4th week in the league and already it’s the end of road for two teams, Bangalore and Hyderabad. For the semi-finals, Rajasthan Royals have confirmed their slot by beating the team Bangalore yesterday. That leaves the stage open for the three more semi-finalists. Chennai SuperKings with six wins are first in contention for the remaining [...]

Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) had a match against Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur. It was the first match in the pink-city after recent terror attacks.
Sitting at bottom of the league-table and out of contention for semi-finals the only task for RCB was to play for pride. But they were again outclassed in all departments of the game. [...]

Not wanting to see their precious movie business hurt by the IPL extravaganzas, the latest to join this bandwagon are mutliplex chains across India.
According to a ET report - PVR and Adlabs are having talks with SONY (official broadcasters of IPL) to screen IPL matches in theaters. Not a bad idea at all, since people [...]

Renowned cricket journalist and commentator Harsha Bhogle is appointed as an advisor to Mumbai Indians, the most expensive team in IPL. This means that the known face for television audience will be working in background in IPL season. Well, this was expected, as Harsha works for ESPN-STAR and the matches of IPL will be broadcasted [...]

Starting April 18th, Cricket ka karmayudh will involve top players from the cricketing world. The owners of IPL franchise have put all their efforts and money to hire best players. I’ll bet some teams wanted to hire all the top players, but they’ve been restricted by the $5 million per team spending limit. If this [...]

Two of the most hotly discussed topics here in Bangalore over the last few days have been the absurdly-far-away Bangalore International Airport that is about to open and Vijay Mallya’s tactics in the IPL. We at the Unofficial IPL blog put on our conspiracy-theory hat, and it immediately became obvious to us that there is [...]

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, [...]

The “royal” cricketers representing the pink city have a team which looks very confusing at first. For starters, it lacks clear match winners that have been proved in the Twenty20 format. The only sort of star appeal comes with the presence of Shane Warne acting as bowler, batsmen and coach! This kind of multi role [...]

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 [...]