Number of fogging machines to be deployed at Motera to counter the moth menace. Number of spectators who have bought face masks with breathing filters to counter the fogging menace: 4800.
Mar 23, 2010

Number of times captains will be fined US$20,000 for slow over-rates in the IPL. Number of times they'll blame Yusuf Pathan's sixes for the delay: 18; the cheerleaders' racy outfits: 3; the humidity for slowing the ball: 7; having to update their Twitter feeds: 6
Mar 19, 2010

Number of hours after the final ODI that West Indian IPL players will board flights for India. Number of them who will request to be excused from the post-match presentation so they can leave in two hours: 6
Mar 15, 2010

Number of Bollywood types who are desperately brushing up on their knowledge of cricket for the IPL. Number of assorted starlets among them, hoping to get on reality shows by being seen on TV dancing vivaciously in Shah Rukh Khan's box: 433. Number of those who hope to bid for franchises in future: 44
Mar 11, 2010

Number of players who will try the ramp shot in the IPL. Those who'll succeed: 3; those who'll break their jaws trying: 26; who'll crick their backs: 20; who'll hit the keeper with their bats: 5
Mar 8, 2010

Number of times a year Chris Gayle uses "disappointed" and "sad" to describe his team's performance. Number of times fans think he should replace them with "unfit for international cricket" and "bunch of overpaid underachievers": 9880
Mar 5, 2010

Number of interns in publishing offices around the world tasked with monitoring Lalit Modi's Twitter for IPL and Champions League-related news. Number of them who created Twitter accounts solely to ask Modi leading questions: 311
Mar 2, 2010

Number of articles that will make snide references to Brett Lee prolonging his Bollywood and singing career, now that he has announced his retirement from Tests. Number of music and film fans who are pleased at the prospect: 0
Feb 23, 2010

Number of Lalit Modi tweets that are not about the IPL. Ones about the Champions League: 2; about his celebrity friends: 3; thanking fans for their undying support: 5.
Feb 21, 2010

Number of Indian news channels planning to boycott the IPL. Those that will replace it with England-Bangladesh series coverage: 1; with hockey coverage: 3; Shahrukh Khan interviews: 30.
Feb 17, 2010

Number of Bangladeshis waiting to welcome Paul Collingwood with wooden golf clubs. Those intending the clubs to be used for putting, chipping, driving, hooking etc: 0. Those planning to use them for clubbing, shoving, mashing and thwacking: 468.
Feb 12, 2010

Number of people who believe Gayle's prediction of a 4-1 win for West Indies in Australia. Those that don't include Gayle and his mummy: 0
Feb 8, 2010

Percentage of Australia's population that has invaded a cricket pitch over the last five years. Percentage of those among that number who did so inebriated: 66.69; undressed: 5; percentage who got shoulder-charged: 0.001
Feb 3, 2010

Number of times an hour Pakistani players check their phones to see if they missed calls from IPL franchises. Corresponding number for calls from wives: 3; from English counties: 2; from Ijaz Butt: 0
Jan 29, 2010

Number of people who are excited that Sri Lanka and India may play a full series later in the year. Number of terminal masochists among these: 3; those seeking euthanasia: 2; chronic insomniacs: 3
Jan 25, 2010

Number of players on auction that IPL franchise owners didn't know. Number of times Shilpa Shetty asked if she could have David Beckham in her team: 12
Jan 22, 2010

Number of players at the Under-19 World Cup with sponsored blogs; with publishing deals for autobiographies: 3; with bed-time curfews back home: 240
Jan 19, 2010

Number of people who watched the launch of the 2011 World Cup in Bangladesh. ICC executives: 80; BCCI officials and sycophants: 290; Sri Lanka and Bangladesh board members: 30
Jan 16, 2010

Number of people who know there is a tri-series on in Bangladesh. Number of Pakistanis among those, who wish their side was playing there instead of in Australia: 899.
Jan 11, 2010

Number of allegations that will be hurled in relation to Pakistan's loss in Australia. Number of aspersions cast: 121; salvos launched: 97; sub-committees formed: 12
Jan 7, 2010