In the upcoming season, the ones who have already seen the games would be in for a surprise, for there have been some changes made since the last season, and if you are watching it for the first time then don’t let the mystery bother you. However, one thing is constant: you are going to see the coming together of the serial entrepreneurs yet again.

In this season there are eight teams that are participating with the addition of new teams; the Veer Marathis and the Bhojpuri Dabanggs fill in as team seven and eight. While the Veer Marathis along with Chennai Rhinos, Telugu Warriors and Kerala Strikers are Group A teams, the Bhojpuri Dabanggs, Karnataka Bulldozers, Mumbai Heroes and Bengal Tigers are all Group B teams. The who’s who of each team is something that will take ages to elaborate on, but rest assured the actors that you are probably looking forward to seeing are busy shooting.

On the 19th of January, the introductory event was unsurprisingly elaborate; if did not watch the Curtain Raiser event, you missed Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Prabhu Deva shaking a leg. Besides, the obscure entertainment of forcing foreigners to mouth Bollywood dialogues and dance to film songs was presented in abundance. Harbhajan Singh’s best friend Andrew Symonds was made to dance with the gorgeous Bipasha Basu.

At the event, VJ Ayushman and Ritesh Deshmukh played hosts to an audience that included members of the various film industries and those part of the cricket fraternity. On the CCL website a stopwatch is ticking away, only 16 days 15 hours 49 minutes and 40 seconds when I last saw it and it seems suicidal. At home the my DTH connection offers me a variety of channels; however, to think about a merger between my sports channels and my movie channels, seems very eerie.