The players from Chennai and Delhi could teach us all a few things about good behaviour

You’re a useless waste of space and now you can pay for the privilege of having a former India captain tell you so

The Rajasthan government may have banned the dancing girls but Andrew Hughes has a plan

Collingwood, Gambhir, Kallis – the Delhi-Bangalore game was short on flamboyance

Even Hitchcock couldn't have inflicted such psychological torment on his audience as the Kings XI did in their match against Bangalore

The IPL commentators can't get enough of the moon and the bag of hot air that hangs above the stadium

They have the other IPL requirements: gaudy shirts, batsmen, cheerleaders, and a drummer

A bloodcurdling cry of despair, hope, challenge and angst brings the IPL thrillingly alive

If you don't tell Andrew Hughes, he might create some wild fantasies of his own about the break

Warne and Co are so over

The Middlesex batsman's split-personality, VVS Laxman's no-change personality and Mike Haysman's dew-obsessed one were all to be seen on the opening day of the IPL

Welcome to West Indies v Zimbabwe, where the pitches are lifeless, the batsmen clueless and the crowd cacophonic

There's been enough talk of the decline of the game in the Caribbean

Just how bad was the Twenty20 between Zimbabwe and West Indies

Players will only put you to sleep with their repetitive inanities

A beautiful place where time before the Big Boom was spent by Pakistan acting like silly billies

For ages they only measured how far ahead Australia were, but now ordinary punters care about them

Why all the coyness about the IPL being a cash-farming opportunity like no other?

Paul Collingwood and Chris Gayle present watertight cases for curtailing players' right to open their mouths; and a prediction for the Kumble-Tayfield trophy

Marigolds on the players’ balcony