Indian Premier League round up: All the action from week five in the IPL

Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times.

With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.

By Charles Reynolds | Sport | Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 10:04 pm

India’s latest $2m corruption scandal is a very old scam

The latest corruption scandal to embroil India’s coalition government is scarcely a surprise. The nephew of Pawan Kumar Bansal (right), the railways minister, was to be paid Rs100m (about £1.2m) to fix a top Railways Board appointment. Such appointments have been fixed for decades, often financed with money from companies that later benefit, as was [...]

By John Elliott | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 6 May 2013 at 8:35 am

Indian Premier League round up: All the action from week three in the IPL

Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times.

With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.

Here’s all that’s been going on in week three of T20 cricket’s biggest tournament…

By Charles Reynolds | Sport | Wednesday, 24 April 2013 at 2:55 am

Indian Premier League round up: All the action from week two in the IPL

Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times.
With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.

By Charles Reynolds | Sport | Wednesday, 17 April 2013 at 8:30 am

The dark clouds that loom over this year’s Indian Premier League

With just days to go until the sixth edition of cricket’s spangliest slogfest starts in its own predictably overstated style, things are far from perfect in the promised land with several dark clouds looming over the tournament.

By Charles Reynolds | Sport | Saturday, 30 March 2013 at 12:42 pm

Joe Root helps England see the positives despite series defeat in India

The post-match declaration that a team will, ‘try to take the positives from the loss and move on’, is so frequently repeated that it has practically become a reflex action for vanquished captains, a usually meaningless morsel of management speak thrown to a hungry pack of journalists. However sometimes the oldest clichés happen to be wholly appropriate.

By Charles Reynolds | Sport | Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 11:47 pm

The demise of Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been greatly exaggerated

The premature obituary has existed since the birth of journalism. Time and time again through the years, for one reason or another, the demise of a global figure – from Mark Twain to Madonna – has been broadcast to the world a little too hastily.

By Charles Reynolds | Sport | Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 6:23 pm