The 8th season of the Indian Premier League concluded just a few days back, with Mumbai Indians emerging as the champions for the second time after defeating the perennial title contenders Chennai Super Kings. The eight teams participating in the tournament had spent millions of dollars in this year’s player auction to fill their team… Read More »How much was each player actually worth in IPL 2015?
The auction for the Indian Premier League season in 2015 is about to commence in a few hours. We will be updating the results of the auction on the IPL player salary page in real time, as soon as the results of the player auctions are announced. Per the official IPL home page, there are… Read More »Indian Premier League player auction 2015
The Cricket World Cup 2015 is just a day away. We just launched the pre-tournament predictions of the World Cup matches. However, we believe that you can do a better job of predicting Cricket matches and want your help in accomplishing that. Yes, you can indeed help us in getting better predictions. When you go… Read More »Crowdsourcing match predictions
The Cricket ODI World Cup 2015 is about to begin in a couple of days. For the first time, we are generating the pre-tournament prediction of all the league matches of the World Cup (see the predictions page). This is not something you will find on any other Cricket or Sports website, but we have… Read More »Pre-tournament predictions for World Cup 2015
Mahendra Singh Dhoni‘s sudden retirement from Test Cricket during the ongoing India-Australia Test series caught everyone by surprise. As the Dhoni era in Indian Cricket enters its sunset, it is a fair question to ask what kind of legacy Dhoni is leaving behind, and where does he stand relative to his predecessors, as well as… Read More »Dhoni’s legacy as a Test Cricket captain
Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan were all born almost within a year of each other in the years 1976-1977. The three of them together have been the pillar of Sri Lankan Cricket in the first decade of the 21st century, carrying the team on their shoulders ever since the heroes of the 1996… Read More »Imagining Sri Lankan Cricket team without their top three
By now everyone in the Cricketing world knows about the awesome knock of 264 runs played by Rohit Sharma against Sri Lanka, which shattered many records. Scoring a double century in ODIs even once is a terrific achievement. Doing it twice is certainly an extremely rare feat, and it is unlikely to be accomplished by… Read More »Will the real Rohit Sharma please stand up?
Rohit Sharma just broke the record for the highest runs in an ODI inning when he hit scored 264 runs against the Sri Lankans. This gave Rohit Sharma several exclusive records, among them being the first batsman to have the ODI double-double (two double centuries in ODIs), the only batsman to score 250+ runs in… Read More »The evolution of most runs in an ODI inning record
We have uploaded the player ranking for the just concluded seventh season of Indian Premier League on the IPL player ranking page. On that page, you can also find the respective player rankings for all the previous seasons of IPL as well.You can find the detailed method for computing the player ranks in one of… Read More »IPL 2014 player ranking
The seventh season of IPL finally moves from the Arabian desert back to India. This is the right time to look back at the first leg of the tournament, and take a stock of how our model of evaluating players and team strengths have performed so far. Currently, each team has played a total of… Read More »IPL 2014: Mid-tournament ranking of teams