Chennai Super Kings Missing…….

We are only few days away from the start of a grand sporting event/Business event --> Indian Premier League 2010 which will be back in India this year. *Cricket fever catching up in a rapid speed, as sachin scored first ODI 200* and everyone will be eager to catch another masterclass in T20.

From my end, I have decided to book my tickets and cheer my favorite teams(more than one……MI,RCB,DC and CSK!!!!).

I have missed the event twice, last year it was executed out of India and in the first version- just opposite, I am out of India. So this time around,I am not going to miss it.

So what next ?????

I have logged into IPL’s official website http://www.iplt20.com/. I was in a hurry ....so I directly clicked the BUY TICKETS tab which took me to a page with three tabs-->By team, By venue and By date.

Under “By team” tab there was a dropdown box with ”Select Team” as default value.

And as you all know, I am from tamilnadu and I want to select “Chennai super kings” led by a non-tamilian(!!!) but proudly an Indian(MSD).

I dropped the list……

To my surprise………….

The team list doesn’t have my home team Chennai Super kings!!!!!!!!


Second chance -->now “By venue tab” which has “Select Venue” as default option.

And again I dropped the list….

And it again surprised me rather disappointed me.ohhhh….

The list doesn’t contain Chennai- M.A. Chidambaram Stadium!!!!!!!!

And the third chance and this time -->”BY date” and I have selected a date 06th of April 2010(CSK vs Mumbai Indians- wish to see the maestro sachin in action…)

And the system displayed only an message “There is no event schedule in this date”.

So “CSK is missing in all tabs” and where should I book my tickets to see my favorite players and stars!!...

One of my friend pointed out that, in the first IPL edition, the list has CSK and when selected, the system redirected to Chennai Super King’s homepage to book the tickets.
But this time CSK is not in the list…..!!!!!

It may be a decision from Chennai super kings to sell their tickets only through their official website http://www.chennaisuperkings.com/ which has ticket booking option in its homepage.(from my side-I am not going to miss out Sachin,Dravid,Gilly and of course PZ and SRK……)

In my previous post, I have mentioned how important to know the behind screen story of a live product before commenting on it.

Oh… before I forget, I have to admit and stress one thing “ If there is a bug in the product which was not supposed to be and is there in a place which the users are likely to notice - it is not just the tester who is responsible but the whole team that worked on it”. The above is a comment for my previous post by our own veteran tester pradeep.

That is completely true and I think, I might have missed my stress on the above (i.e) the whole team is responsible in my previous post.

So please take a note of that………………..

And who knows, it may be BUSINESS again which might have played a vital role in the above issue..……

Enjoy the crazy cricketing event…..

Cheers,
Venkat.
All izz well…

Catch me @kpvenkatesan84.com