IPL 3.0 At the place where it belongs

IPL 3.0 the 3rd edition of the lucrative, cash rich and widely watched domestic tournament in whole of the cricket community. It is by far the best display of domestic tournament, compare it with the English county T20, Standard bank T20 if i am not wrong in South Africa or even the Big Bash in Australia. The high intensity, people showing interest or the cash involved in it, IPL is the biggest. Last year around the tournament was shifted to the Rainbow Nation South Africa. Although the IPL at South Africa was a success compared to the strength of crowd filling in the stadium and watching every match of another countries tournament, it lacked the flair and passion which is involved with the first Indian Premier League held at its own soil. Close matches where not close enough, big shorts where not big enough, passion of the players was not good enough. Even cricket fanatics like me lost the interest of the IPL 2 season, mainly because of the lack of passion among people of South Africa. There is no mistake on the people, how can a person form Durban, Cape town or New lands be passionate about CSK, DC, MI's,DD,KKR, RR, RC and KIXP?

This time around the IPL 3.0 is back where it belongs, the home turf is the home game and passion runs high so does the thrills of playing in front of the home and away crowds. I still remember some of my friends cheering for Sewag when he blasted the way to a 91 in Chennai and see Warne been taken to cleaners by the talented Morkel. We cherished every moment of the IPL. We where passionate about CSK, but we were also not so bad not cherish our heroes game's to. This is as IPL is all about, sadly for me i am going to miss this year’s edition as i am out of the country.

The build up IPL 3.0 is not off to a great start, silly politicians trying to move a vote bank out of the Australian player for an issue which they have no proper idea about. The politics about a separate state which in turn caused the opening ceremony to be changed from Hyderabad to Mumbai. The security issues which are to be foreseen by the state police and central forces too, players giving out statements in confidence about their security in the country and the PAK players issue.

Then came the IPL 3.0 Ad, the best work of putting a bunch of clips into a promo. The way it is portrayed is how the whole tournament is all about, A dream made into reality. March 12^th let the excitement begin.