IPL Talk

FIP RIP

The Fake IPL Player blog which had created ripples in the KKR camp has finally called it quits to his blog postings. Here is the excerpt from the video he has uploaded on his blog http://fakeiplplayer.blogpsot.com

“This is me, Fake IPL player… or FIP as you sometimes call me… It’s been four weeks, 43 posts… about 17,000 comments till now…

“Behind all the greasepaint, I’m just another faceless guy… grew up in Delhi where I learnt my art… and I have travelled and worked almost all over India… actually, I grew up on cricket.

“One of the earliest memories being that of a grinning Kapil Dev, running back to the pavilion after beating England in the 1983 semifinals… I watched with horror when Miandad whacked Chetan Sharma for that last-ball six… and also overjoyed when Jadeja returned the favour 10 days…err…10 years later…”

“Actually I was crackpot enough to skip my IIM interview in order to watch India take on Australia in Feroze Shah Kotla… A match that by the way we lost…”

“But somewhere along the faceless journey in life, I happened to get intimately exposed to cricket… From the kings of Bollywood to the pimps of cricket… and vice versa… from the cricketers with oversized egos to journos (journalists) that are so happy being in such august company (that) they forget to dig deep enough… I’ve seen them all.

“Yes, I am an insider… I am the fly on the wall… the ghost in the darkness…”

“We have changed cricket matches into three-hour cricket movies… with a couple of strategic timeouts in between…”

“Still, it’s a story that has to be told…”

“Anyway… this is the story of FIP… finally, it’s all just shadow play… or as my name suggest, fake… See you when I see you… kabhi alvida na kehna.”