To next year, and the trophy

I must say I am impressed with my restraint; didn't do a single cricket related post in the first 50 days. It was tough to ignore cricket with the IPL T20 tournament going on for 45 of those 50 days, but I did it! Now that the tournament is over, these guards (!) at Chepauk stadium (the M.A.Chidambaram stadium at Chepauk, more properly) will go away and folks all over India will find something to do between 7 and 11 in the evenings. (Is it likely that the walls around the stadium will stay the Super Kings yellow?)

I took a lot of flak with my predictions; had said that Chennai will beat Deccan Chargers to reach the semi finals, will beat Kings XI Punjab to reach the finals and will then lose to Rajasthan Royals. Strangely, few debated the last part, until yesterday - such unbelievers, to not know that Chennai will reach the finals! And then they accuse me of not supporting my team - hrrumph!!

No, it is too early for next year's predictions. I have no idea which other team will be in the final. But the trophy, it will be brought to Chennai!


PS: If you do not know what the IPL T20 tournament was all about, you are lucky! But if you insist on knowing, here's the Wikipedia entry about cricket.