I was a little busy on Friday, so I thought I’ll be able to catch only the second half of the Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata KnightRiders match. But when I tried to switch the TV on, there was nothing on it except the boring talking heads giving gyaan, and the stadium in the background was [...]

A lot of folks I talk to these days are very skeptical about the big amounts of money involved in the IPL. Where is all this millions of dollars coming from? Someone has to pay for it ultimately, right? Why doesn’t the government take all this money to feed the poor? Surely that’s a [...]

Jayasuriya had not had a very good IPL tournament so far, but that all changed today, when he just went beserk against the Chennai SuperKings. He smashed 11 sixes and 9 fours in all, carrying the Mumbai Indians to victory comfortably. Jayasuriya’s innings was worth watching today, he was absolutely undeterred against the moving ball [...]

Dravid is in trouble. Deep trouble. It looks almost inevitable that Mallya is going to do everything he can to dump Dravid at the end of the season, his “icon player” status notwithstanding. Mallya has become increasingly outspoken against Dravid’s captaincy with every loss that the Royal Challengers have had to suffer, and in his [...]

After being in the will-play-won’t-play situation for more than a month, Shoaib Akhtar made his much awaited IPL debut for the Kolkata KnightRiders, and what a debut it was! Akhtar just ripped through the Daredevil’s top order, taking the first 4 wickets for just 11 runs! He seemed to be in full fit form, [...]

The dismal performance of the Bangalore Royal Challengers continues unabated, they’ve lost yet another match against the Mohali team. That puts them right at the bottom of the league table, and out of the semi-finals.
What a disaster this has been for the Bangalore Royal Challengers. And in typical outspoken fashion, Mallya came out against Dravid, [...]

Say good-bye to the Deccan Chargers! The defeat on Sunday at the hands of The Kolkata Knight Riders has ensured that the Deccan Chargers will not make it beyond the league round of the IPL. It’s really a sorry state of affairs. The Deccan Chargers, on paper, are one of the strongest sides in the [...]

Kapil Dev came out this week with the often-heard “oh-my-god-cricket-is-going-to-die” mantra. He seemed to be very upset with the way cricket has turned out, especially with the IPL, and went so far as to say that the BCCI has screwed it up. The article in the Hindu is worth the read, but I’ll summarize
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Half way through the tournament and we are witnessing the tussle fight for the top 4 places in the points table. In the third week of the tournament, we have seen some turnarounds primarily because of the Australian players departure aftermath as predicted last week. But there seems to be little hope for the Royal [...]

The Chennai SuperKings seem unstoppable now. Despite having lost their top-performing aussie players after just 2 weeks, the Chennai SuperKings have coped up really well with the circumstances. After yesterday’s match against the Kings XI, the status of the SuperKings as favorites-to-win has been confirmed in my mind.
Dhoni was in full flow yet again yesterday, [...]