The surprise is over . Curtains have been raised . One of the 2 new teams that will join the IPL bandwagon in 2011 is Lucknow. Proud owner ? Who other than our very own Behen ji . What was her bid amount ? Well no one knows yet , Lalit Modi is still counting those 2 garlands of currency notes.But everyone is talking about it and 3 Reasons she got the franchise are

1: Two Huge garlands of currency notes are so much better than bank transfers n demand drafts
2: Poor representation of the SC/ST in IPL
3: Lalit(Modi) rhymes with Dalit

As to people wondering about the Home stadium. No,the home matches wont take place in KD Singh babu stadium since the last time it hosted any international match was when Back street boys were still cool. Matches will take place in the Bhimrao Ambedkar Raily Maidan or "BAR Maidan" as it will be smartly promoted by the pr team.Of course the rules will be a bit different .Any shot that hits one of the elephants will result in a citi moment of success (a wicket) and any shot that hits one of the statues of Mayawati will result in permanent ban of the cricketer from IPL. The uniform color will of course be blue and other teams like the mumbai indians & deccan chargers have been asked to find new colors as the blue color truly represents the legacy of behen ji. Name of the team is "Lucknow SarvSamajiks" because behen ji wants support of all sections of the society but 4 spots in the team are reserved for SC/ST players. To help these players compete with others ,Psychometric analysis of their runs will be done by Prometric and the scaled runs will be added to the team total.Going by the track record of Prometric we can expect delay of a month or two for the result of match. Ignoring the technical details ...People of lucknow are very excited and the tickets will be on sale only during the maha rallys of Mayawati which of course you will have to attend . People are calling this a collaboration of cricketainment and politics = Cricpoltainment ...engineered by our very own behenji.