I like to do a fun exercise where I pretend to be a reported from the future and report on present issues as if they were in the past. The IPL is very interesting in this regard, so I’ll try to imagine how the IPL will be viewed in 2015.
2008: The year that cricket changed.
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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 [...]

IPL - these three letters signify a greater deal nowadays! Counting for the Star studded show has already begun. Less than 40 days to go for IPL! Speculating the winner can be a hard guess. Here are some points to look upon in predicting the winner.
Anybody’s game: 8 teams, 14 matches per team in the [...]

Lalit Modi, the big boss of the BCCI and now the IPL is being hailed in the media for pulling close to $1 Billion out of thin air - the white monster called the IPL. The BCCI, already flush with cash, has pulled a fast one by creating this league. If the BCCI was a [...]

The ICL seems to have gone into the background with all this IPL hype, but make no mistake, the ICL is definitely making progress on all fronts.
The ICL kicks off the 2008 season with the ‘Edelweiss 20s Challenge’ Twenty20 tournament today with the Chandigarh Lions vs the Ahmedabad Rockets today. I was not really paying [...]

Pakistan has always been the team we love to hate. India Pakistan matches generate a lot of heat and even the entire world cup is planned to have a India-Pak match on a Sunday. I even remember the India-Pakistan WC quarter-final of 1996, when Aamir Sohail showed Venkatesh Prasad the boundary with his bat and [...]

The “low-cost” business model is everywhere. From Air Deccan doing it in the Aviation industry to Big Bazar in retailing. But I definitely didn’t expect to see it in the IPL. But that’s what the strategy of the IPL Jaipur team looks to be. Remember the auction? The Jaipur team spent the least amount on [...]