The hot hot ladies of the Washington Redskins cheer squad are in India shaking their shapely hips in those short shorts, matching go-go boots and bikini tops. Needless to say male fans were left salivating for more, our culture guardians gasping at the “vulgarity”, purists demanding that the “Indian” sport be spared of such cheap thrills, and some fence sitters (me included) wondering and analyzing to no end what this all means and if all this fuss is warranted.

Background:
The American squad is cheering for the Bangalore Royal Challengers, one of the eight cricket teams of the newly-formed , flush-with-funds, Indian Premier League. [The Royal Challengers, incidentally, is owned by Vijay ‘King of Good Times’ Mallya, the liquor baron who also owns Kingfisher Airlines of the “red skirt” fame that our very own Elana Centor blogged about.]
The IPL is similar to the American NFL or the British (soccer) Premier League, and is backed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India as well as the International Cricket Council.
Players are drawn from across the cricketing world through a bidding process — a first for international cricket. The teams are owned by just about anyone with big bucks — from Bollywood superstars to industrialists to media houses. The format follows the new, shorter version of the game, popularly called the Twenty20 or T20, and is packed with entertainment. It has appropriately been nicknamed “cricket on crack”

[I’d like to clarify the cliche about the game that repeatedly appears in the media here — T20 is the shortest of the three popularly played versions of the game — (i) the Test matches — which are considered the real test of athleticism and tenacity by players and purists alike — can run up to five days, (ii) the highly popular one-dayers, where the game wraps up in a six-hour day of play (the traditional World Cup is played in this format), and (iii) the latest fast-paced T20, that takes up half the time. So, cricket is NOT making a direct jump for the five-day format to T20. And for many of us who love the game, it does not put us to sleep, despite its length. Had it been so, cricket, a primarily British game, would have died in India a long time ago.]

And then the cheerle
Source: fort kent maine - India outsources cheer: Some like it hot, some like it not

                        

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