The new girl on the IPL block

The new chic on the IPL block

The day of IPL 2010 auction saw new chic on the block Gayatri Reddy (seen here besides Preity Zinta) in-charge of the bidding business for Deccan Chargers. As she sat there outbidding others for Kemar Roach of the West Indies, the curiosity level jumped as to who is she?

I did a google search to find that she is the daughter of the franchise owner T Venkatram Reddy and she is involved in Deccan Chronicle as well down south. Gayatri has been there for cheering her dad’s team but this season I bet we are going to see more of her. She was present at the auctions with her brother for company as the second edition champions spent bucketloads ($718,716) to get a relative unknown from the Caribbean. But yeah, I have seen him bowl to Ponting in Tests, and he is good. Anyways, the public I think were more curious about Gayatri Reddy than Shilpa Shetty atleast ;who for me, just doesn’t make the cut as a franchise owner .Preity Zinta has better credentials ,who incidentally is launching her own tv show titled ‘Behind the seams with PZ’ … ehhh? Come on Preity you could have come up with a better name .This one can easily be a title for a fashion based show, not to forget that its easy fodder for comics all over, owing to the meaning the words ‘seam’ can take. Sorry if that sounded cheeky, but I promise I wouldn’t say, didn’t I say so when it happens. Did she forget about the ‘Bublee episode’ of last year? Having said that I really respect her for her vision .Unlike other Bollywood wannabes want to chuck into IPL business now that it is such a worldwide phenomena, she was there right at the outset with then beau Ness Wadia. And they remain cordial and professional despite parting ways.

You will see what I mean when two more cities would be up for grabs in February. Everyone wants to be famous by being associated with a successful model, be that as brand ambassadors or owners with minority stake trying to convince the public that they have a deep bond with that state and city. Club owner wise, I think Nita Ambani has matured the best, followed by Preity .We are bound to see more glitterati this season and some more chics on the IPL block, remains to be seen who?

On a footnote,i certainly think that the whole Pakistani players situation could have been better handled,but that is in another post.