IPL Champions - Really ?

Rajasthan Royals were recently crowned the champions of the inaugural DLF Indian Premier League. Is that apt ? Now, before you start thinking you should beat me up, hang on. No doubt they were the best team and they are deserved winners. What I meant by apt was the term 'Indian' in the statement. Firstly Jaipur is not a city that boasts of one of the 8 biggest cricket stadiums. It was perhaps chosen even for an IPL Team only because of Lalit Modi. Rajasthan has barely ever produced Indian cricketers (2 in the entire history of cricket in fact). Statistically Ahmedabad has one of the best stadiums in terms of capability, and capacity. But I am guessing this city was not chosen mainly because Gujrat is a dry state and the image of the IPL is a rather cool modern one. Alright fair enough to chose Jaipur. The name was chosen to be Rajasthan Royals and since there is a severe dearth of cricket players from Rajasthan, they could not be associated with an 'iconic player' (which is actually a good thing, because the two finalists happened to be the ones without these 'iconic players'). After the bidding process, the biggest name that the team could associate with is that of Shane Warne. No disrespect to Warney, but its a shame that we cannot have 8 capable Indian leaders. Now, coming to the rest of the team. If you count, you notice that there are barely any Indian team players. Barring Yousuf Pathan, who in all fairness to what I'm saying, has just broken into the national team. And then there is Munaf Patel, he was supposed to be the next big thing in Indian fast bowling, but as usual fatigue and the hype associated with everything in Indian cricket has made him a not so regular earner of a spot in the final eleven that plays. People talk about irony in life. They say the best rapper is a White, the best football player in England is not English, so on. Perhaps it is not that ironic that the best cricket team in India is barely even Indian.