The best scene in the Delhi vs Kolkata match the other day was Saurav Ganguly looking towards the sky, seeing his hopes of getting into the semi-finals getting dashed. It was pretty tragic for the KnightRiders, whose larger-than-life captain and owner have dominated the IPL, to get washed away by the rain.
Cricket is not a [...]

The news agencies Reuters and the Associated Free Press, the top news feeding agencies for news papers around the world issued an advisory to all their subscribers today saying that no text will be reoported on any of the IPL games. Both the agencies are angry with the BCCI over the media restrictions that were [...]

As the D-Day for Cricket ka Karmayudh is approaching nearer, it seems that all is not well with IPL. After almost sorting out the issues with print media regarding the controversial clauses, now the ball is back in BCCI’s court. Well, with the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) threatening to blackout IPL coverage with barely 2 [...]

With a tournament the size of the IPL, we can all certainly expect many things to be going wrong, but in this particular case, a LOT of things seem  to be going wrong with the IPL and the BCCI. For starters, there’s STILL no news of the IPL tickets - where to buy them, how [...]

The BCCI has done a lot of new and cool things with the IPL, and that has brought a lot of innovation in the game. It is no secret that money has been the primary motivating factor for the BCCI so far, and they’ve done a lot of weird things to raise obscene amounts of [...]

After the IPL announced some stupid media restrictions earlier this week which effectively prohibited online newspaper editions (including cricinfo) and blogs from using *ANY* pictures online, the media folks were predictable unhappy. The Editors Guild of India, an organization that represents print newspapers in India, today sent off a very angry letter to Lalit Modi [...]

The BCCI today came out with the so-called media rules for journalists (and presumably bloggers). The rules are so ridiculously absurd, that if it were announced a couple days earlier, people would have thought its an april fool’s joke. The BCCI says that media folks who take pictures at the games will not be allowed [...]

The Indian board, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that its going to make the captains of all the IPL teams make a pledge (or oath, if you prefer) that they will play the league “in the spirit of the game of cricket“.
Excuse me? By the way, did you know that there is actually a [...]

The money that the IPL is bringing in for the BCCI and Sony is skyrocketing. The tally that the sponsors have agreed to fork out stands very close to Rs 500 Crores today! With each new day, comes good news. Today, Kingfisher announced that it had bought the rights to the “umpiring” parts of the [...]

You might have heard people being paid to attend the political party’s rallies or welcoming them. But did you ever know you can get paid, that too in a cricket crazy nation like India for welcoming the cricketing heroes! Sounds weird. Well, that’s the fact. Mid-day reports that the welcome offered to U19 world cup [...]