The day marked a wonderfull opening ceremony for the Indian Premier League Season-4. And in the opening match the defending champions are fighting Kolkata Knight Riders. The IPL-4 has many attractions which include two new teams, Pune Warriors and Kochi Tuskers.Another significant change is the team structure eventhough the icon player stayed with the home teams, there are many new signings, a few noted ones are Gautam Gambhir joining KKR as captain leaving Delhi daredevils.

The league phase is over and the 8 teams who qualified for the Quarterfinals gear up for the business end of things. As expected, the eight top teams qualified for the quarters even though not everyone journey was easy. While Group A was fairly straight forward with Pakistan, Australia, Sri Lanka and New Zealand qualifying comfortably, things in Group B went down to the wire. At the end, South Africa, India, England and West Indies went through to the quarterfinals. Here we will choose a World Team 15 (I went …

That’s the sheer magic of this great person, always makes his presence felt on the pitch. I don’t think it is necessary for me to go in to the details of the numerous records, his batting stats, etc as this has already been highlighted by the more well equipped cricket pundits around us. Also, by now, every Indian cricket fan would be well versed with most of them, as they are quite difficult to ignore, as the little master has a penchant for knocking and tumbling them down, as long as he is on the field.

The coming sunday will witness the climax of third edition of Indian Premier League(IPL-2010), where the Mumbai Indians will fight the Chennai SuperKings for the title. Mumbai is in the finals for the first time whereas this is Chennai’s second time. If you look at the teams; both are balanced, but mumbai will miss the master blaster due to an injury, on the other hand everything is working perfect for chennai, someone will come to rescue when there is need. A good eg was skipper Dhoni’s knock on the crucial match …

The 2010 IPL has moved to the semi-final stage. Only one team has performed well consistently – the Mumbai Indians. The other 3 semi-final spots were picked by the Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super Kings, and the Bangalore Royal Challengers. There were four teams tied with the same points, and the semi-finalists were decided based on the net run rates. At the end of it all, the Kolkata Knight Riders find themselves to be the only team to have never made the semi-finals on all three editions of the tournament. The …