The Rajasthan Royals did it again. For the ninth time out of eleven matches they ended up on the winning side taking their points tally to 18. With that, all the crazy, highly unlikely mathematical scenarios of the Rajasthan Royals not making it to the semis have gone for a toss. And speaking of mathematical [...]

Icon player and captain out of the team due to injury… acting captain banned for rest of the league after the SlapGate controversy… Placed on the bottom of the league table after four consecutive defeats (including a 10 wicket loss!). The costliest team of the league couldn’t have asked for a worse start!
But then came [...]

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 [...]

A lot of folks I talk to these days are very skeptical about the big amounts of money involved in the IPL. Where is all this millions of dollars coming from? Someone has to pay for it ultimately, right? Why doesn’t the government take all this money to feed the poor? Surely that’s a [...]

Dravid is in trouble. Deep trouble. It looks almost inevitable that Mallya is going to do everything he can to dump Dravid at the end of the season, his “icon player” status notwithstanding. Mallya has become increasingly outspoken against Dravid’s captaincy with every loss that the Royal Challengers have had to suffer, and in his [...]

The dismal performance of the Bangalore Royal Challengers continues unabated, they’ve lost yet another match against the Mohali team. That puts them right at the bottom of the league table, and out of the semi-finals.
What a disaster this has been for the Bangalore Royal Challengers. And in typical outspoken fashion, Mallya came out against Dravid, [...]

Say good-bye to the Deccan Chargers! The defeat on Sunday at the hands of The Kolkata Knight Riders has ensured that the Deccan Chargers will not make it beyond the league round of the IPL. It’s really a sorry state of affairs. The Deccan Chargers, on paper, are one of the strongest sides in the [...]

Half way through the tournament and we are witnessing the tussle fight for the top 4 places in the points table. In the third week of the tournament, we have seen some turnarounds primarily because of the Australian players departure aftermath as predicted last week. But there seems to be little hope for the Royal [...]

The misery just does not stop for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Vijay Mallya owned, Bangalore side slumped to their sixth straight defeat in the IPL in a rain-curtailed affair against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens.
Winning the toss Saurav Ganguly, captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders made, what appears to be in [...]

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 [...]