Pepsi IPL 2013 Event Starts With Huge Celebrations At Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium

A huge and shining starting heralded the start of IPL 2013 in style at Kolkata’s salt lake stadium. The location looked like a star-studded universe with decorated lightings, the globe's cricket celebrities and performing entertainers.

Well known performers from the film industry, companies worldwide artist Pitbull and Bollywood acting professional and co-owner of the Kolkata knight riders, Shah Rukh Khan, along with co-star katrina along with Deepika Padukone held the stag and organised move over the loaded viewers. Besides the superstars performing, the stag was also set on fire by flying drummers, Chinese percussionists and spectacular fireworks.

Amongst all the charm cricket held its focus in a suave and sensible way. The captains of the nine groups playing IPL 2013 took center stag hen they joined hands to pledge adherence to the belief, ‘Play hard, Play fair’ by deciding upon on the MCC sprit of Cricket board. Former Indian cricketer and current commentator, Ravi Shastri administered the pledge.

The moment that surprised and stunned close to 45,000 people present at the stadium came just before the captains signed the MCC Spirit of Cricket oath. A girl clad in white appeared over the arena, swinging a bunch of colourful balloons, carrying the Pepsi IPL 2013 Trophy. She stopped at the centre and handed over the trophy to the captain of the current holders, Gautam Gambhir.

Salt Lake Stadium, one of the biggest football arenas in Asia, was packed and alive with the noise of passionate fans. The people of Kolkata reserved the loudest cheers for their adopted son and captain of KKR, Gautam Gambhir and team owner, SRK.

The Bollywood superstar began his performance by thanking the West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Bannerjee, BCCI President, N Srinivasan, IPL Chairman, Rajeev Shukla and IPL COO, Sundar Raman for their presence at the event.

He then set the arena on a foot-tapping mode by dancing to a few hit numbers from his movies. He also displayed some of his moves to the tune of well known Bengal musicians, Bappi Lahiri and Usha Uthup.

The last performance of the day was from Pitbull, who involved the audience and began a celebration. The Pitbull display survived well into the night after the Starting Night was over.

Those who joined the occasion, it was an night that culminated with exhausted legs, painful throats and remembrances of an memorable time at Salt Lake Stadium!