Mumbai Indians win IPL8
IPLT20 – M60: MI vs CSK – Match Highlights Congratulations to the Mumbai Indians on winning the Indian Premier League for 2015. More details on the final, in which they defeated the Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs, are on the IPL website match centre. Source: M60: MI vs CSK – Match Highlights – ipl […]
Vine of the Day: Bravo runs out Kohli
A brilliant run out that looks even better because the stumpcam framed it all perfectly. Dwayne Bravo runs out Virat Kohli in the IPL preliminary final
The IPL8 livestock sales
Who imagined in 2008 that we would still be here in 2015 doing the Indian Premier League player auctions every February? Or even that the IPL would still be a thing? Nevertheless, here we are, and here below is a spreadsheet summary of the overseas signings for IPL8 at today’s auction, with their sale prices […]
The team is on the bus
All the excitement of the sixth Indian Premier League as encapsulated in tweets of the pilgrimage of the team bus from the hotel to the stadium.
Catching up on IPL Game One
“IPL is now a well established product on TV.” – Kunal Das Gupta, head of Sony TV India, as reported by Business Standard, 20.4.08.
The IPL: Welcome to Sub Prime Cricket
As I write, Delhi are 48 for 1 after six overs against the Deccan Chronicles Chargers, and presumably cruising to victory in Game Seven of the Indian Premier League. There’s a lot to observe and a lot to talk about.
Cricket journalism will never be different again
Pardon me while my brain explodes… “What Kapil and the watching millions witnessed was a day that changed cricket forever” – Jamie Jackson, The Observer, 24.2.08
Not so ridiculous quote-du-jour
“This is the second most important day in world cricket, according to me. The first was in 1994 when the monopoly of Doordarshan came to an end when we won the court case.” – Inderjit Singh Bindra, member of the IPL Governing Committee, discussing the IPL player auction, OutlookIndia.com, 20.2.08 Call me a cynic, but Bindra […]
Hello, my name is Ashwell Prince. I got passed in at auction.
It’s barely two years since I waxed lyrical on these pages about Ashwell Prince following his attractive 119 in the Sydney Test of 2006. He now has seven Test centuries under his belt, but his Twenty20 stats are almost non-existent. Prince, otherwise known as Lot 54, failed to attract a bid at his reserve price of $175000. He finished Wednesday’s IPL […]
Why Cameron White is worth more than Ricky Ponting
“Lack of professional expertise in managing a sporting franchise of this magnitude seems to be a glaring gap, especially as a lot of these teams are led by what we call ‘casual but rich fans’ who are assuming their team will be in the top three.” – Anirban Das Blah, VP Globosport India, from the […]