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Happy Birthday MSD!!!

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Hello dear readers!!! Welcome back to the Sports Blog!! Firstly, I would like to thank all those who supported me throughout the IPL 2023 on Instagram, wherein everyday updates were posted about each match! A blog post for the Indian Premier League was definitely on the cards, but due to the rude intrusion of my semester exams almost exactly 2 days after the IPL Final, it has taken me this long to come up with one. Once I had acknowledged my delay, I needed a special day, a special occasion, for this post to release. And here it is, on the birthday of the evergreen Captain Cool, 11 – time IPL Finalist, 5 – time IPL winner, the king of the reigning champions of the IPL, the most successful captain that our country has ever produced – Mahendra Singh Dhoni!!! He led Chennai Super Kings to an enigmatic, record-equalling 5 th IPL Title this year, thus statistically becoming the most successful Captain in IPL history. Let’s take a look at how the IPL 2023 shaped up, and how the Yellow Arm

T20 Legacies of 2023

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Hola Readers!!! Welcome back to the sports blog!!! I know I’ve been sitting quiet for the last 3 months, and I assure y’all that more than enough content is gonna come right up your alley to compensate for that! In this article, I’ve tried to come up with a gist of all the franchise based cricketing action that has happened since the start of this year, and trust me that’s a lot! With less than a day go for the 16th edition of the Indian Premier League to start, we’ll be looking at the global impact of this League on the T20 format of the game, how it has given rise to various franchise based leagues around the world, and the significance it holds in every such league. So, let’s get started!! "Arambikalama...?" = Shall we begin..? The month of January started with 2 major T20 leagues kicking off in their respective inaugural editions, one in the UAE, and another in South Africa. The UAE based league was the International League T20 [ILT20]. It consisted of 6 teams - Abu Dhabi