IPL: something for everyone
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"It's cricket in the Ferrari lane. It is a revolution that has challenged the orthodox style of cricket, to carve a niche for itself," says former cricketer and commentator Navjot Singh Sidhu, who could well have fashioned himself as one of those Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 stars. The fifth season of the DLF Indian Premier League-which started on 5 April-may be struggling to garner viewership and television ratings but it is nonetheless the closest we have to a cricket carnival, with glamour, cricket stars, celebrities on the sidelines, huge amounts of money, and some peculiar cricketing challenges. It has legends of the sport like Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly continuing to dream on a cricket pitch after wearing out their national colours; there are young boys struggling to find a place in the Indian squad; sidelined men waiting in the wings to spring yet another comeback; and also-rans....
Musings of Melbourne Park
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Don't cry Andy. You are just 22. The Australian Open in my opinion is probably the most under-rated of the four Grand Slams (my apologies to the Flushing Meadows). I guess the Melbourne Park should garner more fans purely because it's the first Slam of the year and more importantly it somehow consistently throws up newer and unseeded players in the last four atleast. However great my job description sounds, it does end up being quite difficult to be able to catch all the action or even most of it (atleast in the initial stages). But I did end up watching some of Australian Open 2010. The good part is, it's official (after yet another Slam) that a player like Roger Federer is one of those few sportspersons who arrive once in a lifetime. We are all pretty sure now that no other generation will see....
More about Rupha Ramani
Rupha's passion for journalism started at a young age - in fact at 13 when an article she had written got published in 'The Hindu'. Though she always love saying that this profession has chosen her. It did too, right from the day she stepped into CNN IBN in 2006. An English graduate at Stella Maris and a memorable year at Asian College of Journalism (Chennai) where she passed out as the Best Student in Broadcast Journalism helped her find her feet in the 'big bad world'. Sport is something that is quite innate. Rupha has been an athlete and was a national-level tennis player for quite some time. But she thinks she was meant to write and talk about sport and sporting achievements. She says she is fortunate enough to travel to places like Nottingham and Cape Town (to name a few) to watch and cover cricket. Rupha anchors the morning bulletins and has done a few half-hour shows on tennis. Apart from following sports and news, she loves reading, writing, hanging out with her friends, catching a movie, cooking (surprisingly).. And what if she had not been a journalist...? Quite simple. She would have been a singer :)Recent Posts
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