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, [...]

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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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, [...]

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 [...]