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, [...]

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 [...]

Is it a flash in the pan?
What’s more surprising is the fact that none of the wins came against thakela teams. Win number one came against The KnightRiders at home while win numbers two and three came against the unbeaten Delhi Daredevils (The team that we at Unofficial IPL considered perhaps the strongest before the [...]

Last week in IPL did not see much change in the position of the teams with Chennai, Delhi and Jaipur carrying on the tempo from the first week. But surely this will change now that several of the Australian stars have departed to play for their national teams.
Team Standings : With Daredevils of Delhi stopping Chennai [...]

As the Bangalore Royal Challengers sunk to yet another defeat in the tournament, the question “What Next?” needs to be asked of the captain of the Bangalore Royal Challengers. There is something not right with the team. You can just tell this by watching the performance of the team.
The biggest thing I have is that [...]

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 [...]

With about 2 weeks remaining for the first match to kick off, the teams have started off with their advertising campaigns. But I’m kinda disappointed with the quality of the ads. I mean, I was expecting a big bang advertising campaign by the teams to make use of the tremendous hype and interest, but so [...]

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 [...]

An interesting development of the whole privatization process has been that the teams are now more technology savvy. Its cool to have team advertisements and team logos and team sponsorships etc…, but we now even have team websites!
The teams are taking this quite seriously. The BCCI itself has jumped on the bandwagon, giving out the [...]

It is very easy to forget that the cricket boards of the other cricket playing nations are not as rich as the cash-rich BCCI. The Sri Lankan cricket board has been in financial trouble for a while, and when Australia cancelled the Pakistan tour, they jumped at the opportunity, and offered to tour Pakistan instead [...]