The professionalization (some say privatization) of cricket has yielded some unexpected benefits. Firstly, folks are being held responsible for bad performance. That is such a good thing to see in Indian cricket, which is used to just passing around the buck. The well publicized firing of the CEO of the Bangalore Royal Challengers - Charu [...]

So, the Kings XI Punjab have registered their 5th straight win to move to the 2nd position on the table. We’re nearly halfway through the tournament, and the league table is looking very very interesting. So the three most expensive teams in the league are taking the bottom 3 spots. The cheapest team, the Rajasthan [...]

Last week in IPL did not see much change in the position of the teams with Chennai, Delhi and Jaipur carrying on the tempo from the first week. But surely this will change now that several of the Australian stars have departed to play for their national teams.
Team Standings : With Daredevils of Delhi stopping Chennai [...]

Everyone seems to be complaining about the falling batting standards (”Lack of classy cricketing shots”), the abuse that the bowlers have to face (”Twenty20 is a batsman’s game”), but I think what’s a big mystery at this point is the absurdly low fielding standards that we’ve seen in the IPL so far.
The number of catches [...]

The world around us can be interpreted as a series of controversies. Look at the newspaper headlines. Everyday the paper is trying to beat up something as today’s “big story”. The IPL, of course, has had its own share of controversies, but there is something very interesting about the IPL controversies. They seem to last [...]

As the Bangalore Royal Challengers sunk to yet another defeat in the tournament, the question “What Next?” needs to be asked of the captain of the Bangalore Royal Challengers. There is something not right with the team. You can just tell this by watching the performance of the team.
The biggest thing I have is that [...]

It seems Harbhajan can’t get out of all controversies unscathed. The latest “slapping” controversy has proved costly for Harbhajan with the Match Refree slapping an 11-match ban on Bhajji. That effectively ends his IPL stint. And I’m inclined to say he deserved it.
This is not the first time Bhajji’s behaved like a 8-year old. Slapping [...]

The tournament which began with a one man show by Brendon McCullum, on April 18, has seen some typical, hard fought T20 matches. Raise of low profile teams, especially Team Jaipur (Rajasthan Royals) has surprised everybody. Not to forget those teams which were expected to do better, have faded off with most prominent example being that of [...]

The Australian players are thoroughly dominating the IPL series in the Indians’ own backyards! Splitting up the IPL teams nation-wise is probably not a good idea, but lets just do it for experiment’s sake. When you look at the IPL that way, it is quite clear that the best has by far come from 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, [...]