In 5th week of IPL, Kings XI Punjab became second team to qualify for the semi-finals along with Rajasthan Royals, who had qualified previous week itself. However, Chennai Superkings who were one of the favorite to win the league in initial stages, struggled throughout the week. First they were humbled by Bangalore in a [...]

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 now-on-now-off IPL tournament of Shoaib Akhtar seems finally on track with the PCB suspending its legal case against Shoaib Akhtar for a month. They even gave him the NOC, which made Lalit Modi very happy and he welcomed Akhtar, asking him to “Take the next flight to India”. Well, I’m feeling good for the [...]

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 [...]

Have you folks noticed anything special about the boundaries at all the stadiums? They’re all looking very suspicious to me. In today’s Eden Gardens game, it looked like the boundaries had been pulled closed by about 3-4 meters! This was even very noticeable at the Bangalore Chinnaswami Stadium where the boundaries looked shorter by 2-3 [...]

One more off the field controversy now. Nayanatara, Tamil film actress has been dropped as brand ambassador of Chennai Super Kings with immediate effect. As per the contract, Nayanatara had to appear for all the 7 matches of home team played at Chennai. Nayanatara did not turn up for the first match at home for [...]

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 curator of the Eden Gardens has come under fire for the pitch that was prepared for the Kolkata KnightRiders vs the Deccan Chargers game yesterday. Apparently, he’s being called up and asked why the pitch was so dry and how come the batsman couldn’t score any runs off it!
This is very disappointing indeed. For [...]

The BCCI has been producing its own ads, and a new one released this week has caused a small uproar amongst the Chennai SuperKings fans. The ad, which shows a SuperKings fan getting it from a Kolkata lady, apparently hurts sentiments. The claim is that it potrays the south-indian looking nerdy guy in the ad [...]