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Almost perfection

Delhi Daredevils, inspired by AB de Villiers' superbly-paced century, held their nerve in the field to beat Chennai Super Kings in the first close game of IPL 2

23-Apr-2009•Karna S

Australians shine but in the wrong place

Australia's embarrassing defeat to Pakistan stemmed in part from a lack of experience and coincided with the free-scoring form of Gilchrist and Hayden in the IPL

22-Apr-2009•Alex Brown

Gilchrist lends weight to opening statements

The wisdom ahead of this tournament as experts tried to compare and contrast Indian conditions with those in South Africa was that the new ball was going to be crucial. It has indeed been crucial, but just not in the way people expected

22-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Playing hot, staying cool

Chris Gayle played a typically audacious innings, with some stylishly cool big-hitting, to give Kolkata their first win of the IPL season

21-Apr-2009•Karna S

The worst starts, and the best records against Australia

Zero for 4 and all that, an old Australian foe, and most ducks in ODIs

21-Apr-2009•Steven Lynch

The Big Bang Theory

The story of Yusuf Pathan in some ways is the story of Rajasthan Royals. Unknown in the big league prior to the tournament, he was one of Shane Warne's boys who took the IPL route to stardom

20-Apr-2009•Sriram Veera

Disappointment on the collision course

As with the Kolkata captaincy issue, the showdown between England's two big beasts, Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen, did not quite live up to its billing

20-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

'I take a shower every day'

Hygiene, nicknames, freeloaders, arson and more in this interview with the Mumbai Indians' enfant terrible

20-Apr-2009•Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi

West Indies must make use of long warm-up

West Indies cricketers better be down to business from ball one this morning in Leicester if they are to make the most of the busiest lead-in to a Test series away from home for nine years

20-Apr-2009•Fazeer Mohammed

Ireland take trophy, Afghans the headlines

It took 12 teams 54 matches spread over 19 days to determine the best of the rest, the countries next in the queue for an ICC handout and those fortunate four who will play in the 2011 World Cup

20-Apr-2009•Will Luke in Johannesburg

Leadership, Kolkata's wafer-thin mint

The multiple-captains saga has hung around the otherwise fragrant Kolkata Knight Riders like a bad smell

19-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Wasted time

The time-out as it has been presented is nonsensical enough. But when rain is in the air, as it was at Newlands on Sunday, it becomes a self-defeating fiasco and a triumph for sheer greed over the paying public

19-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Malinga, Mexican waves, and a mutt

A fan braves the drizzle to watch Nayar clobber Freddie, a dog wander around the outfield, and celebrities hog the big screen on the opening day of the IPL

19-Apr-2009•Samantha Smith

Bemused Cape Town watches IPL take off

However much the IPL's organisers tried, they faced one insurmountable problem: Cape Town never was, and never will be, in India

18-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Pietersen makes the perfect start

Twenty20 captaincy feels like a lottery at times but pretty much everything Kevin Pietersen did came off. He may as well just ride the wave

18-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

Warne wizardry lights up veterans' day

Shane Warne's night was ruined by a shoddy batting performance from his team. But what a pleasure he was to watch. We must be grateful that he is still in our lives, however briefly

18-Apr-2009•Sambit Bal

Calm Tendulkar sets tone for IPL 2

It was a strange kind of start, but Tendulkar's thoughtfulness made it an intriguing, and possibly tone-setting, one

18-Apr-2009•Victor Brown

The refugees arrive

Cricket has acted as a vehicle for good in a country not used to celebrating

18-Apr-2009•Will Luke

Hits and Myths

Sriram Veera explains some Twenty20 tactics, lifts the veil on some common misconceptions, raises some questions - and sticks his neck out answering them

18-Apr-2009•Sriram Veera

Marsh, Watson, and several other stars

The IPL wasn't timed perfectly for those who were in the national Australian team, but despite that handicap, the Australians made their presence felt quite amply in the 2008 tournament

16-Apr-2009•S Rajesh

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