this year the lala raghubir hot weather tournament looked much like a lalit modi ipl t20 development centre much like the mythic shadyaftermath artist development centre where they try and reproduce artists of the same calibre as rapper eminem or the wwe world wrestling entertainment school in florida which inculcates in wrestlers the famous smashmouth attitude that they are known for above everything else after all there is a chance of another iplesque tournament soon and organisers of the 32yearold hot weather tournament realising that they were not attuned to modern times changed their 40over format to twenty20 this season all fashioned on the nuances of ipl anyone can make it to the indian team now with the help of ipl proclaimed rajeev shukla vicepresident of the bcci and an mp he even added the ipl is a warning bell for the seniors in the indian team those kapil dev days are gone when a fast bowler used to play for 15 years without feeling challenged just a few days ago you must have noticed how for sree sanths place there were four other takers manpreet gony got it above everyone else because of his ipl show l balaji was forgotten till ipl happened we need more tournaments like this hot weather with the second ipl coming up where we shall need a larger pool of players to select from so the more they play this kind of cricket the better it is for ushence the old haggard tournament was sexed up or at least they tried to with a general aim of getting in spectators which were sparse nevertheless and more specific aim of getting the players trained in iplstyle cricket apart from truncating the overs the tournament was played under lights with the dj playing the usual bollywood songs in interludes to complement the sixes and the fours but above everything else this exercise was an ineluctable aspect of learning to play t20 learning to concentrate on the job with massive distraction all around the organisers will pat themselves on the back on the successful completion of the tournament even if the final was a lopsided affair between vidya jain club and malviya club with malviya winning by 10 wickets with 63 balls to spare with most of them who have got the highest laurels in the tournament barring the man of the tournament pankaj thakur of malviya being youngsters the basic aim of the competition was achievedbrief scores of the final vidya jain 64 all out a surya 23 k rana 313 p thapar 318 p thakur 318 lost to malviya 65 for no loss d fagni 28 dushyant 32