There’s been talk recently that the ICC is mulling over whether to ban sledging altogether. Sledging, for those of you who don’t know, is the fine art of hurling verbal abuses at your opponents (that would just become bleep-bleep-bleep on TV) so as to distract them. The Australians are credited with having invented this art, [...]

It is very easy to forget that the cricket boards of the other cricket playing nations are not as rich as the cash-rich BCCI. The Sri Lankan cricket board has been in financial trouble for a while, and when Australia cancelled the Pakistan tour, they jumped at the opportunity, and offered to tour Pakistan instead [...]

The IPL Player Auctions were conducted with great fanfare. Outrageous amounts were spent by the entrepreneurs to get their hands on the prized catches. But just like End-Of-Season-Sales at malls, every team has inevitably ended up with some players who may not exactly be ‘value for money’. So here I present a team by team [...]

The Kolkata police want to send SRK’s Red Chillies Entertainment that owns the Kolkata team a bill for organizing security for all the IPL matches that will be played at Eden Gardens. They even had a meeting, apparently, at the headquaters where they discussed parking, traffic and other stuff. There are no details, however, on [...]

The Deccan Chargers, representing Hyderabad City, are owned by the media group Deccan Chronicle. Of all the teams in the league this team probably looks the best on paper (but that’s not saying much). The team has many players who can win a Twenty20 match single handedly. The team is lead by VVS Laxman, [...]

SRK is really bringing bollywood to cricket. He’s apparantly convinced Bipasha Basu and Rani Mukharjee to do some jhatka-matkas in the new Kolkata KnightRider’s team video. I think I would like to watch this ad, instead of the silly zombies-with-viking-helmets-playing-football ads that the Kolkata team has running these days on Sony.
But I think this is [...]

The IPL Player Auctions were conducted with great fanfare. Outrageous amounts were spent by the entrepreneurs to get their hands on the prized catches. But just like End-Of-Season-Sales at malls, every team has inevitably ended up with some players who may not exactly be ‘value for money’. So here I present a team by team [...]

The Delhi DareDevils will are my favorites to win the IPL. I think they have a very well balanced team, and more importantly, plenty of options to shuffle players around to match the opposition’s strengths and weaknesses.
The Batting line up is absolutely solid. Lead by Virender Sehwag, who playes test matches just like he plays [...]

What can be said about the KnightRiders? I’m going to resist the very obvious temptation to talk about the name, the burning-viking-helmet from 325 B.C. and the absurd advertisements. Instead, we’ll jump into the technical aspects.
I’m going to come out and say the controversial: The batting lineup looks shaky. Sourav Ganguly is the only recognized [...]

Where there’s big money, can the gamblers be far behind? There are rumours awash that big bets are already being made on teams and even individual players by the bookies. Bookies are getting ready to issue odds and are taking bets, eagerly looking for a share of India’s biggest extravaganza.
I can’t say this is entirely [...]