You’ve been a spectator
You’ve been a cheerleader
You’ve been a critic
You’ve been a commentator .Now..
Feel what it is to be an owner !!!
Yes,i have been all these and now
I had also experienced what it is to be
an owner. The Level Playing XI was the team which I had owned in this
IPL(obviously the virtual team) and it was indeed a new way of looking at the
game. Selecting the playing eleven , making suitable changes –some risky ,some
assured while keeping an eye on budget and the franchise and overseas limit so
as to make a balanced team use to be my pre match activities .For the first
time I had watched cricket from a different perspective of taking care of who
is going to earn more points for me irrespective of the quality of their
cricket. Analyzing players statistics and guessing game were part of my team
making strategies. However the real fun use to be once the match get started .The
entire process was just like you are having full course with you and you are
sorting out the important topics which can come in exam and what marks they can
fetch for you .Just like when paper get handed over to you in exam hall you
first scan for question you have prepared ,I use to look for the players which I
had selected in the team ,whether they are actually playing or not and yes we
do have surprises as we use to have in actual papers some unexpected or some
may call out of syllabus question .Well nothing can be done at run time and the
best we can do is look for what marks we get in this paper after attempting ,
including the maximum marks for the question which we had written best .In my
case this task use to be of power player i.e. the player which you think will
perform best on that day from the two or four teams playing on that day.
It was tough ,but I am happy that
I had almost selected the right set of players on many occasions. But the
difference between almost winning and actually winning is that the former
doesn’t count . So that’s how my team campaign ended performed and played well
but could not quite win the title just like all other eight teams in the actual
IPL .
All in all that was a great way
of knowing players and teams much better and a all new way of following and
watching cricket for me but I doubt I will give a second chance to it because I
actually enjoy the spectator , critic and commentator part more than getting
stressed by owing a team.
