Dear fellow RCB devotees...

With the first leg of T20 overkill done and dusted in Bangladesh, the second one, Internationally acclaimed domestic T20 cricket aka the IPL is all set to begin in UAE. So here comes the multizillion dollar question, "What should one expect from the Royal Challengers of Bangalore this time around?" A few frowns, a few sighs & more...

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Memories & Moments - T20 WC 2014 (Twitter round-up)

What a tournament it was for Team India. Like a friend said, we came from "We won't get to the semifinals" to "HOW DID WE MESS THAT UP? HOW?" Speaks volumes, doesn't it? Before everyone gets into IPL mode, here are what fellow Twitter people had to share about the tournament. Enjoy! Anand Natarajan [@aThakkali] I would have ideally loved to have written this happily from the winner’s corner rather than with a team...

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Madcap Recap Part II

Continued from Madcap Recap, the World Cup diares, Part I, March 24, 2014. Another great performance and I think my prediction has gone terrible. Yet again. The last thing I predicted was Virat Kohli will fail in South Africa. The last time Dhoni lost a toss, the match was abandoned. That was the luck of Ms Dhoni and tosses. With the bowling attack built around spin, he can’t afford to lose the toss he has been successful so...

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Madcap Recap Part I

A first phase of T20 overkill before the Tamasha cricket is done and dusted.  Probably the only tournament which has a qualifying round one for the minnows even after respective teams qualifying for the tournament. The joke that is, is over now. This had everything from- TRP fixture aka the India v Pakistan to the mandatory India v Sri Lanka to South Africa reduced to a joke in multinational tourneys to England crumbling...

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