17 years of fighting ... revenge?

Kohli targets lucky 18 in IPL

Virat Kohli will hope to make it 18th time lucky as he embarks this weekend on his latest quest to finally win the IPL, while a 13-year-old could make tournament history. The high-octane T20 competition sees the 10 teams pack 70 league matches into eight weeks before the top four battle for supremacy in the playoffs, culminating in the 25 May final at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. The 36-year-old Kohli, who retired last year from T20Is, silenced his c…

17 years of fighting ... revenge?

The first season of the IPL, which began as Bangalore VS Kolkata exactly seventeen years ago, will now go ahead with the same vigor in 2025. RCB and KKR will play the first match in the IPL time this year, which will start on Saturday 22nd March 22. However, the two teams who started the first IPL tourney in 2008 in 2008, will now face the season opener in Kolkata again 17 years later. There is no such thing as an IPL match between the RCB and K…