Kudos to Rajasthan Royals! They were the deserving winners of the first edition of IPL. Even though I was supporting Chennai Super Kings during the final, I have to admit now that the better team won. And they were better throughout the whole tournament.
But the biggest victory was not achieved by them, but by the age-old sports aphorism of a sincere team, even though unrated, being capable of achieveing even the unthinkable. Everyone, including me, had not given them a smidgeon of chance to go all the distance, but the victory is now for everyone to see.
Somebody had said, a sport doesn’t make a character but reveal it. Such characters when revealed become the soul-inspirers for all self-doubters. IPL’s winning team story will definitely be told and retold in many sporting pep talks.
A share of that awe and adulation should also go for the the tournament, IPL, itself. No topic other than that debating the league’s success and impact has garnered as much limelight. After 44 days of extravaganza, eveyone would agree though, that it has been an unqualified success. Problems still are many: the long schedule, inadeqaute foreign representation, inconcomitant hysteria outside India, the overlapping international calendar etc just to name a few. But nobody should fight an idea whose time has come. Leave aside the ‘Doubting Thomases’, and bring in the ‘Charmed Romanticists’.
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