Email to friend icon

IPL

IPLThe Indian Premier League is an eight team Twenty20 Cricket competition which experienced its inaugural season in 2008. Before the tournament began, every IPL team was summoned to a player auction in order to form its roster for the coming season. Indian batsmen Gautam Gambhir is currently the highest paid player in the IPL, receiving a contract with the Kolkata Knight Riders worth over 1.5 million dollars a season. The IPL’s fifth season was contested in 2012 and was won by Kolkata Knight Riders, who defeated defending champions Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in the IPL final.

IPL Articles

Mike Hussey’s hot form continues in IPL

by , 23 May 2013

Retirement from cricket’s international ranks has failed to dampen the form of Mike Hussey, who produced another match-winning display in the Indian Premier League to lift his team into Sunday’s final. Hussey scored an unbeaten 86 off 58 deliveries to guide the Chennai Super Kings to a 48-run win over Mumbai Indians on Tuesday night. [...]

IPL stars refused bail over spot fixing

by , 22 May 2013

Three Indian cricket players were refused bail on Tuesday after they appeared in court on spot-fixing charges as police announced the arrest of a Bollywood actor over the scandal. A court in New Delhi agreed a five-day custody extension for former Test paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two teammates from the Rajasthan Royals who are accused [...]

Has cricket corruption been filed in the ‘too hard’ basket?

by , 22 May 2013

You had to laugh when realising the exposing of corruption was the only time this year’s version of the greed-inspired Indian Premier League received any semblance of coverage. Outside of this, it is the version on the game that only ever achieves the level of a WWE-scripted farce, where the hit and giggle corrupts your [...]

IPL has been ripe for the taking since its arrival

IPL has been ripe for the taking since its arrival

by , 22 May 2013

If you watched the latest Mike Hussey masterclass in the Indian Premier League semi-final and didn’t have at least the smallest suspicion that what you were witnessing was not all as it should be then well done. Because I certainly don’t fall into that category. I know that’s assuming everything is tarred with the same [...]

IPL has skeletons, whatever Warner tweets

IPL has skeletons, whatever Warner tweets

by , 20 May 2013

The arrest of three IPL players including a Test cricketer, S. Sreesanth, confirms what I have been saying for the last five years about the sham competition. The reason cricketers play IPL is for money, only money and nothing but the money. They are well-paid but still they want more. The three IPL cricketers – [...]

Warner targets media in Twitter rant

by , 19 May 2013

Australian cricketer David Warner is likely to face disciplinary action from Cricket Australia (CA) after he apparently launched a scathing attack on two journalists on social media on Saturday. Warner took to Twitter to launch his expletive-laden tirade directed at News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn after taking exception to an article published [...]

CA gain Tait’s assurance over IPL scandal

by , 17 May 2013

Cricket Australia have received an assurance from Australian speedster Shaun Tait that he is not involved in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal. Delhi police issued a statement on Thursday night saying Tait is not part of their ongoing investigations. Tait had been the subject of unsubstantiated rumours circulating via social media that he was [...]

Indian cricketers held for IPL spot-fixing

by , 17 May 2013

Indian police said Thursday they had arrested three cricketers including Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, after they allegedly accepted tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing. Eleven bookmakers were also arrested in connection with the inquiry, said Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, as he gave details of three games in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) [...]

Johnson disappointed, hopeful of an Ashes recall

by , 6 May 2013

Mitchell Johnson has no hard feelings of been left out of the Ashes squad and believes he has overcome the disappointment of being dropped from the Australian squad. Johnson ripped through the top order of table toppers Chennai Super Kings in the IPL overnight and was asked if this was the best form of reply [...]

Watson best T20 player after Gayle

Watson best T20 player after Gayle

by , 3 May 2013

Shane Watson’s ballistic form in the current IPL season should have reminded cricket followers he is a superstar T20 player. The Australian all-rounder in recent months has been pilloried by pundits and fans alike as a result of his poor Test form, his decision to step down as Test vice captain and his involvement in [...]


Older Articles »