Impact on the basics of the game
The final post on the ‘Impact of the IPL’ series means to look at the impact to the game of cricket itself. Being opposed to the new format of the game just on account of the fact that it is a new format is, to borrow a line from [...]
Impact on future cricketers
Pre-IPL school kid: Wakes up, dons whites, shrugs on his kit bag, warms up, visualizes his hero (one of top 10 list of run-scorers/wicket-takers on test matches over the last 5 - 10 years) , practises hard, dreams of donning the test cap…
Just over three decades ago, life in India was simplicity [...]
This is the first of a 3-part post on the potential impact of the IPL on the game of cricket as we know it. I think of the three key components that will undergo change; current cricketers (international and domestic), future cricketers (little kids donning the whites) and the game of cricket as it might [...]
Strike One against the IPL. Those familiar with the American past-time would have heard of the umpire’s exaggerated signal while signalling the first pitch that goes through ‘the zone’, baseball’s imaginary equivalent of stumps. Media restrictions and other totalitarian measures aside, the IPL can still bulldoze its way to being the biggest thing since the [...]
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has announced its signing of Shane Warne for the inaugural season for $400,000 in addition to a slew of other signings, none below $100,000 that amount to $6.7 Million. Bear in mind that this list of thirty two does not include any Indian players yet and who would like to bet against their signing amounts being [...]
As I write this, Vikram Solanki of the Mumbai Champs gets caught in the deep trying to slog one out of the park. The bowler, TP Subhindra of the Delhi Jets who just two deliveries ago got Nathan Astle plumb in front of the stumps, is ecstatic. A dynamic graphic at the bottom of the screen [...]
