Bangalore will have the feeling that they handed victory to Deccan Chargers, it was a match that they if they added an extra 20% in all areas they would have won which would have a fairytale story.
The whole spectacle was a fraud. It was as though one was being asked to cheer for superstars simply because they are superstars. The players are bigger than the game in the IPL. It was never supposed to be like that.
When Bangalore lost all their batsmen, and the only “specialist” left standing to shepherd the tail was Robin Uthappa, I got a strange feeling that maybe the league’s Least Valuable Player (or Most Useless Player) had one last hurrah left; [...] “Ootapatta”, as he was once memorably called by Ian Chappell, did not disappoint however. He stuck to his guns and earned full marks for consistency. He remains, hands down, the most useless player in the entire IPL.
And for once, Jumbo looked more a dude than a geek. On the ball, button, but how long can you carry a team on your shoulders, even on those broad shoulders.