The IPL is back, with bamboozling tactics aplenty and a debilitating lack of Steve Smith.
51allout: too busy taking on The Man to actually write our own articles.
It’s preview time this week with both the IPL and the County Championship getting the indepth 51allout treatment. Plus debate about Mark Ramprakash’s Test average and a couple of actual sensible points.
The County Championship, Division Two: second-class cricket?
The County Championship, Division One: eight contenders and Shiv Chanderpaul.
The poor man’s Steven Peter Devereux Smith.
Now that the nonsense of Test cricket is out of the way for a while (five days for no result? What a waste of time), it’s time for the glorious return of the IPL. We run the rule over this year’s tournament.
The Aussie domestic season is over and the far more entertaining spectacle of finger pointing has begun.