager 82 giving a 140 run win to the Knight Riders. McCullum was undoubtedly the man of the match.