My first Sports Blog

Semester is over, vacations have started and the dormant, hibernating beast has finally awakened. Busy working for HAVEINTERN, playing Street Football on facebook, playing with my brute and interning, I thought it’s the right time to bring my first ever sports blog concentrating mainly on the success of MANCHESTER UNITED this season and the IPL-II which ironically, was won the HADDU’s.

 

Paragraph 1: The Red Devils, MANCHESTER UNITED

                The season didn’t start bright for the European Champions as they managed only 2 point in three outings and where lying 17^th in the table. Defeats to rivals like Liverpool, Arsenal and a draw at the Stanford Bridge, worried the fans. Everyone feared the worst ever finish under Sir Alex Ferguson. But suddenly, some sort of spirit evoke in Edwin Van der Sar and he became stubborn and adamant of not conceding a goal and he actually did so for 15 games. Meanwhile, the Red Devils became the Champions of the World, thanks to Wayne Rooney goal. It was Boxing Day, mid-season and Manchester United were at the top of the League Table. New Year started with demolition of Chelsea at Old Trafford and the winning of the LEAGUE CUP final. Suddenly there were back to back defeats in the premier-league (after four years) but it lead to the emergence of Frederico Macheda as the super-sub whose last minute strikes in two games won them those game. While they were looking certain for the third consecutive League title, there was more development on the European front. They became the first English team to beat Porto in Porto, thanks to the 35m strike from Christiano Ronaldo and also brought an end to the unbeaten European run of Arsenal at the Emirates, again Christiano Ronaldo’s brilliant skills and back-heels. Now they face Barcelona in the finals, who qualified thanks to the referee who denied infinite legitimate penalty claims to Chelsea. They eventually won the Premiership on 16^th May at Old Trafford and seek a “Double Double” at Stadio Olympico on the 27^th May.

                Its SHOWTIME on Wednesday, the World Champions MANCHESTER UNITED takes on the newly crowned Spanish Champions BARCELONA to become the first team to successfully defend its European Crown.

 

Paragraph 2: IPL-II 2009 at South Africa

                While football was the need of the hour in Europe, cricket was screaming loud in Africa and Asia. The Indian Premier League was back with more enthusiasm, more thrill, more cheerleaders and more Bollywood celebs. Royal Challengers Bangalore started their campaign brilliantly defeating the last year champions Rajasthan Royals by a huge margin but they started losing again and was back to winning ways. Indian seniors were playing brilliantly, scoring runs at a strike rate of more than 100. Delhi was looking the strong favorite and despite without the Pigeon, they were simply awesome. Misery continued for Kolkata Knight Riders, considered as Manchester United of IPL as they were unable to find the winning combination. They did nothing useful than knocking out Champions Rajasthan Royals and King’s XI Punjab out of the semi-finals. This season of the IPL, saw the revival of eventual winners Deccan Chargers and finalist Royal Challengers Bangalore from their last season’s finish. There was a bottom’s up. RCB managed 7 out of 9 victories under the leadership of Indian legend Anil Kumble enroute to final where they lost to DC by 6 runs. Looking at the stats, the BEAST made certain predictions for the IPL ::

1.  The team jersey colour should be blue, if the team needs higher probability of winning IPL.
2.  The team that will defeat Delhi Daredevils in the semis will be the winner.
3.  Moreover, the team that has a retired Australian player as captain will eventually be the winner.
4.  Apart from the captain, the team should have an Australian all-rounder and a South-African opener.

Hence, if we go by the this year’s bottom’s up approach we can expect Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in the semis but if we look at the above mentioned facts, then Mumbai Indians will win the tournament if ::

1.  Sachin steps down from captaincy.
2.  JP Duminy becomes regular South-African opener.
3.  They buy themselves a retired Australian player and a working Australian all-rounder.

And Kolkata Knight Riders will win if,

1.  They change their team jersey to blue.
2. Ricky Ponting retires from all forms of cricket and SRK hands him the captaincy.
3.  They hire themselves a South-African opener.

Till then, ciao.

 

P.S. That was my first sports blog, you might have found it boring.

 

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