IPL, The Indian Premier League, we all know the elaboration and interesting is the fact that most of us when we view it in the doors of our mind, we view of a tournament, a grand programme of cricket festival all across a big nation, millions in exact number coming out of houses with banners and festoons, placards and stickers at body parts.
If someone points it as a fact of madness in India,he hasn't outspoken.

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IPL : The Billion's Choice.

To me IPL is a cricketing carnival where degree of happening something epic is usual,dramas's are normal and breaking of records are quite casual. BCCI has hosted quite more then 12 of editions and it had had a era of brilliance, media coverage and the people who loved more then any part of it. If anyone views it as a means of business and an ordinary fan opining as a great source of entertainment,both are fundamentally correct.

But I am not going to tell today that IPL has so many smart things, rather today's blog would be about a certain things where I thing more and more disputes would come and people would have multidirectional judgments, but each of them would be correct to their point, so its better to keep away from the arguments.

Recently, a famous Indian television took an interview of the renowned icon of their cricket, who played a big part to take their cricket to the present stage, captained national team and scored more than 70+ tons in all formats of the game and heading towards accomplishing a few things that the Sachin Tendulkar had, Virat Kohli who succeeded winning lot of major titles.

The context of his interview was about to make a judgment of who would be the best batter according to him played cricket in IPl. There were a long list of options and its not a surprise that in IPL all the efficient and the most striking, talented and versatile players only get chance to compete. The conditional parameter of having 4 overseas player in a single team is also a factor for limited players to have chance to get on the field.

ABC Of Cricket Shots - ABD.

Out of surprise that he didnt mention one of those local players who deserved to win in that case, but he selected the name of a protean superstar, who currently holds the crown of scoring the fastest ton in any International format of the game, mr.360, one of my favourite and the humblest cricketer I came across - he is none other than AB De Villiers. Yes, VK selected ABD for the place of *greatest batter in IPL history.

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Well,there are many reasons for being so and those of you are familiar watching him make big strokes, sensing the bowlers attitude and arm swing, the hand and eye co-ordination, assuming the length of the ball and hitting it both elegantly and muscularly, scoring from all areas of the park, efficient in slogging the bowl to such degree that right away he hit a bowl,anybody could predict its not going to be a mishit and reach to destination - the boundary.

I personally got my chances to have a sight of his batting,but when you are on stadium ; a cricketing stroke is made and the sound of the hit, ball flying and the body language of the batter, he had all the things in him. It was also popular that, his own story reflected that once upon a time, in the very early days of his career, he was a golf player, he played baseball too and the hitting practices made him to the current stages he reached and of course he worked hard for that too!

To me his strength was picking the length of the ball early and smashing it to sky, very swift in his approach and putting effort to the sail of the six, all within a few seconds and all that a bowler could do is to remain stunned as if ABD could know beforehand where he is placing that. Such a talent he was and it would always be a regret - that South Africa couldn’t handle him a national trophy! So sad 😕

The Slinging Sensation.

The second question was to select the best bowler of the IPL season and it was undoubtedly the man with an awkard and unconventional bowling style, the pure horizontal slinger who used to release the ball a meter away from the umpires body line, almost reaching the batters territory with evermost wide angle. He was none other than, Sri Lanka's living legend- Lasith Malinga.

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I think, there werent much of the debate where his bowling action spared to be discussed, it was a great mystery for any batter to know how he manipulates such action and posit the ball to the same length, over and over again,repeatedly choking the batter with whole lot of unplayable yorkers.
4 consecutive balls and 4 bold out could be an example how his yorkers were and the lethal effect it had on bowlers. So elegant a bowler he was!

May,the two bowlers legacy be intact decades after decades and the youngsters learn from them and take the noble game, cricket to the next stage, with pride and valour.

Thanks So Much, 💐🏏🏆