12  Mar
THE GAMECHANGERS

THE GAMECHANGERS

The ‘Fake IPL Player(FIP)’, an anonymous blogger who created a big storm through his blog ‘http://www.fakeiplplayer.com/’ in the second season of the IPL, is now coming with a book titled “The Gamechangers” in this season of IPL. This book was published by Harper Collins and the author is the anonyms fake IPL player. The content of this book is full of gossip which reveals the behind the scene moments of the cricketing India. In addition, FIP also reveals the  trademark tongue-in-cheek humour and his refreshing disrespect for the demi-gods of cricket. In this book, the T20 tournament is named as ‘Indian Bollywood League’ (IBL) and the names of the players, coaches and key characters are different from those in the blog like Appam Chutiya as Prashanth. The plot of this book moves at a burning pace through 35 days of the Indian Bollywood League (IBL) Season 2 with the Fake Ipl Player and the smart detective PMS, who is hired to expose the FIP. Everyone from Lalu to Gautam Sarkar to the ICC , qualifies to be a suspect. The sub-plots involving the Indian cricket captain’s love interest and the power equations in the cricketing world. The top chapters of this book are ‘The Legend of Appam Chutiya’ and ‘The Moment of Truth’. This book is really a masala packed hot book that will attract all the fans and followers of Indian cricket. The price of this book is Rs.169.

ABOUT FAKE IPL PLAYER

‘Fake IPL Player’ is an anonymous blogger who wrote the blog “http://www.fakeiplplayer.com/” on the second season of the IPL. He wrote daily dirty details about the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team in this blog. However, this blogger wrote dressing room news to meeting news with full of spice and created a big disturbance in Kolkata Knight Riders team. Blogger is using nicknames for players in this blog. Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shahrukh Khan has been nicknamed “Vinnie Dildo”, Saurav Ganguly has been labelled “Lordie”, Sachin Tendulkar have been referred to as “Little Monster”, Gayle as ‘Calypso King’ and Yuvraj Singh as “Prince Charles of Patiala”. This blogger showered  worse comments on the owner Sharukh Khan and coach John Buchanan. In addition, he showered some degree of sympathy on Ganguly. He also wrote the replay to the comments of his posts. Many people believed that the anonymous blogger to be a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders. However his identity is still not known. Anyway whoever be this Fake IPL player blogger, he proved the power of blog with his fake contents. That  blog received media coverage across the cricketing world. Every newspaper and TV news channel in India covered the blog and its revelations in detail through out the duration of that  IPL. In this third season of the IPL, he is back with a book titled “The Gamechangers” which also reveals the behind the scene moments of the cricketing India. Hope that, he will came with a movie in the next season of the IPL.

Posted by bindu, filed under Cricket, Overview, World Happenings. Date: March 12, 2010, 2:14 am | 2 Comments »

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