The fever of IP is endemic with
each passing year getting more serious. The current season is already under
progress. More than cricket it is cross culture integration with players from
all major cricket playing and loving nations. Tough task for coaches to
integrate teams with players from different nations with wonderful mix of
experience and youth energy. All teams have all great players and it is also an
opportunity for domestic players to display, test their skills, talents when
playing with and against finest players enabling them to gain confidence. How
many players had imagined bowling to Sachin tendulkar, Cris gayle or K polard
without being selected to national squad .It was also a ground for skippers to
horn their captaincy skills of Virat kohli or Gautam gambhir or Rohit Sharma
depicting their styles in decision making .This is also helping India to find
future talents, young talents like Unmukt chand and Umesh yadav to test their
skills with senior players, learning to improve their skills from finest bowlers
like D steyn bowling up to mark in pressure conditions and not losing their line
and rhythm even after when being hit for sixes. Also to find out why foreign
skippers failed to perform in this tournament unlike Shane warne taking
Rajasthan royal winning initial IPL.Wish the same experiment could had been done
with Indian hockey or football making a bright future for these games in India.