It’s time for the second season of Indian Premier League (IPL) to start and yesterday only we could see players round the world getting auctioned like vintages. Well someone rightly said ‘Yeh India ki Cricket hai’. And why not, if a month or two can fetch a million or two dollars along with future contracts and limelight, it’s what the future generation should make a target. Don’t get surprised if in the coming years you see a cricket coaching centre named ‘T-20 tutorial’. Moreover bollywood has decided to plunge in the league finding it a better investment zone than the slow paced share market. Yesterday only we found team Mohali’s ‘malkin’ actress Preity Zinta, Kolkata’s Juhi Chawla and new addition in the hot list lanky Shilpa Shetty with thier respective partners in the bidding hotseat. And the biggest part of the show was a bid on young Bangladeshi Mashrafe Mortaza. The team Knight riders had to pay an unexpected $600,000 to get a catch of him. The costliest bid was England’s former captainAndrew Flintoff, bought by team Chennai at $ 1.55 million. He was followed by Kevin Pietersen (again 1.55 million), Duminy, Henderson, Mortaza and many more. Quite surprizingly the day’s total bid ammount summed up to 37 Cr INR. So as a bottom line ‘ Cricket ka jadoo chal gaya’ and in India nothing rule like cricket does.
