What Part of IPL’s Governance Bothers You The Most?
Pick all that apply (and add more in the comments): 1. That BCCI honchos can own stakes in IPL franchises. This means that the league’s regulator may have a conflict of interest when a particular franchise ends up in a soup. (For more, google “N. Srinivasan” and “Chennai Super Kings.”) 2. That the salary cap [...]
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We Can Be Twenty20 Heroes, Just For One Day
I asked this question on Twitter, and I’d like some discussion: Is T20 creating too many heroes? Over the past month, we’ve seen some incredibly cricketing feats — Dwayne Smith, 14 off 3; Dwayne Bravo; 5 off 1; De Villiers 1000 off 1 (sort of). These are amazing moments to behold, but how do they [...]
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Linear Thinking Watch
This is an old hobby-horse of mine: You can’t assume that a match result would have been different if a particular incident during the match didn’t occur. For example: Rajasthan Royals lost by one run against the Deccan Chargers. In the last over, the umpire didn’t call a wide. Ergo, the Royals owner tweets, if [...]
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Is Cricket Caught In A Vicious Inflation Spiral?
The other day, Harsha Bhogle tweeted that the incredible run chases of IPL 5 — wherein batsmen have successfully stared down required run rates above 15 in the last 5 overs — shows that the asking rate doesn’t mean much anymore. This put me in mind of a recent Economist article decrying “pan-flation“: Take the grossly [...]
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A Royal Spanking
The Kolkata Knight Riders today were as pathetic and incompetent as they could be. In simple words, they lost owing to some pitiable bowling and some even more wretched batting. It is disturbing how little depth we possess in our bowling and how wafer … Continue reading →






