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Decoding IPL fake player isn’t tough now. And neither is decoding the cryptic names he uses for reference to his coach, captain, owner of the franchisee and the other team players including Sourav. Till the last post titled “ Bhookha Nan” which obviously is the reference to Buchanan, he used to mention that he hasn’t played in any of the IPL game. And in his last post which was done today he hasn’t mentioned anything of that sort. That implies if he is really an insider, then it has to be a player who played the last KKR game against MI. Now there are a few pointers to the identity of this blogger which are as below:

· He mentions that he didn’t play the IPL season 1 and has been included in the team from season 2. That he is blogging still, it implies that he hasn’t been sent off from the South African safari. There is one player who fulfills the above criterion.

· He mentions that he is from Calcutta and has been brought up in the city of Joy. He is a BONG and has a lot of respect for Sourav, which is obvious. DADA is God figure or all Bongs and of course for a non Bong like me. So the respect is obvious. The player has to be from Bengal. Not many except Sourav himself hail from Bengal in KKR.

· He says he made his debut last season. He did it against MP in Nov 2008. His t20 debut came against Orissa in Apr 2007 in the era when BCCI was reluctant to play T20. How ironic. He made his IPL debut against MI (Point mentioned in the 1^st Para above). The match against MI was on Monday i.e. on 27/4 a day after he wrote the Bhookha Nan post on his blog. He didn’t mention a single bit that he played in last IPL game but in erstwhile posts he mentioned that he didn’t get a game and there were chances that he won’t get any. That didn’t happened anyhow.

· The only Indians left in the KKR squad are : Ganguly, Agarkar, Murali Kartik, Arindam Ghosh, Wriddhiman Saha, Ishant Sharma, Laxmi Shukla, Yashpal Singh, Dinda, Rohan Banerjee (oh wow he hasn’t made his iPL debut so far), Anureet Singh, Shoaib Sheikh (yet to make debut). Ganguly, Agarkar, Sharma, Shukla, Kartik are international pros, they are ruled out. Out of the rest Saha and Dinda are experienced pros for Bengal team, so they are ruled out. Yashpal Singh plays for services and is 57 FC games old, so he is gone. That leaves just Banerjee, Ghosh and Sheikh who are new on the horizon. Banerjee looks kid and isn’t much experience on the cricketing circuit to understand the details mentioned in the blog (I assume, he can beat me still). Sheikh is an unknown commodity. I am not sure about him.

· The only player which fulfills the criterion listed in points 1,2 and 3 is Arindam Ghosh.

So if the fake IPL player if he has to be a KKR insider he has got to be Arindam Ghosh or it could be Shahrukh Khan himself. You see the names of the fake IPL player here on Arm Ball first time. Read the fake ipl player blog many times and then read this pointers. All roads lead to one name.

He was nemesis of Indian defeat in 2007 World Cup. He was also one of the reason responsible for defeat in 2004 in Bangladesh. He was supposed to be one of the ok type player to be put on the auction. He has been poor man’s Shoaib Akhtar. One of the good players in BD team who can be termed as decent. Injuries’ famous son and now the most talked about player in the IPL Auction 2. Being sold for 1100% more than his base price is like ooh la la. His life has been made and his folks in BD would celebrate the windfall. And guess wot who got him. Dada. Dada replaced Shoaib Akhtar and Umar Gul with Mourtaza. How much change it would bring to SRK;s team is yet to be known but for sure the KKR have created a furore by buying out for 1100% more than what cud have been base price.

Shakib Al Hasan, surprising # 1 allrounder (never mind he got there by playing against SL, Zim and Ken) was not touched by anybody. ICC was shown again in black face when its rankings weren’t considered.

Besides this it was English flavor in the auction. Perhaps indicator of the things to come. Few days back ECB was against IPL, now its own 2 former skippers are the most sought players in the IPL. Strange times this. Never mind. The stage is set for season 2 of the cricket with Bollywood entertainment mix. It had PZ, SRK in it last season, now it has Big Brother Shilpa Shetty too. Thin is in.