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Introduction Before the IPL, Indian cricketers’ exposure to the world’s best players came through international matches: occasional series, tours, and global tournaments that might total 50-60 matches per year for the busiest players. The IPL changed that completely. From 2008 onwards, India’s domestic players were competing in the same dressing rooms, the same training sessions,...

Introduction Every December, a room in an Indian city fills up with franchise representatives, television cameras, and a group of young cricketers whose careers — and financial lives — will be changed irreversibly by an afternoon of bidding. The IPL auction is cricket’s most dramatic institutional ritual. For uncapped Indian players, it represents an opportunity...

Introduction Every sport has its legendary home grounds — places where visiting teams know, before a ball is bowled, that they are at a structural disadvantage. In the IPL, no home advantage is as consistently decisive as Chennai Super Kings at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, more commonly known as Chepauk. Over 17 IPL seasons,...

Introduction In 2013, Mumbai Indians made a decision that looked controversial at the time and looks visionary in hindsight: they replaced Ricky Ponting — one of the greatest captains in cricket history — with Rohit Sharma, a 26-year-old who had shown exceptional batting talent but no evidence that he could lead a complex franchise at...

Introduction When KKR signed Varun Chakravarthy at the 2019 IPL auction for Rs. 8.4 crore, the cricket world said: who? He was 27 years old. He had played a handful of Tamil Nadu domestic matches. He had studied and practiced architecture. He was not on anyone’s list of top Indian spin prospects. Within 18 months,...