From the surface of it, the Rajasthan Royals seem to have clearly dominated the IPL. They’re winning everything, and look unbeatable going into the semi-finals. But behind the close and exciting matches that everyone has been watching, another sort of game is being played in the background, and who’s winning that game may surprise [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The $5 million salary cap per team that has been imposed this first season is all set to be lifted from next year, according to reports in NDTV today. The original reason the salary caps were imposed were to prevent the rich owners (read Mallya, Mukesh Ambani) from buying up all the top players at [...]

The IPL has been such a boom to so many folks! I’m sure it’ll be enough to lift India’s GDP growth to 9%! Jokes apart, Cellphone companies are seeing up to 15% increase in their so-called Value Added Services. These are the 3-rupees SMS and the other services like score updates, wallpapers, ringtones and [...]

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 [...]

Now that the hype has died down a little bit, the franchises have started to look inward to figure out what the hell they’ve promised. And it turns out, the picture isn’t as rosy as they’d thought.
The UB group, the owners of the Bangalore Royal Challengers have calculated that the team will take 6-7 years [...]

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 [...]

Worldwide, owning a sports team is somewhat like owning a corporation. This “company” sells tickets and merchandise, but really, it is selling people the opportunity to love a sports team and show their loyalty. This makes it a slightly different company than your average company that sells soaps and the like, but basically they are [...]

The incredible amounts of money floating around IPL must be causing a lot of heart-burn for the English players. I mean, Dhoni is getting $1.5 Million for 6 weeks of work! OK, they can rationalize that by saying he’s an Indian star, but what about the freshly retired Gilchrist?
Gilchrist, who seemed in an odd hurry [...]