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 [...]

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 [...]

I noticed something very interesting the other day. Here’s the list of man-of-the-match awards that have been given for the 7 matches so far.
Sehwag, SR Watson, M Boucher, D Hussey, Mahroof, M Hussey, McCullum
Only one Indian name in the list? Despite the max-of-4-international-player limit, the foreign players seem to be cornering all the limelight? Technically, [...]

The love-hate relationship that the International Cricket Council seems to be having with the IPL tournament is showing in various funny ways. First it was the flip-flopping over the exclusive window for the IPL’s 6-week tournament. Then, the ICC made some really weird statements about the possible corruption risk in the IPL tournament.This is new [...]