Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Forget IPL....here comes KPL

When the whole of India was going gaga over IPL, MTech students of Computer Science Department of IIT Bombay were thinking of something else. "Why not come up with our own cricket league?", they thought. Thus was born the Kresit Premier League (KPL), a tennis ball cricket league with its unusual rules and short boundries to create more excitement. It had all the ingredients of the IPL. Team ownership, player auctions etc and and and has real money at stake!

The KPL kicked off at the KVIIT grounds today. The first match was between the "Drunken Masters" in their yellow outfits and "Team Pulkit" in their orange outfits. There were not many spectators, the only ones being the tournament officials and some members of other teams (may be just to pick some clues on weaknesses of the playing teams ;)). Though the name "Drunken Masters" doesn't sound serious, they were in some serious business today as they toppled a star studded "Team Pulkit". "Team Pulkit" won the toss and elected to bat. They posted a pretty decent total of 53 in 6 overs. They might even have thought that from there they should win it. But the "Drunken Masters" had other plans. They got of to a flier with a few sixes flying around and they didn't look back after that. They got to their target of 54 in mere 4 overs. Well that would take net run rate to some distance. After that there was a photo session for both the teams and then everybody left to their hostels. Well that was day-1 of the KPL. Tomorrow, "The Undertakers" take on "Team Pulkit".