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 [...]

When the IPL Twenty20 tournament kicked off, a lot of the cricketing experts and pundits (including us :P) predicted that the Twenty20 format would increase the demand for all-rounders. The thinking was that every player in the playing 11 will be valuable in the quick-fire style of play, and the more a player can do, [...]

The curator of the Eden Gardens has come under fire for the pitch that was prepared for the Kolkata KnightRiders vs the Deccan Chargers game yesterday. Apparently, he’s being called up and asked why the pitch was so dry and how come the batsman couldn’t score any runs off it!
This is very disappointing indeed. For [...]

The ticket prices across the board have taken me by surprise, quite honestly. The ticket prices vary dramatically not only across stadiums, but even at the same ground, the ticket prices are priced widely. Coupled with the marked lack of interest at some venues of the tickets, this is quite surprising.
I think the owners had [...]

With a tournament the size of the IPL, we can all certainly expect many things to be going wrong, but in this particular case, a LOT of things seem  to be going wrong with the IPL and the BCCI. For starters, there’s STILL no news of the IPL tickets - where to buy them, how [...]

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 [...]

April 18th is just around the corner now. 8 star-studded teams prepare to battle it out for what is being called ‘Cricket ka Karm Yuddh’. Lots of star players, celebrities, fancy stuff and of course a whole lot of money. IPL by all means looks set to change the face of cricket. But before you [...]

Do you remember the scenes from the winning moments of the Twenty20 world cup? Team India was overjoyed! And it was obvious that they really really wanted to win. For national pride, for the prize money, for all the glory and most importantly, to improve their own chances of being in the next match!
Cut to [...]

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 [...]