The Interblogactic IPL Battle

In case you had forgotten, I managed to get a bit carried away with the IPL (there was that woman, remember?) for day or two and have now found myself taking part in the Paddlesweep's spectacular IPL Blogtastic Superblogular battle. Having recently told our Miss Jane that I tend to only write about Australian cricket (with the odd exception), I will soon be a cruel mockery of myself as I write match reports on all Chennai Super Kings matches in the IPL.

I don't plan to stop writing about Australia, though (that would be impossible), so anti-IPL folk like Sir Ian Baggy Green and Wessington, should not feel the need to avoid me like plague.

So, this is how the battle works: there will be 8 teams each represented by a different blog. Each blog will write a match report on their team's match - regardless of victory or loss - meaning that each match will be covered from 2 perspectives. That in itself should be interesting. Points will be given for a win as well as the quality of the post. In the end there will be a winner. And we all know it will probably be CWB, but who cares? It should be fun and there should be some good reads.

Without much further ado, the participating blogs are:

• Paddlesweep - Deccan Chargers
• Cricket with Balls - Delhi Daredevils
• The Cricketer (proud daddy of a new baby girl, in case anyone didn't know) - Kings XI Punjab
• Sportzfreak - Kolkata Knight Riders
• Poshin's World - Royal Challengers Bangalore
• All Padded Up - Mumbai Indians
• Forward Short Leg - Rajasthan Royals
• and Yours Truly will be looking at CSK

We're but days away now, people (1st match, March 12th Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders) - let's start the insanity!