No Big Price Tags, Just Big Performances: RCB’s Bold Middle-Order Gamble Pays Off

When Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) launched their Kannada Instagram page ahead of IPL 2025, few expected…

RCB’s Away Magic: Role Clarity, Balanced Batting and a Captain to Lead 

Royal Challengers Bengaluru have 12 points from nine matches and need to win two out of…

Purple rain and orange alert serve backdrop for IPL ‘El Clasico’

Purple rain. The heavens opening up at the onset of summer should be good news. But…

As the IPL turns 18, Indian cricket is unrecognisable from the pre-T20 days

Season 18 is upon us, and it is perhaps pertinent to take a look at the…

Countdown to Jeddah: Franchises Eye Top Stars at 2025 IPL Auction

The 2025 IPL mega auction, set for November 24th and 25th in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, promises…

Shreyanka Patil out of Asia Cup 2024; Tanuja Kanwer steps in to replace

In a setback for the Indian women’s cricket team, off-spinner Shreyanka Patil has been ruled out…

No contradiction in Kohli praise or criticism

On Thursday, I did a piece on Virat Kohli where I said he was brilliant for…

Kohli’s best not enough to lift RCB team less than the sum of its parts

He made 741 runs at a strike-rate of nearly 155. Add at least 150 runs saved…

Kohli’s legacy will not be determined by IPL glory, but winning it would be embellishment

It would be preposterous to judge Virat Kohli’s legacy on the basis of his IPL trophy…

Virat Kohli, and the RCB turnaround

It’s been 16 seasons without a title. And the 17th was also starting to look bad…