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Day Light Robbery

By Guest Blogger at 29 March, 2010, 10:58 pm

As per the latest figures, IPL player salaries are second only to NBL. Well in the third season itself the IPL franchise is worth around $.4.1 billion. The most favourite soap operas are witnessing a steady decline in their TRPs due to IPL. No producer wants to risk releasing his blockbuster movie during IPL season. Every marketing head is trying to associate his brand to IPL in some form or the other (even the official chewing gum rights are sold).

IPL3: A Shameful Start

By Adwait at 31 January, 2010, 1:42 am

Who knew that in auction round of the third IPL season, the reigning world champion Pakistan, would have their players completely ignored? It was a moment of shock and disgust, when the hammer was hit after Shahid Afridi was announced, followed with a monotone, ‘Not Sold’, by the auctioneer. Surprising and equally shocking was the behaviour of the franchise owners at the third auction of the Indian Premier League.

Care for a test match ?

By Adwait at 9 December, 2009, 11:12 pm

With the coming of an even shorter version of the game, the entertaining T20 there were bets and challenges among the youth (me being one) of how long the test format of the game would stay until being completely washed out by the fast pace of the IPL and the T20 World Cup. But after watching Mr.Sehwag bat the other day, I was in doubt.

Karmayoga and a Cricket thriller

By Akhilesh at 10 June, 2009, 3:53 am

Last week I was in Delhi, where I have seen most of my cricket. I remembered the old days when my Nani and I used to watch cricket together for hours together. By the way my Nani was a great cricket fan and never used to miss a single cricket match (though her education was only till class 5, she remembered the names of all the players international and national. Although she was well aware of the basic rules of the game, her interest in the game was so deep that she always tried to understand the positions on the cricket ground and certain complicated rules of the game. She was a true cricket fan like most of us. And she was the first player with whom I have played cricket as a child.)

IPL falls prey to politics

By Ritika at 23 March, 2009, 7:57 am

The IPL is slated to move out of India for this season as the government feels ill equipped to provide security protection for the matches because the IPL dates are clashing with the election dates. So we will still have the India Premier League but out side India. It may have sounded really funny if we did not have millions riding on this decision.