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Vijay Narayanan on April 29th, 2008

The Super Kings beat the Deccan Chargers to extend their run to 4 games! Rock on, Chennai! Lefties & T20 Selva has an interesting observation about whether left-handed batsmen have an advantage in Twenty20 cricket. One possible explanation, if this hypothesis were found true, is that most bowlers are naturally suited to bowl to right [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 27th, 2008

One of the nicest things about the Indian Premier League is that the Chennai team lead the pack now. Still the only unbeaten team in the league, the Kings of Chennai rock! Incidentally, I thought the Mumbai Indians would do better than lose four in a row.

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Vijay Narayanan on April 18th, 2008

After months of anticipation, the Indian Premier League kicked off today with a meek surrender by the Bangalore Royal Challengers, whose batting was neither royal, nor seemed like posing any challenge to the others teams in the league. Kolkata, in contrast, turned out to be awesome (though I am not impressed by their team name). [...]

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