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Comparing IPL 2025 to 2024: Bowlers fight back, slog-overs runs take a hit

The most eye-popping contrast between the first five and the next six games this season, though, is in the number of 20-plus runs conceded in an over

31-Mar-2025•S Rajesh

The last of the first: Nine current IPL players who also featured in 2008

They were there in 2008; they will be there in 2025 - here are players who have been part of the IPL since the beginning

21-Mar-2025•Varun Shetty

When Fraser-McGurk took down Avesh with 4, 4, 4, 6, 4, 6

How ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball commentary called the 28-run over by Avesh Khan, courtesy Jake Fraser-McGurk

07-May-2024•ESPNcricinfo staff

IPL 2024, a turbo-charged, batter-dominated season like no other

Batters have set new highs for sixes and 220-plus totals this year

20-Apr-2024•S Rajesh and Shiva Jayaraman

The sloppiest IPL of them all? Here's what the numbers say

Which team has the worst catching rate? Which bowler has missed out on the most wickets? And which batter has lucked out the most? All the key questions: answered

15-Apr-2024•S Rajesh

Smart Stats - Gill, Shami lead ESPNcricinfo's Impact Ratings for IPL

Du Plessis, Jaiswal and Kohli are among the top 10 batters, and Siraj, Rashid and Chahal among the top 10 bowlers

22-Mar-2024•S Rajesh

IPL 2024 auction: From Mitchell Starc to Shahrukh Khan, the potential top buys

Last year, Sam Curran became the most expensive player in IPL history. Who will be the most in-demand this time around?

17-Dec-2023•Nagraj Gollapudi and Deivarayan Muthu

IPL 2023 - A wham-bang season so far

With the Impact Player rule and flat pitches at the start of the season, batters are attacking more than ever, and it's showing in the numbers

10-Apr-2023•Matt Roller

How much impact will the Impact Player rule have?

The new rule is one of IPL 2023's major innovations and the teams are waiting to see how it plays out

30-Mar-2023•Nagraj Gollapudi

Vote for the best in the IPL

Make your vote count in the Incredible Awards, presented by Star Sports in association with ESPNcricinfo

10-Feb-2023•ESPNcricinfo staff

What IPL week 1 taught us: dew, middle-over mantra and new Indian talent

Also: the best time for pacers to bowl, the spinners who stand out and which teams can afford to play flashy

04-Apr-2022•Gaurav Sundararaman

Smart Stats - Symonds trumps Hayden and Gilchrist to be the MVP of IPL 2009

A look at the Deccan Chargers' fairytale ride through ESPNcricinfo's T20 stats metrics

22-May-2021•Sampath Bandarupalli

Dan Christian has unfinished IPL business

His record in the tournament, for four teams, has been middling, but on the back of his recent success as a hitter and finisher, he's looking to change that with RCB

23-Mar-2021•Matt Roller

How will teams' strategies change because the IPL is being played in the UAE?

We know from the PSL that scoring is slower, big totals are harder to come by, and running between wickets matters more

17-Sep-2020•Sidharth Monga and Gaurav Sundararaman

Who makes it to our Sunrisers Hyderabad all-time XI?

Does Dale Steyn make it? Is it even possible to leave him out with the numbers he has?

25-May-2020•Saurabh Somani and Gaurav Sundararaman

Summertime, when the livin' was easy

Today's countdown looks at players who had their season or two of fame at the IPL, only to fade away since

13-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

The over 40s... and almost

Today's countdown features players who showed an old voice of wisdom still has value even when music erupts from loudspeakers at the end of each over

10-Mar-2017•ESPNcricinfo staff

Chasing heists

The highest final-over targets successfully chased down in the IPL

21-May-2016•ESPNcricinfo staff

The many teams of Parthiv Patel

08-Apr-2015•Durgesh Haridas

Yuvraj's familiar failing

Plays of the day from the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Pune Warriors

05-Apr-2013•Abhishek Purohit

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