Introduction Before IPL 2025, most cricket fans had never heard of Priyansh Arya. The Delhi-based right-handed opener had played domestic cricket without attracting major national attention. Then he arrived at the IPL 2025 auction and Punjab Kings bought him for Rs. 3.80 crore — a significant bet on an uncapped player. When he scored a...
Introduction On May 9, 2025, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced that the Indian Premier League would be suspended. This was not due to weather. Not due to a COVID outbreak. Not due to administrative failure. The IPL was paused because India and Pakistan were in the midst of a serious geopolitical...
Introduction In 17 IPL seasons before 2025, Chennai Super Kings had never finished below 7th place. They had won 5 titles. They had reached 10 finals. They had qualified for the playoffs 14 times. They were, by any measure, the most consistent franchise in the competition’s history. Then came IPL 2025. CSK finished 10th —...
Introduction In the history of the Indian Premier League, no team has ever defended a total as low as 111. Until IPL 2025. Punjab Kings, having posted a modest 111 in their 20 overs — a total that most T20 analysts would call indefensible in a competition where 150 is considered par — bowled out...
Introduction Hat-tricks in T20 cricket are rare. Multiple hat-tricks in T20 cricket are almost mythological. Yuzvendra Chahal, leg-spinner and IPL’s all-time leading wicket-taker, joined an exclusive three-man club on April 30, 2025, when he took his second career IPL hat-trick — this time against Chennai Super Kings at Chepauk. The first had come against KKR...
Introduction Indian cricket has produced many great IPL innings. Virat Kohli’s 973 runs in a season. Suresh Raina’s first-ever IPL century. MS Dhoni’s countless last-ball finishes. But until April 12, 2025, no Indian batter had ever scored more than 128 in a single IPL innings. That record fell when Abhishek Sharma, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s aggressive left-handed...
Introduction In October 2024, Prasidh Krishna was sitting out of cricket with a stress fracture in his back, wondering when — or whether — his bowling body would cooperate again. By June 2025, he had just taken 25 wickets in the IPL, won the Purple Cap, and been named the joint-best bowler in the competition’s...
Introduction Not every record-setter announces themselves with fireworks. Sai Sudharsan, Gujarat Titans’ 23-year-old left-handed opener, won the IPL 2025 Orange Cap with 759 runs in 15 matches at an average of 54.21 and a strike rate of 156.17. He did it not through one headline-grabbing innings but through a season of extraordinary consistency — the...
Introduction There is a moment in sport that stops everything — the scoreboard, the commentary, the crowd, even the game itself. When Vaibhav Suryavanshi raised his bat at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on April 28, 2025, after reaching three figures off just 35 balls, every person watching understood they were seeing something that had...
Introduction On June 3, 2025, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru did something they had been trying to do for 18 seasons. They won the Indian Premier League. The emotion that followed — from Virat Kohli falling to his knees on the outfield, to 30,000 red-clad supporters in the stands losing...