With the third edition of the Indian Premier League(IPL) entering the stage of grand finale amidst all the high-voltage controversies and allegations, the evening of April 23 witnessed the presentation of the first ever IPL Awards. The glittering ceremony which took place at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai was embarked by the presence of the best from the world of entertainment and sports. However, strengthening the reports of the BCCI-Modi spat, the bigwigs of the BCCI gave a skip to the event. The BCCI top brass including the BCCI President Shashank Manohar and the Secretary N Srinivasan along with the IPL Vice-chairman Niranjan Shah remained absent from the Sahara Indian Premier League Awards function. Those who marked their attendance at the event were the IPL Governing Council member Sunil Gavaskar and former BCCI President Inderjit Singh Bindra who is the Principal Advisor to the International Cricket Council (ICC). Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who turns 37 this Saturday, grabbed the viewers’ choice award for the Best Captain for turning out to be a superb captain leading from the front and taking his team, the Mumbai Indians, through to the finals of the IPL tournament for the first time in the last three years. He also won the award for the Best Batsman, being the highest run scorer in this season of the League, though he gave a miss to the event along with the Chennai Super Kings skipper M.S.Dhoni. Pragyan Ojha received the award for the Best Bowler while Suresh Raina took away the award for the Best Fielder in the viewers’ choice category. Keiron Pollard of Mumbai Indians, who happens to be the costliest player of his team in this year's auction, was adjudged the Best Debutant performer for the season by the jury. … [Read more...]
IPL 2010 Awards on April 23
From this year onwards, best performers in IPL tournament will receive awards and organisers want to conduct this annual award ceremony in the range of Oscars. Many celebrities from Bollywood and cricket will attend this prestigious function. There will be critic’s choice awards and jury awards. IPL 2010 Awards ceremony: Hosts: Shahrukh Khan & Karan Johar Location: Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. Programme is live on: Colors TV Channel Date: April 23 Number of awards: 22 categories Awards jury: Sunil Gavaskar, Lalit Modi, Brian Lara, Javagal Srinath, Simon Taufel and Harsha Bhogle. Viewers’ choice awards: Visit IPL awards site to pick your favourite players. Site address: http://www.iplawards.com/ Who is the leader? Leader is the one who takes responsibility for failures and share success with team. Shahrukh Khan showed leadership qualities by taking full responsibility for the failure of Kolkata Knight Riders. Ganguly should learn lesson from Shahrukh on taking responsibility. It is sad to see one of India's best captains in such a state. Kolkata has wonderful players but lack of cohesion and lack of strategic leadership are main reasons for its failures in IPL T20 tournament. A good leader can turnaround this team in IPL 2001. Kolkata fans are passionate cricket lovers but this team is testing their patience levels. … [Read more...]
Awards
IPL Awards 2010 IPL Jury awards: 1. Best Batsman: Sachin Tendulkar (Mumbai Indian) 2. Best Bowler: Pragyan Ojha (Deccan Chargers) 3. Best Fielder: A.B. de Villiers (Delhi Daredevils) 4. Best stadium: Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bangalore) 5. Most consistent performer: Jacques Kallis (Royal Challengers) 6. Most dramatic performance: Harbhajan Singh (Mumbai Indians) 7. Best IPL Debu: Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians) 8. Best IPL stadium experience: DY Patil Stadium (Navi Mumbai) 9. Breakthrough Performances: 2008: Brendon McCullum (Kolkata Knight Riders) 2009: Anil Kumble (Royal Challengers Bangalore) Viewer's choice awards: 1. Best Batsman: Sachin Tendulkar 2. Best Bowler: Pragyan Ojha 3. Best Fielder: Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings) 4. Best Captain: Sachin Tendulkar 5. Best Commentator: Ravi Shastri 6. Best Catch: David Hussey (Kolkata Knight Riders) 7. Most stylish player: Robin Uthappa (Royal Challengers) 8. Most fan friendly cricketer: Adam Gilchrist (Deccan Chargers) Statistical awards: 1. Fastest century: Yusuf Pathan (Rajasthan Royals) 2. Most economical bowler: R. A shwin (Chennai Super Kings) 3. Maximum runs scored in fours and sixers: Virender Sehwag (Delhi Daredevils) Special awards: 1. Choice of IPL Captains: Indian cricket legend whom they want in their team: Kapil Dev. IPL 2010 awards function will be held at Grand Hyatt, … [Read more...]
Analysis of IPL captains
Captains played a very crucial role in changing the fortunes of their IPL teams. Captains like Shane Warne and Dhoni inspired their teams with their leadership qualities while Dravid and Laxman buckled under pressure with poor batting and unimaginative captaincy. Unlike Dravid, Laxman at least sacrificed money and iconic status. Analysis of Indian Premier League captains: 1. Shane Warne: He is the coach, captain, magician, God, motivator and saviour for underdogs Jaipur. He inspired young Jaipur team to sensational victories. 2. MS Dhoni: Ice Man Dhoni showed his immense potential against Bangalore with his hard hitting and cool captaincy. Indian cricket is in the safe hands of this “Ice Man”. We will know his real potential in the coming matches where Chennai will miss the services of Mathew Hayden, Michael Hussey and Jacob Oram. Can he inspire his team like Warne? 3. Virender Sehwag: One superb inning against Hyderabad and nothing else. 4. Yuvraj Singh: He is playing consistently well in all the Mohali IPL matches. But team lost some matches due to bad selection and unsettled batting order. Indian vice-captain need to prove his captaincy skills. 5. Sourav Ganguly: He is an inspirational leader but poor batsman. Kolkata fans love the passionate combination of Sourav-Shahrukh but Ganguly needs to score runs. 6. Rahul Dravid: Why is he playing in this tournament? What can he do in Twenty20 games? He should sit at home and watch matches. Poor leader but good man. 7. VVS Laxman: You should pick your best players to win tight Twenty20 games. You can’t bat; you can’t see potential in young men; you can’t take bold innovate decisions; you can’t field; you can’t say no … [Read more...]
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