To Cricket with love

The majority of Indian sports (err..cricket) viewers fall into 4 categories:
1> I don't know what Football is
2> I know who Beckham and Ronaldo are, but I don't watch football
3> My favourite teams in EPL are Real Madrid, Machester United and AC Milan...What did you say? They are in different Leagues? Ok I confess I don't watch much football
4> I don't understand football, I just don't understand its players' and stadiums' weird names, the "kicks" names, its rules and positions. It's too complicated. Now hand me the remote, I need to see if the third umpire gives Valthaty a run out after the deep cover ran for his square cut, I can't believe that he was trying to play a pallu scoop in the last ball, only Gayle and Uthappa are crazy enough to do that. And he knew the bowler was bowling a doosra, that too on a pitch that had more grass than Feroze Shah Kotla.

So for the benefit of the endangered species of football fanatics in India, I bring to you, what Football has "inspired" into this new breed of slam bam wham Twenty 20 cricket. On the left hand is the Cricket concept and on the right is the original idea from it came from.

IPL :: EPL (Also known as the Barclay's Premier League, where each team plays the other once in a "home ground" and once "away". It was officially confessed by Lalit Modi when he mentioned about the format)

Super Sub :: Substitute

Bowl Out :: Penalty "Shoot out"

Super Over :: Extra time (to decide a knockout match when the scores are still tied after 90 minutes have been played)

Kingfisher Fair Play award :: FIFA Fair Play Award and EPL Fair play table

Net Run Rate :: Goal difference

Srilankan National Team vs IPL Club Debate (first of its kind in 2011) :: Club vs Country debate (going on for decades in Europe now)

But I do have to admit, few concepts like cheerleaders weren't brought from football as we know it, they were brought from...American Football. And few other concepts like DJs, Yearly Auction are totally unique...