The IPL is in full swing in South Africa. Apart from the cricket that is on show, something else hass captured the imagination – of at least the world of bloggers. It’s the blogs from someone who claims himself to be part of the KKR team, giving out details about the ego clashes in that team, the way they prepare and react. True insider information stuff. The blogging world is completely buzzing about this chap. Most of the readers are trying to find who this chap is. All in all, he has become one of the superstars of this IPL season. His blog fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com has become one of the most sought after blog page in the country now. Lots of people are following this blog; so do I. Its become some sort of an addiction. There was a pause in his posting for a day or so; and rumors started flying around saying that he could have been caught and we may not get any more blogs from him. And then he resurfaced yesterday night. The popularity of his blog was so much that I got five sms messages from my friends following this blog when the update happened. Guess the entire world is waiting…

The good part of his blog is that he is saying things with a whole lot of satire and sarcasm. Lets accept it – people love to hate the KKR. More often than not, its got to do with the flamboyance of its owner Shah Rukh Khan. And then there is the Dada angle as well. I don’t think Indian cricket ever had a more polarizing figure than Sourav Ganguly. And when he was axed from the captaincy of the KKR team, people thought of a conspiracy angle to all of that – the foreigners were conspiring against him and the team owner was hand in glove with all of that. Hence the blogging world which I consider as a small sample size of the real world was waiting for an opportunity to latch on to something rotten in the KKR setup. They had a shot in the arm when this mysterious blogger surfaced. People accepted him with open arms. Everyone hopes that he is never caught and we continue to get this never ending doze of insider information about the team. The popularity of the blog is so evident from the number of comments he gets for each of his posts. One thing is for sure; even if his cricketing career is over once he gets caught, he can definitely make a living with his writings.

The best part of his blog are the names that he uses for the players in his blog – the best one for one Indian fast bowler hailing from God’s own Country – “Appam Chutiya”. I laughed like hell when I cam across this name for the first time. Man… this guy has a seriously good sense of humor. The other names include “Prince Charles of Patiala” for Yuvraj Sing, “Vinnie Dildo” for team owner SRK, “Lordie” for Sourav Ganguly, “Little John” for Ishaant Sharma, “Sheikh of Tweak” for Shane Warne. Wonder how his guy managed to have such a good sense of humor… Every time I read his blog, there is a big grin across my face. I am pretty sure that would be the case for almost everyone who reads this blog, except the KKR guys. If they were given a choice, they would have shot this guy off from the edge of a cliff… he he he…

You need to be damn brave to be able to write something like this. You are literally putting your head on the chopping block. Be rest assured that he is going to loose the contract once he is going to get caught. And he will be caught some day – cos all good things come to an end some day. But till that day comes, the cricket buffs in the blogging world would be treated to some seriously good insider information. Just enjoy the fun as long as it lasts…