The misery just does not stop for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Vijay Mallya owned, Bangalore side slumped to their sixth straight defeat in the IPL in a rain-curtailed affair against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens.
Winning the toss Saurav Ganguly, captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders made, what appears to be in [...]

Is it a flash in the pan?
What’s more surprising is the fact that none of the wins came against thakela teams. Win number one came against The KnightRiders at home while win numbers two and three came against the unbeaten Delhi Daredevils (The team that we at Unofficial IPL considered perhaps the strongest before the [...]

The $5 million salary cap per team that has been imposed this first season is all set to be lifted from next year, according to reports in NDTV today. The original reason the salary caps were imposed were to prevent the rich owners (read Mallya, Mukesh Ambani) from buying up all the top players at [...]

The professionalization (some say privatization) of cricket has yielded some unexpected benefits. Firstly, folks are being held responsible for bad performance. That is such a good thing to see in Indian cricket, which is used to just passing around the buck. The well publicized firing of the CEO of the Bangalore Royal Challengers - Charu [...]

I was wondering how long the hyper-businessman Vijay Mallya was going to take the dismal performance of the Bangalore Royal Challangers. I’m sure Dravid must have gotten a talking down, but it seems that the CEO of the team, Charu Sharma, bore the brunt of Mallya’s anger. He stepped down as the CEO of the [...]

So, the Kings XI Punjab have registered their 5th straight win to move to the 2nd position on the table. We’re nearly halfway through the tournament, and the league table is looking very very interesting. So the three most expensive teams in the league are taking the bottom 3 spots. The cheapest team, the Rajasthan [...]

The now-on-now-off IPL tournament of Shoaib Akhtar seems finally on track with the PCB suspending its legal case against Shoaib Akhtar for a month. They even gave him the NOC, which made Lalit Modi very happy and he welcomed Akhtar, asking him to “Take the next flight to India”. Well, I’m feeling good for the [...]

I must admit, I completely misread the Rajasthan Royals at the start of the tournament, but at theend of match 24, they’re sitting neatly on the top of the tournament. With 5 wins in a row for the Shane Warne led Jaipur team, they’ve suddenly leapt up to be the favorite team now! A lot [...]

Last week in IPL did not see much change in the position of the teams with Chennai, Delhi and Jaipur carrying on the tempo from the first week. But surely this will change now that several of the Australian stars have departed to play for their national teams.
Team Standings : With Daredevils of Delhi stopping Chennai [...]

Everyone seems to be complaining about the falling batting standards (”Lack of classy cricketing shots”), the abuse that the bowlers have to face (”Twenty20 is a batsman’s game”), but I think what’s a big mystery at this point is the absurdly low fielding standards that we’ve seen in the IPL so far.
The number of catches [...]