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The three-peat wasn't to be and Kolkata were deserving champions, but I was thoroughly proud of my boys for fighting till the finish. In the end, those 10 runs we failed to get at the death made the difference. Still, we shouldn't have even qualified for the playoffs. We nearly made the most of our second life. Can't wait for next year's edition. ( Read more... )

Fourth final in five seasons. Third in a row. Two-time defending champions. Semi-finalist in 2009. Scraped through the league phase. Title-decider at home. Who writes CSK's scripts? MSD!

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The *helicopter shot* is Dhoni's trademark and to score it off an attempted Malinga yorker at the death of the innings was sensational. But then Dwayne Bravo topped it with pure comedy ( Read more... )

Years from now, heck perhaps even just months from now, the purists (because all such people are obviously cricket lovers) will look back at three unrelated events that changed the course of cricketing history for ever. First there was Subhash Chandra's Zee TV losing out the rights to broadcast half a decade's worth (or maybe more) of Indian ( Read more... )

An Indian cricket crowd is like a particle accelerator experiment involving human beings."

Tim Blair on his conversion to Twenty20. If Tim loves it, everybody should!

MS Dhoni - $1,500,000 ($400,000) - Chennai - 1st rd - IND ( Read more... )