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Local support for visiting teams

Are crowds supporting good cricket and not the much-hyped theory of club loyalty?

01-Jun-2008•Cricinfo staff

Thrills, spills, yawns

How has the IPL been received outside India?

01-Jun-2008•Cricinfo staff

Can Chennai halt Rajasthan's juggernaut?

The Indian Premier League's finale will feature the team that started off like a express train, and another that has enjoyed the smoothest ride through the six weeks

31-May-2008•Dileep Premachandran

Losing the plot when it counts

When it mattered the most, the Kings XI Punjab batting line-up were guilty of choosing the rash over the reliable

31-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

Cut-price Gony outshines pricey stars

Manpreet Gony had finished the league stage with 14 wickets, twice what Ishant Sharma managed, but he saved his best for the biggest game that he's ever played in

31-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

A near-perfect performance

Rajasthan produced a near-perfect performance that crushed Delhi by a 105 runs in the semi-final of the Indian Premier League

30-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

Twenty quick numbers

With the league phase of the IPL finally coming to an end, a look at a few key numbers

29-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

So much for experience

A current Indian Under-19 star and one from the not-too-distant past outdid a side with a wealth of international experience

26-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

Delhi's middle order an Achilles heel no more

This was the match in which Dinesh Karthik and Manoj Tiwary finally justified the exorbitant sums splashed out for them at the IPL auction in February

24-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

The attacking apprentice

In an evening packed with drama and sub-plots that would make any primetime soap proud, Piyush Chawla's vital contribution to Kings XI Punjab's one-run win might easily be overlooked

21-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

Exchange students

The IPL has given young players the opportunity to interact with their elders and betters - both from India and overseas

20-May-2008•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Badly begun is only half done

Some may point to the nature of the pitch but it was nowhere near as inert as some of Bangalore's big-name players were

19-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

Two overs to regret

This was a tale of two overs, the last of the Delhi Daredevils' innings and the fifth of the Kings XI Punjab's reply

17-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

'You have to get going from ball one' - Pollock

Mumbai Indians had a perfect match, but then again, they've been having near-perfect matches for a while now

16-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

Stone throwing mars Delhi's win

Deccan, down, out and lost even for good excuses, Delhi's sense of relief soured by the stone-throwing buffoon. Some days, no one wins

15-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

The lull after the storm

The slowdown in totals seems to be a combination of factors - the changing nature of the pitches, bowlers becoming smarter, the departure of some big-hitting batsmen and increasing pressure on the batsmen as the tournament moves to the semi-final stage

15-May-2008•Sriram Veera

Simmering Jayasuriya finally boils over

Today Jayasuriya cut loose and the effect of his approach was devastating. Mahendra Singh Dhoni strove to curtail his progress but he might as well have just admired the spectacle unfolding in front of him

14-May-2008•Cricinfo staff

An old hand in a new world

Right from the time that he revolutionised top-order batting in ODIs - few teams had ever sent their best man in first before Tendulkar's little dash at Eden Park in 1994 - he has added strokes to his repertoire, remaining a step ahead of bowlers that sou

13-May-2008•Dileep Premachandran

Sachin Tendulkar: Masterful

"You take Don Bradman away and he's next up, I reckon." The verdict of Steve Waugh on Sachin Tendulkar sits alongside many other tributes at the tail end of "Sachin Tendulkar: Masterful" by Peter Murray and Ashish Shukla.

13-May-2008•Review by Stephen Lamb

Ripping the manual

In what's been a fascinating trend in the IPL, some batsmen are creating their own room by staying either beside the line or creating their own line by shuffling to off

13-May-2008•Sriram Veera

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