The cheer girls had a bit of a cheerless time at the Ferozshah Kotla yesterday, thanks to a logistics problem.
Cheer girls had no change rooms at Kotla
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The cheer girls had a bit of a cheerless time at the Ferozshah Kotla yesterday, thanks to a logistics problem.
It seems there were no changing rooms for the dancing damsels. In the mad rush to keep the hoi polloi happy, the organisers forgot to provide a greenroom for the ladies.
So the solution? Well, what the IPL has brought to the Kotla are a lot of snazzy new eateries for the dignitaries of various hue. So one of these restaurants had to lock all doors, draw the curtains and provide a stop-gap changing room for the girls.
Whether there was a stampede around the room is not known.
Brian Lara, the lone attraction
Brian Lara seems to be making an appearance at all the IPL venues and Kotla too greeted the West Indian great during the game. However, there were precious few faces that the people could cheer at. Not too many politicians, definitely no star quality. Part of it had to do with the Daredevils' rather corporate image outside of the field.
When rules were given a slip
You cannot have an event in Delhi without loud music. In terms of decibel levels, all rules are given the slip here. The stage was all set for various musical mandarins to make their presence felt at the match, with Sukhvinder Singh and Kailash Kher belting out a few numbers. However, all of that didn't quite seem to make any impact through the glass panelling that encompasses most of the expensive seats.
A price to pay for being among the high and mighty, one assumes.
Old scoreboard out in the cold
The old Ferozshah Kotla scoreboard made a sad sight, as forlorn numbers hanging from it were lost in the din and flashing lights.
This board, which had registered many a historic occasion, including Anil Kumble's 'All-Ten' against Pakistan in 1999, has become a thing of the past, thanks to the electronic giant screens, where the score details fight it out with the telecast.
That has also left a lot of the local scorers a dejected lot. Two of these boards, which are both now out of commission for a while at least, used to employ close to 35 people, who now find themselves out in the cold.
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