After the spectacular debacle of Indian Hockey that saw the doors to its olympic dreams shut for the first time in 80 years, has got SRK’s attention. The ever publicity-hungry Shahrukh Khan today came out in support of Indian Hockey, urging everyone to stop the blame game and get down to fixing the problem. SRK, [...]

Lalit Modi, in a boastful mood today, made an audacious claim that he had approached AIFF, the All India Football Federation, with a proposal to set up a domestic league similar to what he did with the IPL. And this, apparently, was four years ago! Modi, speaking from Dubai today said “Yes I had made [...]

The Vijay Mallya owned Bangalore Royal Challengers seem to have a good team, at least on paper. The Rahul Dravid led team looks to have a very well rounded side with several the 23 of the players in the team being batsman/part time bowlers.
The batting line up has several tried-and-tested folks - Rahul Dravid, Jaques [...]

What lessons can be learnt from the IPL? How come the league has become such a big hit, and how can we duplicate it’s success? That seems to be the thing on the minds of several cricket and other sports leagues all over the world as they watch the events unfold in India’s biggest sporting [...]

The thunderstorm season kicked off in Bangalore today with a heavy downpour in the city. Bangalore has an unusually long rainy season, with the pre-monsoon showers starting in mid-march and going on all the way till May. And Oh, incidentally, that’s exactly the IPL season. But wait, it gets better. It usually rains late-afternoon, between, [...]

I like to do a fun exercise where I pretend to be a reported from the future and report on present issues as if they were in the past. The IPL is very interesting in this regard, so I’ll try to imagine how the IPL will be viewed in 2015.
2008: The year that cricket changed.
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IPL seems to churn out news with every passing day before its start on April 18, 2008. This time it is the case of CCI (Cricket Club of India) refusing to host IPL matches at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. Apparently, CCI had offered its ground to IPL but not the clubhouse and the club members’ children’s [...]

The MBA folks have always got the best and the most lucrative jobs in finance and  consulting, but this is a new trend. The Delhi Daredevils team, run by the infrastructure company GMR, has hired an IIM A grad to be the Assistant Vice-President (Operations) for the team, for a reported pay package of ~30 [...]

The low profile round-2 auction for the players took place on Tuesday in Mumbai. It lacked the gala of the first round but there a few sparks because some valuable fringe players. As expected members of U-19 world cup squad dominated the auction with fixed fees of 30000 USD.. Bangalore franchise which was criticized after [...]

The IPL cricketing extravaganza will see eight teams representing different cities slug it out in the Twenty20 format. The teams are franchisees which are owned by the biggest names in corporate sector and Bollywood, but what’s more interesting is how the money is going to flow in this mega-event!
Let’s have a look at [...]