The Real Game – The joys of watching cricket in whites, The Telegraph

As a member of the Karnataka State Cricket Association I have free entry to all matches played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. However, I have never exercised that privilege in the case of the Indian Premier League. More or less my only IPL memory is from the first edition of the tournament, when, dining in a Bangalore restaurant sometime in 2008, I passed the television en route to the rest room, and found Shane Warne on the screen. The greatest of all spin bowlers had recently retired from Test cr...