As England lick their wounds after their capitulation in Bangladesh, we’ve got some time to … err … try to forget about it all. Here’s a new article from an old friend of the site, a certain Mr James Hindle. He’s been living in Singapore for the last couple of years and has been plying his idiosyncratic brand of cricket with a league side over there. Here’s his report on the local cricket scene … After Tristan Allen’s excellent 2013 piece on Australian...
IPL Team Names – A Confused Foreigner’s Plea
Living in East Asia, I get an awful lot of IPL on television. And IPL highlights. And IPL re-runs. And the IPL Champions Trophy, or whatever it’s called. Leaving aside any snobbish and/or condescending opinions I might have about the quality of IPL cricket, I’d like to share my confusion at the IPL team names, which – the defunct Deccan Chargers aside – make less sense to me than those in the United States or Yorkshire (remember the Phoenix!). I see that they are supposed to be glitzy, but...
