After 7 P.M now what??

Have you been feeling a strange void since the beginning of this week?That of not looking forward to watching a cricket match at dinner time(because I certainly am)! And im pretty sure im not the only one who's feeling it.That is what 44 days of non stop "cricketainment" can do to you and the credit for this should go to Lalit Modi.
When the IPL was conceptualised a lot of people thought that this would be an overdose of cricket for the viewers, this could have held true in other cricket playing nations but not in India, where the gentleman's come is a religion (sometimes bordering on fanaticism).
A lot has happened in these 44 days - blitzkrieg batting performances, brilliant bowling spells, world class fielding, nail biting finishes on one hand and completely boring and insipid performances on the other. A lot has also been written about the controversies off the field, with the concept of ownership of teams and players being taken to new levels. This is definitely a renaissance period of sorts for international cricket,this can be substantiated with three instances that occurred during the course of the tournament which we never would have dreamt of otherwise:
1)In the opening match of the tournament between Bangalore and Kolkata Ishant Sharma yorked the living daylights out of Rahul Dravid and Ricky Ponting ran towards Sharma from first slip to congratulate him on bowling a beauty of a delivery.Rewind back to 2 months when Ishant was tormenting Punter down under, with Rahul Dravid getting catching practice in the slips! Who would have ever thought that Ricky Ponting would have the oppurtunity to be on the other side.
2)During the middle of the tournament in the match between Kolkata and Delhi(which was Shoaib Akhtar's IPL debut) Akhtar got Manoj Tiwary plumb LBW with an express delivery. This is nothing abnormal, but now comes the fun part, the match was being played at the Eden Gardens(Tiwary's home ground,though he was playing for Delhi) and when Shoaib got his wicket the crowd went delirious with joy. An Indian batsman in his home ground being castled by a Pakistani bowler and the crowd is actually backing the Pakistani bowler(a new high for Indo-Pak diplomacy?)I found this to be one of the defining moments of the IPL.This after Shoaib Akhtar had silenced the same crowd a decade ago after he cleaned up Dravid and tendulkar in consecutive deliveries.
3)The last moment came in the final of the tournament when Yusuf Pathan got a wicket the wicket keeper(Kamran Akmal) jumping onto him as a mark of celebration.This again would never ever have happened in a Indo-Pak cricket match.
If somebody had predicted such instances before the IPL they might have been asked to get psychiatric help, but then thats what the IPL can do. Its definitely a refreshing change infused into cricket and I am looking forward to the future editionS!