IPL 2012 season review
IPL 2012 On a steamy Chennai night IPL 5 had a Finish that it could not have dreamed of or prayed for, with all the good bits of an entire season coming together in symbolic Representation.
Major finals tend to be flat and forgettable because the occasion ends up too big, the teams too tense. The 2010 World Cup football final will be remembered for a boot in the ribs, the 2011 World Cup rugby final was a dour, defensive struggle that the All Blacks endured. The World Cup cricket final a year ago ended splendidly for India but left its audience so emotionally exhausted that IPL 4 was played to vast tracts of empty stands and dipping TV Ratings.
After 2012, however the IPL lives again, breathes again and makes some good news again. On Sunday, there was a full stadium at Chepauk for the first time since the World Cup, a new champion, a successful chase of 191, nine needed off the last over, players sweating buckets, spectators sweating anxiety.
If anything has rescued the IPL from its turkey of a 2011 & lifted it, regardless of a frequency of allied scandals, it is its cricket and its crowds.
