By its acquisition of most players in the world of cricket, the Indian Premier League has managed to move everything in its way like a thunder rumbling across. The attention that the IPL Cricket league is receiving has belittled the meager reputation that the ICL managed to secure some time back and IPL has already done what it was conceived for.
The formation of the IPL cricket league is certainly not the result or aftermath of the Indian win over the Twenty20 World Cup which was initially termed as “a waste of time” by high officials in BCCI. It is due to the formation of the Indian Cricket League by some former Indian cricket players who wanted to move the monopoly of BCCI over Indian cricket that the concept of the IPL came around.
Taking inspiration from English Premier League, BCCI started the idea of Indian Premier League where the support of cricket boards of various countries has been sought. players from different countries have been allowed to play in the IPL Cricket League and they are being paid heavy sums for doing so.
Amounts so large are involved in both these ventures that using the word “enormous” will be underestimating them. Auctions of the players and the state teams in the IPL have attracted big business houses, Bollywood actors, millionaires from all over the world. It is the big names that are paying that have made all the difference in the IPL.
Cricket is considered to be more like a religion in India than just a sport. People have their passion with this game and passion is one virtue where everything else takes a backseat. With matches in this league to start in April 2008, everybody has their fingers crossed and is hoping for the great entertainment.
The classic sound of leather on willow will soon blend into the buzz of the summer season once more. Now is the time to plan a fantastic start to the new cricket season! Typically cricket matches take place once a week and provide a great opportunity to catch up with all your cricket mates and supporters at the cricket club. However a new way to encourage player interaction and plenty of banter even during non-match days is to go social online by creating a Club Fantasy Cricket League. Sports social networking site BMG offers a free application which enables cricket fans & players to create and manage a fantasy cricket league within their club or amongst friends.
Similar to the Leagues related to the IPL, players are assigned a value between 1 and 10 (10 = the better player). A player’s value is based on the ability of the player to score points through ‘real-life’ bowling, batting and fielding performances. Cricket club members then select their fantasy eleven from the list and compete against each other to see who was able to pick the most successful team.
To award points the league creator inputs the ‘real life’ performances of players into BMG which then automatically calculates how many points each player has scored, updates teams with the appropriate points and refreshes league tables. In addition the application calculates the bowling and batting averages as well as the total number of catches, maidens, ducks and stampings by player and by team. The latter is useful if you’ve got players from multiple cricket teams in the same league and it will give the statistics anoraks a nice breather!
The BMG best money earning game app also allows for players to exchange banter with each other on the league competition message board as well as to send virtual trophies and gifts to weekly/monthly winners and overall champions. To add additional spice to the League, players can be asked to pay to play with some or all of the takings going towards the prize money, club or charity fundraiser.
To keep up the momentum throughout the cricket season, the league organizer should arrange transfer windows during which players can be swopped in and out of the fantasy cricket teams. The application makes it very easy to manage transfer windows: the league organizer simply selects a date range and sets the maximum number of players that can be stopped.
The start of the cricket season is clearly the best time to get a Club fantasy cricket league started, so with the Southern Hemisphere gearing up for cricket action let’s get the banter going both on the pitch and online!
