< 1 minute read Over the last year or so, the IPL’s marketing/propaganda has been accepted to such an extent that players and journalists the world over have been lauding it as cricket not just called Twenty20, but from the year 2020 – way ahead of its time. You can’t help but learn in
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India Twenty20 failure
< 1 minute read India are really bad at Twenty20. Their bowlers lack variety, the batsmen can’t innovate and the domestic structure has too little riding on each game, meaning a side can finish fourth and still win the league. Turns out the IPL isn’t the ultimate Twenty20 school.
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< 1 minute read See our latest cricket T-shirts here They do one with a picture of the owner, Shah Rukh Khan, on: We’re waiting for Lancashire to start selling Jim Cumbes T-shirts, but he’s retiring soon, so it’ll probably never happen.
Continue readingThe best team in the IPL
< 1 minute read Apparently it’s the Deccan Chargers. They won the IPL, therefore they’re the best. The format of the IPL is brilliant. It revolves solely around identifying the best team over a period of time to show which team is best. It’s totally fair and it lets supporters know which team should
Continue readingKolkata Knight Riders’ arse-kicking abilities fully explored and evaluated
< 1 minute read This is what greets you when you log onto the Kolkata Knight Riders’ website: If the owner can’t even hold a batting helmet without it catching fire, you’ve got to go for ‘nope’ haven’t you? If you’re so disaster prone that you’re blighted by the spontaneous combustion of cricket equipment,
Continue readingKolkata Knight Riders light up the IPL with their woeful inadequacies
< 1 minute read Every sports competition needs a narrative. People who run these sorts of tournaments always think that the narrative should be one of glory. ‘Ours is the best competition and our champions are the best team in history’. Triumphant music plays. Slow motion video soaks up the splendour. That’s balls. What
Continue readingWho is Fake IPL Player?
< 1 minute read Are you interested in who Fake IPL Player is? You can probably work it out if you’ve got the time and inclination. We have neither. We have a built-in defence mechanism against mass enthusiasm. We detest all forms of enthusiasm and the greater the number of people interested in something,
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< 1 minute read Kolkata Knight Riders have banned laptops apparently, so Fake IPL Player is having to update via SMS. As a result of this, the blog has become a nightmarish quagmire of abbreviations and acronyms – in short, just the sort of site we can’t bear to read. There’s no excuse. We
Continue readingThe Fake IPL Player blog writer
< 1 minute read The Fake IPL Player blog is the focus of some attention at the minute. Is it a fake IPL player or is it actually a real IPL player dishing the dirt on his Kolkata Knight Riders team mates? The writer seems to know a bit about what’s going on and
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff v Kevin Pietersen in the IPL
< 1 minute read They hate each other. They just outright loathe each other. Everyone knows they never speak to each other EVER. Both players have been just busting for a chance to show that they’re the one that’s worth more millions than the other. It’s about status. It’s about money. It’s about who’s
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