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, [...]

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 [...]

With about 2 weeks remaining for the first match to kick off, the teams have started off with their advertising campaigns. But I’m kinda disappointed with the quality of the ads. I mean, I was expecting a big bang advertising campaign by the teams to make use of the tremendous hype and interest, but so [...]

An interesting development of the whole privatization process has been that the teams are now more technology savvy. Its cool to have team advertisements and team logos and team sponsorships etc…, but we now even have team websites!
The teams are taking this quite seriously. The BCCI itself has jumped on the bandwagon, giving out the [...]

The IPL Player Auctions were conducted with great fanfare. Outrageous amounts were spent by the entrepreneurs to get their hands on the prized catches. But just like End-Of-Season-Sales at malls, every team has inevitably ended up with some players who may not exactly be ‘value for money’. So here I present a team by team [...]

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 Delhi DareDevils will are my favorites to win the IPL. I think they have a very well balanced team, and more importantly, plenty of options to shuffle players around to match the opposition’s strengths and weaknesses.
The Batting line up is absolutely solid. Lead by Virender Sehwag, who playes test matches just like he plays [...]

What can be said about the KnightRiders? I’m going to resist the very obvious temptation to talk about the name, the burning-viking-helmet from 325 B.C. and the absurd advertisements. Instead, we’ll jump into the technical aspects.
I’m going to come out and say the controversial: The batting lineup looks shaky. Sourav Ganguly is the only recognized [...]

Chennai has always been a place of ‘Super’latives! You might have heard about the temple being built for film actress or milk abhishekam for a super star! Well in cricket, it is evident from the fact that Chennai IPL team is being named as Chennai SuperKings much on the similar lines of ICL team of [...]

The Yuvraj Singh lead Mohali team have a very promising team. The most interesting thing is that the team is very young overall, with only 3 players being above 30 years of age! The owners, which includes Preity Zinta and a bunch of other businessmen seem to have done their homework rather well.
The team, which [...]