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 before …

he 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 …

he IPL3 has moved into it’s half-way stage, and one can only say that the circus has been more successful than it’s previous two editions. There has been more and more money pouring in, to the extend that the revenue generated by the IPL is second only to the NBA league in the America. But, bear in mind that the NBA goes on for a good part of the year, whereas the IPL only has a two month window at the max.Talking about cricket, the action on the field has …

or the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League to be held in 2011, two new teams are to join the flock. Kochi and Pune. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was snapped up by Rendezvous Sports World Limited for $333.3 million. “They made the highest bid for all three cities and were asked to chose one of those cities. So Pune will be the home ground of their team,” Modi told reporters. “There were five qualified bids and the bidding …

he player auctions for the IPL 2010 took place on January 19th. Kieron Pollard and Shane Bond were the biggest buys at the third IPL auction in Mumbai, each fetching the maximum possible bid of $750,000. However, the biggest surprise was the fact that not a single Pakistan player was signed up by any of the franchises. There was not even one bid for any of the Pakistani players, which is quite surprising considering the fact that they are the current T20 world champions. The overlooked Paki players included some …