Day-1

IPL 2 is off to a flying start.

• The playing conditions in South Africa are different. Not batsman-friendly like ours...
• The finalists of the last edition have been defeated ! That is beauty of cricket!
• The masters had a great day - Sachin, Rahul and Kumble. While the first two got the man-of-the match awards, Kumble missed it narrowly, after a 5-wicket haul !
• For all those proud owners of the teams it would be a humbling experience. As AJ said in NDTV, class is always permenant ( referring to another master of the art, Warne)
• Sachin got the maximum applause when Ravi Shastri was introducing the captains. We want Indian greats, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly to be the captain of these teams. It is afterall Indian premier league.

Fortunately the matches took place first, then the speech/'weech' as part of opening ceremony....
I could conveniently switch channel and listen to AJ

PS : I don't want KKR Jersey, so I refuse to participate in their contest on NDTV.