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Topic: IPL

After 18-yr wait, RCB clinch 1st-ever IPL title as Punjab Kings fall short in final

Ahmedabad (Gujarat): Finally, after 18 years, it is party time for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) as a brilliant spell from Krunal Pandya and solid...

Digvesh Rathi’s suspension should be a wake-up call. T20 cricket is also a gentleman’s game

The suspension should serve as a wake-up call — not just for Rathi, but for every young gun in the league. Celebrate your success, but know where the boundary is.

IPL expansion will kill Test cricket. Players no longer care about playing for the country

One of the founding philosophies of the BCCI has been to effectively control the game in India. The IPL has dented that control.

OTT isn’t stopping viewers from turning to TV for sports. Now, remove legacy regulations

TV channel prices remain the same whether you are watching the IPL or its highlights three months later. Broadcasters cannot monetise on ‘perceived value’.

Here’s why BCCI took IPL auction to Saudi Arabia—cricket is not the main course

Even if investments into the IPL franchises don’t happen, Saudi involvement can take other routes. The IPL franchises are buying into world cricket.

Cricket and Australian avocados have one thing in common – Brett Lee

For Lee, who is the new Australian avocado ambassador, this role gives him the opportunity to return to his 'second home'.

‘Keyboard’ meme a reminder internet isn’t just for gyan, toxicity. Sometimes it’s just fun

Even Kolkata Knight Riders has joined the trend to celebrate Shreyas Iyer, complete with an anime-style illustration of him accompanying the tweet.

Saudi Arabia eyeing multibillion-dollar stake in IPL, reports Bloomberg News

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's advisers have spoken to govt officials about moving the IPL into a holding company valued at as much as $30 billion, the report said.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.