The team ironically was christened as "Kolkatta Knight Riders" and like the Knights of Templar it seemed that this team would be invincilble and would uphold the cricketing pride of the people of Calcutta.
Like King Arthur we had King Khan who was epitomises the zenith of entertainment unlimited.He bought the team of knights for a cool US$75 million and personally expended all his energy for the glamorous ad campaigns.Well we know that the self proclaimed King of Bollywood can dance for anything and dance he did well....
The story was picture perfect with the team opening their IPL 2008 conquest with a bang and it seemed like this was the team to beat...well I think it was beginners luck and from their own the team saw just one side of a war - defeat....Well the King proclaimed his faith in his Knights and supported the team well at each match with his royal retinue (does the name Arjun Rampal ring a bell) ...the last time I checked in he was a good for nothing model turned actor with a beautiful wife..no wonder he had all the time in the world to be alongwith King Khan....
The team finished up at the 6th place out of 8 playing teams, talk of atleast seeking a ranking...in IPL 2008 the teams weakness was exposed to the tatters and the team definitely can identify themselves with the Real Madrid team of early 2000's with all superstars but no coordination.
The likes of Ponting , David Hussey came and went away for national team commitments and pocketed in a cool half a million for playing a cameo in the teams flop appearance on the field. I guess during all this time King Khan was still riding on his stallion of eternal optimism...good on him.
Cometh the holy war of IPL 2009 , one would think that things can't get worse.But I presume Khan / Buchanan & Co. have never bothered to read Murphy's Law - "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".The teams performance has been nothing short of abysmal and to the utter dismay of fans the King has lost faith in Knights to uphold the tradition and to protect his holy chalice of Red Chillies...
Buchanan with the able support of his holiness Khan rotated the power hand by deploying a "Multiple Knight" theory and now the Prince of Kolkatta has been replaced by the Duke of Dunedin - Mc Cullum.The duke has been duped of a win in the last 6 games with all of his so called stellar performers notching up a debacle on field...
King Khan has fled away from his team leaving them in total disarray to dance at a wedding oops...Iam sorry to cast his democratic right of voting...he is also planning to barter his team of Knights with any takers.
Only a miracle can save the team from total relegation now....
There is no point in conducting post morterm on the debris of the Knight riders as we have pundits who can do a better job at it ...what I feel as a ardent fan of cricket is that the combination of so many superstars was never meant to be...we have too much of talent in the team and an ideal should have a combination of average and good players which is not the case here.....
The team who had their bodies exposed last year is in a state of total ruins now and everything around them looks ashen ..they have a traitor amongst the Knights who takes up the psuedonym of fake IPL player to post blogs on internet exposing the inner secrets of the team....do they have more to hide ..I thought all the skeletons were out of the cupboard but it seems the team is on the road to perdition and would only stop till they self annhilate themselves....post which the only time all of them can venture out of their castles will be in night and then they can be aptly call the "NIGHT RIDERS"......
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