We cast a wide lens at the new IPL line-ups, captaincy options, retained players and related coverage.

Little-known Australian Daniel Christian was the surprise highest earner at the final day of IPL auction.

Here’s a comprehensive list of players and the prices at which they were bought by IPL teams today.

Indian cricketers in great demand on Day 1 of the auctions. Kochi buy 11 players, Chennai retain four more.

The Cape Town hundred isn’t Tendulkar’s prettiest, but it typifies a Mumbai cricket tradition.

Watch the dance that Graeme Swann has popularised through his Swanny’s Ashes Diary.

Ricky Ponting seems to have lost his focus, his game, his mates and is certain to lose his captaincy if Australia loses the urn.

A lighter look at Dhoni’s absurd toss record, and why Gambhir can go out to toss in Cape Town.

The youngster may return to the Test side in the most challenging circumstances.

Chandrababu Naidu and Jaganmohan Reddy, two of the state’s most influential leaders, have stopped eating, and chief minister Kiran Reddy is struggling to stem the anti-government sentiment. As if that weren’t enough, TRS president Chandrashekhar Rao is now threatening to start his own hunger strike.