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After the infamous stint with the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL-2 John Buchanan has recently released a book called ‘ The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20 ‘ in which talks about T20 and IPL in particiular.In this book he commented on various Indian players and also on [...]

The defending champion Rajastan Royals were knocked out of IPL by Kolkata Knight Riders.The Royals playing for their semi final slot were beaten by Kolkata team playing for the pride.KKR with this win take along with Rajastan Royals for the return trip.
Winning the toss KKR’s Brendon Mccullum elected to field first taking a cue from [...]

These are the sequence of events preceding the start of IPL on 18th April, 2009.

March 1st, 2009: Mr. Lalit Modi loses election for the post of President in Rajasthan Cricket Association.
March 6th, 2009: Mr. Modi quotes that there was no question of IPL moving out [...]

Kolkata breaks the Jinx

Chris Gayle’s heavily flooded knock of 44 in 26 balls with 4 sixes and 2 fours gave the KolkataKnight Riders their first victory in IPL-2. He was well supported by captain McCullam(21) and Hodge(10 n.o). Gayle was fortunate to be dropped twice and Punjab had to pay for the costly misses. [...]

Kolkata Knight Riders:
The Knight Riders are back to bang this IPL, with a new concept and theory. The Bollywood King Shah Rukh Khan’s KKR selected New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum as new captain of the team on Wednesday. John Buchanan, coach of KKR introduced the concept multiple captaincy for the tournament. This laid a controversy [...]

Finally, the time has come when ganguly again finds himself in a situation he is familiar with. He has been stripped of his captaincy by the coach “Buchanan” and the new skipper for at least next few matches would be the New Zealand Wicket Keeper Bredon McCullam. Clearly, there seems to be utter confusion and [...]