BASE OF INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE WAS CONSTRUCTED 30 YEARS BACK IN PACKER'S WORLD SERIES CRICKET

Journey of IPL,ISL international ODI ,T20s started by idea of a guy named Kerry Packer,forty years back . Parcker's failure in securing television rights of International matches for his channnel  after being denied by Australian Broadcasting Commission with poor financial rewards to cricketers for international  matches gradually culminated  into league of 'joke of cricket' ,'evolution of cricket','Parcker's circus','Begining of modern cricket' all in one named as World series cricket.                                            

After being thrwated by ACB in second half of 1976,Packer  with his smartness  was preparing for  something  unique, Packer secretly gathered all                                                           .    ingredients signing 35 superstars from world cricket        Pic: Kerry Packer with Clive Lloyd     and revealed his  recipy only at the eve of 

 official  announcement at May,1977. Main media was awestruck with this  named as 'World  series cricket'.With help of Two business men Packer first signed superstars like Tony Greig,  Ian Chapell,Ian Chapell,Imran Khan,  Clive Lloyd.Tony Greig with Ian Chapell    played cardinal role in bringing the bulk of   payers under the shade of the league.      Players from WestIndies,Australia,England,Pakistan ,South Africa with Richard Hadlee as the only hired .None from India was signed.Kiwi were.

After the announcement,Australian cricket Board banned all the players from any type of cricket for them.England Board first banned ,but the ban was legally withdrawn from after the verdict of the court.                                                   
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First season of WSC,was heavily dominated by fast bowlers such as Deniss Lillee,Imran Khan,Miachel Holding,Andy Roberts.Slow     
bowlers were kind of ignored by Packer.No way batsman could feel safe with enough safety against devastating pace bowling coming in continual rotation that too on those pitches with uneven bounce.After David Hook jaw got broken by a bouncer from Andy Roberts Helmet came into display for the first time in cricket history.Denis Amiss first time came with a motor cycle helmet ,after that many batsman followed him. 

First season was quite calm in terms of success,but with second day night matches were introduced.And people t the end of the day, couldnt resist twenty two superstars with color kits under brightening the flood light light more.                                                                                                         
                                                                                        

Packer was the man to pick up economically ill treated cricketers ,and gave them what they worth.Floodlit light ,color kits,white ball,
helmets,fielding circles  these additions certainly made the game more interesting.
well backed by money Packer easily made it bigger than not so rich ABC,and guess what?in 1979,ABC came  for negotiation.Packer got the TV right he wanted.

Whatever happened that time was because of his urge of going against the tide.If his league was packer's circus,means more color so entertainment was more.It was another option given to people they accepted it gladly.People should be offered everything as they deserve it.This way journey of IPL began thirty years back in Australia.

                                                                                

                                                                       

                                                                 

                               

                                                                                 

                                                                               

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SIX REASONS TO WATCH FAN

Fan is a movie by one of the biggest superstar Bollywood of all time,When Its SRK The name is enough,but There are something more to it  unlike some of his recent ventures.

1.SRK Nostalgia:Story line of fan is heard to be always connected to SRK's real life.Source says SRK's Mannat has been recreated for shooting.The Character of Superstar that is being played by Shahrukh is also guy from Delhi makes it huge in bollywood.For us story of Real SRK is more interesting than a surreal superstar,ain't it?

2.VFX WORK ; vfx work in  the film will differentiate a teen age SRK and forty plus aged SRK underwent 3D scanning for the role. SRK recently said 'The VFX is done like never before.Twice Hollywood has strived to do what we have done and failed.'

3.Hollywood connection: Three time Academic award winner Greg Canom worked for films like 'The curious case of Benjamin Button','The beautiful  Mind' Van Helsing' was hired for the prosthetic make up of SRK's teen age protagonists.
Trailer Says it all.

4.Maneesh Sharma Directorial: Maneesh made his promising debut with 'Band Baja Barat' which being one of the bollywood's predictable love stories clearly stands apart in term of taste of story,portrayal of characters based on a theme and story telling.According to SRK Maneesh was obsessed with this story for ten years.Its always better for a director to be obsessed with a storyline rather searching for just sake of making a movie.

5.SRK as anti hero:  SRK as an intense anti hero has always been ruthless.History would surely agree.After his recent movies ,a portion of his fan base want some serious content based movies.here it comes.

6.Ileana D'Cruz & Vani Kapoor: Well these bolly Divas will be there  to amuse you.After shudh Desi Romance' Vani is back .Every one would be eager to see how much  they would offer.

Alen halilovic :: Next messi or Bojan krkic

Alen Halilović,The Croatian 18 years teen who was signed last year by Barcelona From Dianamo Zagreb is considered one of the most promising young talent and has already been compared to messi for their similarity in style of play  .Now playing for Barca B,Halilovic already made his debute for the senior team.
Having style of play quite similar to the style of play of Messi, left footed Halilovic is out and out attacking midfielder,who always likes to go forward.having scored 4 goals and assisted 1 in 29 segunda division matches for barca b last season,this 5'7''  teen has nice pace with the ball with amazing dribbling skills.His  lower center of gravity gives  him a better   balance.His style of entering into the opponents  is quite like messi and robben i.e running with the edge of the box.He doesnt Dribble using trickery ,step overs like ronaldinho,neymar, But more like messi i.e just touching the ball to keep it as far as possible from the defender with uncertain body twist and turns..

His hunger of scoring  is quite visible.when ever with  his signature run beating two or three   ,he comes at the edge of the box,and if he has some time,he likes to shoot.Though he has a good ball control and strong passing but where he lacks    is vision.With only one assist its quite visible that the highly rated teen has a weakness in providing the final ball that also can be due to lack of unselfishness,as he always likes to shoot when ever he is on the right edge of the box without noticing teams mates in better position.

Though  his long range attempts are quite good that can remind you of modric,with his amazing quality to create a lot of space.He seems to be  very easy with the ball,and always ready to take the ball again after passing and immediately gets into another postition.Some aspects specially vision ,game reading,ability of taking tackles  have yet  some way to cover to meet  Leo messi.Even his dribbling isnt at messi's level yet.

His habbit of keeping the  ball   for much time without passing better positioned team mates seems unnecessary sometimes  .He should learn to avoid tackles and also can put on some muscle weight.The teen dosent not seem to be like Bojan krkic who  entered into the first team of Barcelona as the youngest player to feature for the club, breaking Messi's record, and then a month later he became their youngest scorer in La Liga,used to be considered 'new messi' but   ended up turning into mediocore player though being technically strong couldnt survive those hopes due to lack of physicalstrength.But it seems Alen has more versatility  in his game to   overcome his weaknesses as of now.FC barcelona management should keep constant look at his growth and Luis Enrique should show  faith in halilovic.Bojan started losing his  form after pep came in barca as coach after Rijkaard.Pep didnt  include him in as much senior team activities  like Rijkaard did.It will be no wonder with proper monitoring and experience in barca  ,this soccer prodigy can become  the next 'big thing'  if not Messi.