S Rajesh

1 week ago | espn.in | S Rajesh

IPL 2024 set new benchmarks in terms of high scores and aggressive batting. Can the 2025 season match that? ESPNcricinfo will do a comparison throughout the current edition, comparing numbers at the same point last season. Here's what the stats say after 29 matches of each season. After a lull in scoring rates, which lasted about 10 games this season, the bat is dominating the ball again in IPL 2025.

2 weeks ago | espn.in | S Rajesh

IPL 2024 set new benchmarks in terms of high scores and aggressive batting. Can IPL 2025 season match that? ESPNcricinfo will do a comparison throughout the current edition, comparing numbers at the same point last season. Here's what the stats say after 19 matches of both seasons. The calm after the stormAfter a blistering start to IPL 2025, the scoring rates have calmed down considerably. In the first five games of the season, the average run rate was 10.7, with three 240-plus totals.

3 weeks ago | espn.in | S Rajesh

IPL 2024 set new benchmarks in terms of high scores and aggressive batting. Can the 2025 season match that? ESPNcricinfo will do a comparison throughout the current edition, comparing numbers at the same point last season. Here's what the stats say after 11 matches of each season. The first five matches of IPL 2025 were a relentless barrage of runs, but the bowlers have hit back strongly in the last six games.

4 weeks ago | espn.in | Alagappan Muthu |Sidharth Monga |S Rajesh

Whoever designed the schedule for IPL 2025 wasn't even trying to be subtle. They made sure the two biggest games of the season would take place in its very first week. This is excess bordering on gluttony. An ice-cream sundae with not so much a cherry on top but another ice-cream sundae. Tickets for Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru vanished almost as soon as they opened. For a lot of Indian cricket fans, seeing either one of Virat Kohli or MS Dhoni is up there as a bucket list item.

4 weeks ago | espn.in | Sidharth Monga |Alagappan Muthu |S Rajesh

Big picture: CSK vs RCB, a one-sided but high-voltage rivalryThis should be a dream match for the hype machine. Two of the three teams that have created a ferociously loyal fanbase at the grounds and on the internet. They represent capital cities of neighbouring states that share a river, often acrimoniously; whose rulers traversed boundaries repeatedly before the borders as we know them came to exist; whose people now build their lives in each other's states.