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The art of destruction in T20 cricket lies in the strike rate. The faster you bat, the more pressure you place on your opponents and the more runs you make.You may be astonished to learn that the biggest hitter in the IPL this year is none ...(more)

(thought about while Akshay Kumar was jumping around like a monkey and laughing like a donkey)1) Win or lose, someone makes money – IPL 1 was the beginning. There were the DLF Maximums and the Citi Moments of Success. We stifled a puke. I...(more)

Image via WikipediaThe IPL3 has thrown up a number of performers (old and new) in the 14 matches played so far. Some of them are already certainties in their international squads but there are quite a few youngsters (and veterans) who are m...(more)

Manoj Tiwary = Former Daredevils bench-warmer and now a KKR match-winner.Owais Shah = Shitty-Daredevils-bat-turned-gritty-KKR-bat.Ishant Sharma = Still looks for Sehwag and finds only Ganguly when celebrating dismissals. Vijay Dahiya= Dav W...(more)

It’s not easy to be at two places at the same time, that’s why I never turned up for the Hockey World Cup. Now I am playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) – and I have also signed up for the Indian Bored League (IBL). I was to...(more)


The first in a series of team previews for the 2010 Indian Premier League, in reverse order of how the teams finished in 2009.The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) looked set to be one of the major forces in the IPL when it began in 2008. They ha...(more)


Razzaq’s memories of playing for an Indian League go back to the ICL – he ganged up with himself and took the whole lotta them Lahore Badshahs on. Closer examination will tell you they took him and his entire clan on. They were all on f...(more)

The new contracts for the Indian cricket team was finalized recently. 4 grades are given usually which mean players get different payments based on where they have been categorized (60, 40, 25 and 15 lakhs for grades A, B, C, D respectively...(more)

When I first read this piece by Makarand Waingankar, I was scandalized.The Uttar Pradesh left-hand batsman Tanmay Srivastava seems to have played in under-14 for his State when he was 10-years-old! And played five years for the under-19 whe...(more)

I had started putting together a post for the Challengers, but Cricinfo pipped me to the post. And for the most part, I agree with what is written. But there are a few points I would like to highlight, nonetheless.While the India Blue has t...(more)

The Rest Of India team for the Irani Trophy has been announced and I am quite impressed with the job the selectors have done.Not as impressive are the teams announced for the Challengers.Given the thinness of the bowling attack of the India...(more)

It came up the other day, in the bored meeting, that who’d be taking up the middle order slots once Sachin, Rahul and VVS retire from tests.i kept trying to think of three names who could be the replacements but no one is an automatic...(more)
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