Analysis: The hits and flops of IPL 5

The fifth edition of the Indian Premier Leagueis over. Kolkata Knight Riders lived up to their top billing, outclassing Chennai Super Kings in the final to win their maiden IPL title. Purnendu Maji......

Gilchrist is IPL's most valuable player

Adam Gilchrist is IPL 2009's most valuable player. If his batting, bowling and fielding performance is expressed only in terms of 'runs', he is seen to have scored a staggering 753 runs. And we......

PVI and MVPI after the IPL league matches

MVPI after the league matches Rank Player Team From Runs Balls Bat Pts Bb Rc W Bowl Pts Ct St Run Outs Field Pts M MVPI 1 S Jayasuriya MI SL 514 309 616.0 126 159 4 73.0 2 2 40 14 729 2 Shane......

PVI 43: Eight lessons from the IPL auction

It's interesting to look back at the IPL player auction in February 2008 and see if there are some lessons to learn from an event that shook the cricketing fraternity. These are random thoughts,......

CB tri-series: Bracken is MVP

Australia's left-armer pacerNathan Bracken proved to be the most valuable player (MVP) of the Commonwealth Bank tri-series. Not surprisingly, he was alsonamed asthe Man of the Series for the......