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 [...]

Kapil Dev came out this week with the often-heard “oh-my-god-cricket-is-going-to-die” mantra. He seemed to be very upset with the way cricket has turned out, especially with the IPL, and went so far as to say that the BCCI has screwed it up. The article in the Hindu is worth the read, but I’ll summarize
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The way the IPL has turned the sleepy 7-hours-long cricket game into an action-packed-circus-like 3 hour show has caught the attention of a lot of folks around the world. Baseball, the quintessentially american sport also suffers from some of the problems of the ODI format - Long games and only a few sixes (home runs).
Baseball [...]

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 [...]

What lessons can be learnt from the IPL? How come the league has become such a big hit, and how can we duplicate it’s success? That seems to be the thing on the minds of several cricket and other sports leagues all over the world as they watch the events unfold in India’s biggest sporting [...]