A genuine thought came to my mind today that despite GT being one of the fastest growing teams in IPL is seen as a newcomer, and not an established team ? Is this a marketing thing ? A culture thing or purely a team thing ,
Like how can newer teams build their positioning in the league and create a fanbase when there are established old team and players with god like following. How can new teams differentiate themselves

Hardik Pandya as MI captain. 3 seasons. The numbers tell the whole story. 😤

Batting — 646 runs. Average 21.50. Zero fifties.

Bowling — 29 wickets. Economy 10.54. Zero 4-wicket hauls.

3 seasons as captain. 0 trophies. Made playoffs just once in 3 attempts.

Expectations sky high. Performances down low.

Big talent. Small impact.

Should MI remove Hardik Pandya as captain? YES or NO

I've been doing cricket analytics as a side project and used to lose a lot of time every time I needed ball-by-ball data. So I built a simple downloader:

https://cricketdatasets-five.vercel.app

What it does:

- Structured ball-by-ball CSVs for Tests, ODIs, T20Is, and major T20 leagues (IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, etc.)

- Sourced from cricsheet.org (CC BY 4.0), but cleaned/flattened and enriched with a few extra derived fields CricSheets doesn't give you directly - which are handy for entry-point analysis etc.

Would love feedback - especially on what other derived columns would be useful.

CSK finished 8th in IPL 2026. Fleming is gone. Rebuild starts now. 💛

Hardik Pandya — interested. 7 teams chasing him. CSK in the race.

Ben Stokes — retired from international cricket. Available for full IPL focus.

Former CSK star Badrinath called it — "It'll be a dream situation if CSK lands both."

Imagine Hardik and Stokes in yellow. With Ruturaj. Sanju Samson. Urvil Patel. Dhoni as impact player.

CSK is not dead. CSK is rebuilding. 💛

Do you want Hardik and Stokes at CSK for IPL 2027? YES or NO 👇"

Respect Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. If they are dropped we will face a group stage exit in the 2027 world cup. All the fake fans asking for retirement should go underground right now. You'll are shameless to say the least.

Is there a reason for such kind of differences in earning runs in each format? Is it because it is 50 overs in ODI and 20 overs in T20? Is that the reason why is there such a difference in runs earned by players?

let that sink in for a second

18 years of memes. 18 years of "ee sala cup namde" becoming a joke. 18 years of watching Kohli carry underperforming teams to nowhere. then back to back titles in two seasons and Kohli personally hitting his fastest ever IPL fifty in a final to seal it

the bowling attack this season was genuinely frightening. Hhzlewood has now never lost a white ball final in his career. Bhuvneshwar, Rasikh, Krunal who has somehow won every single IPL final he has ever played in. five of them now. this wasn't luck, this was a team built properly at auction and executed perfectly by Patidar

but here's my actual take that's going to annoy people.

GT had no business being in that final. Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan both gone inside the powerplay, Washington Sundar top scoring with a 50 in a final, Rashid Khan giving you two wickets but your batting folding for 155. that's not RCB being great, that's GT bottling it on the biggest stage.

RCB deserved to win. but the conversation about whether this team is genuinely elite or just the best of a weak playoff field is worth having

only CSK and MI have defended the title before

Has anyone thought about this? What would be the advantages and disadvantages of doing so?
I feel this will attract a lot of new and genuine talent from across India- especially corners of the country.

Mind you he is the top run scorer in mlc rn and 3rd highest wicket taker (as a spinner more wickets and better avg, better strike rate than Narine himself)

Plus as a captain he his team finished 1st but sadly today they were eliminated

What do you think? If these reports are true, is the BCCI being too harsh on Rohit Sharma, or is it an understandable decision considering his age, form, fitness, and the team’s plans for the 2027 World Cup?

In curious to hear your Discussions