Number of Teams expanded from Eight to Twelve
The domestic Twenty20 winners of West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand, as well as Delhi Daredevils, will also get an opportunity to participate in the inaugural Champions Twenty20 League, to be held from October 8-23 in India, just after the Champions Trophy. Lalit Modi, the tournament’s chairman, [...]
A lot had been said about Twenty20 cricket. It needs quick hitters, young blood who can hit it fast and big, this and that. They wrote off senior players saying it wasn’t their game. But what a better example to prove them wrong than the IPL 2009. Most of the major performers have been senior [...]
This year’s IPL has been extremely dramatic and has seen the table toppers being thrown out of the tournament in two dramatic matches in the semi finals. Two teams which were at the bottom of the table last year have made it to the finals and what a turn-around it has been for the teams.
These [...]
The skillful and outstanding batting by the retired Australian giant Adam Gilchrist made the Deccan Chargers charge into the finals. They have gained immense confidence from such a crushing victory over Delhi, the best team so far in this season of the IPL.
Even after winning the toss Gilchrist wanted to field first just when everyone [...]
The league matches of the Indian Premier League have come to an end (It should have stopped with this – It is meaningless to have knock-out matches in a League Tournament but well, it is the IPL and anything can happen in this).
Four teams have made that decisive cut to enter the semi finals, with [...]
The last few days of the league stages of the IPL has been very dramatic with almost all being last over finishes and deciding the fates of the teams. As the 54th match of the tournament ended yesterday, there have been quite a few whimsical changes in the points table.
Till yesterday, there were five teams [...]
