The IPL Player Auctions were conducted with great fanfare. Outrageous amounts were spent by the entrepreneurs to get their hands on the prized catches. But just like End-Of-Season-Sales at malls, every team has inevitably ended up with some players who may not exactly be ‘value for money’. So here I present a team by team [...]

Lot has been said of the Bangalore IPL team about the selections they made in the Ist round of IPL auction. But the master strategist Vijay Mallya makes his mark wherever he puts his eye in! That was evident when the 2nd round IPL auction results were out. They had some prize catches like, India [...]

In order to make pitches consistent across the stadiums, the BCCI just conducted a seminar for curators. Curators, as you know, are responsible for preparing the pitches before the matches. They even flew in the famous Australian curator of the Adelaide Oval, Les Burdett, to give gyaan to the eager curators from the 8 cities [...]

IPL - these three letters signify a greater deal nowadays! Counting for the Star studded show has already begun. Less than 40 days to go for IPL! Speculating the winner can be a hard guess. Here are some points to look upon in predicting the winner.
Anybody’s game: 8 teams, 14 matches per team in the [...]

The extravagant IPL has it all - Big money, lots of controversy and lots of cricket (hopefully). The last missing piece - Bollywood item numbers - also looks to be coming to the IPL with rumours abound that SRK has roped in the famous coreographer Ganesh to do an item number for the Kolkata team. [...]

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 [...]

After paying the super-high annual salaries to the cricketers, the teams have now settled back to wonder what happens if their 6-Crore-a-year Dhoni ends up injured and can’t play. Solution? Insurance!
The BCCI contract requires the teams to buy insurance to cover these kinds of eventualities. This has scope for plenty of scope for innovation in [...]

As the dust of the IPL player auction settles (and the team owners wonder if they overpaid) everyone is now getting down to business. And the first order of business is wondering what to call themselves. Some folks like Vijay Mallya bought the teams with the understanding that they will be using them for advertising [...]

The Jaipur team, owned by the Emerging Media consortium, was fined by the BCCI today for spending too little money in the auctions. There was a requirement that all teams spend at least Rs 13.1 Crores, but the Jaipur team spent only Rs 11.8 Crores. Fined for spending too little money. That’s a new one.
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