Right now, YouTube’s IPL channel has over 49.5 million views. [..] Viewers from 200 countries have watched the streams. Unsurprisingly, India has the most views overall; coming in second is the United States — YouTube had expected that spot to go to the UK or Australia, where cricket gets far more attention.
Remember Allen Stanford? Turns out he might have had a point about how Twenty20 could popularise cricket in the US …
Poor wickets, crap fielding, lucky batsmen, lousy umpires
“From Holland to the highlands” is the subtitle of a new Cricinfo-blog by Rene van Oorschot. A must read of course, since it is Dutch, written in English, about cricket …
If evidence was ever needed to confirm Tendulkar’s status as the world’s most-adored cricketer, it can be found in our logs
Cricketers are easier to fall in love with than any other sportsmen. It is do with the amount of time they are on TV. While footballers and rugby players get only an hour and a half in front of the cameras, the length of a cricket series flushes out the characters, imperfections and nuances of our men in white.
