Do players improve and play better after a bad season or two with the Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL?

I don't think it is the case only with RCB. Whenever players move on to other franchise, they often prove themselves by bringing their form back.

I would agree with that.

It seems true with all the players you mentioned here. But it is not only with RCB but with any other team. In this season RCB as a team had a bad start but slowly they have started picking up

It's like any other season. I must say when IPL started a few years back, it had some glamour as it had a new interpretation of usual cricket we watched. Now it seems like same old, same old. I hardly watch.

I honestly feel that IPL should be scrapped since it has reduced the Gane to a joke and a commercial venture and the average hard working citizens of our country can certainly live without it...

I agree with Usha! The IPL has turned cricket into a joke where players are auctioned off like animals. Even top ranking players do not feel below dignity at this kind of slave market. I feel cricket altogether should be scrapped, it proves nothing, it does nothing or brings nothing to the society in general. Only wastage of time and efforts where a handful few carry home sackfuls of money with Bollywood bimbos hanging on to their necks!

usha manohar wrote:

I honestly feel that IPL should be scrapped since it has reduced the Gane to a joke and a commercial venture and the average hard working citizens of our country can certainly live without it...

Many of the game lovers will resonate with your thoughts. The game has been reduced to a commercial venture. But we can not deny that it is continuing year after year despite of all the controversies. This definitely shows it's popularity especially among youngsters. Sadly that is the demand of the time. And like all other business it is working on the demand and supply rule.

I think ladies would disprove my post but I love watching IPL. By the way ladies love their recipes and I love IPL and recipes both. Yes, certain players are doing well even if they failed in last season but some that did well last time around are going down the hill.  

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

I agree with Usha! The IPL has turned cricket into a joke where players are auctioned off like animals. Even top ranking players do not feel below dignity at this kind of slave market. I feel cricket altogether should be scrapped, it proves nothing, it does nothing or brings nothing to the society in general. Only wastage of time and efforts where a handful few carry home sackfuls of money with Bollywood bimbos hanging on to their necks!

Though I agree with your view on IPL, I do not endorse your view about cricket. You might consider it a wastage of time and efforts, but for a true cricketer it is their life. Its something they are very passionate about. In the end, cricket is like any other game, in which only a few individuals would attain success. Its a way of life.

The sportsmen love being bought and sold allover the world in almost every game. You can check with rugby, football, cricket, volleyball, car-racing etc. In fact cricket is one of the most popular games and even games like hockey, kabaddy and badminton are experimenting with the similar ideas. Sports bring forward the sportsmanship besides oneness among the people in different parts of the world. If sports were so bad or bring nothing to society then we should do away with all sporting activities, cultural programs, films and drama, arts, painting etc as well which are as meaningless (do they bring anything special to society?) Sorry but that's how the things stand for me.