Yes it’s about the IPL. Don’t pick up the Age or send the kid out to get a Latte just yet, this might interest you.
The IPL has lacked a little something this year, mostly close games, but there is one thing it has that it has never had before, a fake IPL player dishing all the dirt his team mates at the Kolkata Knight Riders and other stars of the game.
Or is he fake. The online cricket world, obviously the first to pick him up, was divided 50/50 as to whether he was real or not.
Case for: Why would you call yourself ‘fake’ unless you were real?
Case against: Why would a player risk his whole career on an unpaid blog?
Then the Kolkata Knight riders issued a statement, “There is a blog spot which a team member showed me this morning which purports to be from a member of the KKR entourage. Poison pen writing of the dirtiest variety, but far too many factual errors. Who ever it is out there is obviously very sick, perverted and has far too little information or insight to successfully pretend to be a part of us.”
Protesting a little too much there. Top Indian writers, and when I mean top, I mean top, have told me that there are almost no factual errors in this, and why would the KKR management team release a statement about a blog that at that stage only a couple of hundred people knew about?
Even if it isn’t real, it’s a cracking little read. Stories about Warne’s luck with the ladies, Sourav Ganguly’s strops over losing the captaincy and thoughts from inside the mind (real or otherwise) of a professional sportsman.
Everyone on his blog seems to have a nickname, Sportsfreak has translated them for us:
Kishen Kanhaiyya — Ravi Shastri
Lord Almighty – Ganguly Now called Lordie. They are obviously becoming friends.
Sheikh of Tweak — Shane Warne
Bevdaa – Jessie Ryder (the first 3 letters are the giveaway there.)
Big Sister – Shilpa Shetty
Calypso King – Gayle The overseas players have the more obvious names.
Prince Charles of Patiala – Yuvraj. This one is good. Never stepping up to the throne.
Little Monster – Sachin. That’s a risky one
Pedophile Priest – Gilly That’s risky too, but not as risky as defaming Sachin
Little John – Ishant Sharma He’s the one not standing on the box.
Kaan Moolo – Agarkar. Also referred to as “the former test player who will always be a former test player”
The blog is delightfully hate filled towards Shah Ruh Khan and our own John Buchanan.
It is by far the most talked about event in the IPL, even including Bruno the dog.
On my site a post called, The is not the Fake IPL player, about someone that an Indian blog thought it could be, has attracted a few thousand hits. Imagine how many hits the actual Fake IPL blog has had.
Get over there before the Sachin Army, or Lalit Modi’s legal warriors, tear it down. It might be the only thing about the IPL that ever interests you.
You can find Jarrod at cricket with balls where he has a charity game for this years ashes.
