Looking back at the DLF IPL there were few standout performances by any of the several New Zealand players part of the different teams. However New Zealand’s international cricket coach Andy Moles and national selector Glenn Turner have dismissed the performances of the Kiwis at the IPL. According to Turner, the nature of T20 [...]
We met Gautam Gambhir at this special event organised by the Kingfisher group before the Delhi Daredevils left for South Africa
And we asked him if he was planning to get hitched anytime soon like fellow crickter Ashish Nehra. “Things are pretty well on my performance front,” he said. Arrey that toh even we know. What [...]
Kolkatta were being touted as the best team after their first two wins but their performance nose-dived as the series progressed.
Kolkata’s performance was as unpredictable as their speedster, Shoaib Akhtar at times.
At times they pulled off thrilling victories, like they did against Punjab, scoring 70 in the last four overs to seal victory.
Against Mumbai, they [...]
In a bid to glitz the tournament up to the hilt, IPL chairman Lalit Modi has spared no costs to get fans into the stadiums and retain the global TV audiences that made the inaugural Twenty20 tournament a success.
So it was no surprise when Telegraph Sport learnt that Modi has spent lavishly in South [...]
Sleeping on railway platforms and going hungry was Kamran Khan’s daily, depressing routine as he struggled with abject poverty in his dusty home town of Azamgarh in eastern India.
But the advent of the Indian Premier League has turned things around for the teenager.
A raw left-arm pace bowler, Khan was picked by Rajasthan Royals, the inaugural [...]
Cape Town is readying for the biggest celebrity influx of the year as the off-field stars of the Indian Premier League (IPL) converge on the Mother City.
As a popular holiday destination and film-shoot location, Cape Town is no stranger to the rich and famous, but with the glamorous Twenty20 tournament due to start here Saturday, [...]
After a disastrous campaign last year, when Bangalore resembled a Test outfit and played and strategised in a similarly dreary manner, owner Vijay Mallya made a string of changes, recruiting the South African-born England batsman Kevin Pietersen for a record fee and installing him as captain in place of the conservative Rahul Dravid.
With the sudden [...]
Shah Rukh Khan is hogging all the limelight of Indian Premier League (IPL). Be it the issue of multiple captaincy of his team Kolkata Knight Riders or his response to Gawaskar, he is the man who always seem to be in the news.
He and his team look like trendsetter of IPL in more ways than [...]
South Africa’s ‘help the homeless’ campaign begins on Saturday, with the start of the Indian Premier League, and will continue in September with the hosting of the Champions Trophy slated first for Pakistan and then Sri Lanka. Remarkable how a sporting landscape once isolated has now become a safe haven.
Even more remarkable still that [...]
The general election may have won the battle, but it looks like the Indian Premier League (IPL) will win the war—for eyeballs.
Viewership studies by two media buying firms say the Twenty20 cricket league that begins on 18 April, will attract more viewers than the election coverage.
The general election begins on 16 April and will be [...]
