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 [...]

Having a kiddish name apart, the Mumbai IPL team boosts of two of the most destructive batsmen in ODIs from neighboring countries - master of Matara and the Little Master himself! These two can make a formidable opening pair in the IPL. Though Jayasuriya has already played 7 Twenty20 internationals and scored at an healthy [...]

The Vijay Mallya owned Bangalore Royal Challengers seem to have a good team, at least on paper. The Rahul Dravid led team looks to have a very well rounded side with several the 23 of the players in the team being batsman/part time bowlers.
The batting line up has several tried-and-tested folks - Rahul Dravid, Jaques [...]

I know this is really immature and all, but KnightRiders is an absolutely ridiculous name for a cricket team. It sounds so kiddish. Do you folks remember the serial KnightRider that used to come on DD in the 90s? The one with the talking car? So cheesy. And I can’t imagine why SRK would go [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After paying the super-high annual salaries to the cricketers, the teams have now settled back to wonder what happens if their 6-Crore-a-year Dhoni ends up injured and can’t play. Solution? Insurance!
The BCCI contract requires the teams to buy insurance to cover these kinds of eventualities. This has scope for plenty of scope for innovation in [...]

India is not the only country where the IPL’s recently concluded auction is causing the media to go crazy. The Australian Media has covered the IPL thoroughly, with lots of speculation and “analysis” about what the future holds for IPL. A part of the reason maybe the recent “Monkey” controversy with the Indian team, but [...]

Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Bangalore Team, has named the team “Bangalore Royal Challengers”. What a nice name, no? Except that “Royal Challenge” is the name of one of United Breweries (Vijay Mallya’s flagship company) top brands. Co-incidence? I think not.
Advertising liquor is strictly banned in India, but that doesn’t stop the proxy-advertising. They’ve [...]