< 1 minute read Which ones are Deccan Chargers? This is the problem we’re having with the IPL. The teams have no real identities. It’s impossible to remember who’s who. Here’s what we can easily remember: We support Kings XI Punjab. Kolkata Knight Riders is Ganguly’s team, because Ganguly is The Prince of Calcutta
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Brendon McCullum hits record Twenty20 score in opening match of IPL
2 minute read If Twenty20, in the form of the IPL, is supposed to be conquering the cricket world, nobody told Ravi Shastri, who was addressing the crowd before the first match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders. With an audience already whipped into high fervour, Shastri was given the task
Continue readingWhat being a Kings XI Punjab fan ACTUALLY MEANS
< 1 minute read This appears in a section entitled ‘team mandate’. Apparently: “We are all Punjabis; by heritage, by birth or by choice.” That’s nice and inclusive and very fortunate when you’re marketing a franchise that doesn’t really have a great deal of regional appeal beyond the name. So we’re Punjabi. Who knew?
Continue readingThe Kings XI Punjab website
2 minute read Now that we’re a Kings XI Punjab fan, we should probably find out something about them. To the Kings XI Punjab website! It’s loading! It’s still loading! At least there’s plenty of time to get worked up about just how AMAZING the site’s going to be. Plenty of time. We
Continue readingKings XI Punjab IPL team song
< 1 minute read Can’t believe we thought the Kolkata Knight Riders theme tune was good. This urinates all over it. Our sole criticism is that they didn’t use that monstrously fat Sikh singer. We don’t know his name. Anyone? Thanks to Soviet Onion for wasting his work time to find this.
Continue readingChoose your IPL team
< 1 minute read We nearly went for Bangalore Royal Challengers, because they’ve got Rahul Dravid, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Misbah-ul-Haq and Dale Steyn. We nearly went for Deccan Chargers, because they’ve got VVS Laxman, Herschelle Gibbs, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Shahid Afridi. We’re not a massive fan of several of those players, but the
Continue readingDimitri Mascarenhas signs for IPL’s Jaipur franchise
< 1 minute read Dimi is quoted as saying: “I only hope that people will look back in 20 or 30 years time and say that I gave everything for a franchise I’ve supported since I was a boy.” He didn’t really say that. But someone might before too long, because people are, on
Continue readingKolkata name their IPL team
< 1 minute read They’re going to be the Kolkata Knight Riders. Brilliantly, this isn’t even a joke. Writing this site gets easier by the day. This time next week, we fully expect Sohail Tanvir to change his name to Optimus Prime. But the Knight Riders aren’t the best-monikered IPL outfit. That honour has
Continue readingIPL player prices
4 minute read For those that don’t know, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is a new Twenty20 tournament where eight city ‘franchises’ compete for little prestige, but huge fiscal reward. There were several players who were classed as ‘iconic’ and had to stay with their home teams, but everyone else was up for
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