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The 7-Week Event’s Constant Cricket And Intense Highs & Lo Drained. But With The World Cup To Follow, All The Talk Is Ab

The show ‘Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians’ has been on Netflix for a while now. It never reaches the height of something like the ‘All or Nothing: Manchester City’ docu-homage, but it does allow us a peek into the dressing-room of a high-profile IPL team when things aren’t going too well.

The IPL journey, as we see in the show, is a roller-coaster ride, and as much as it is about the highs of last-ball victories, it’ bout dealing with the lows of defeats, d Importantly, there’s just no time t Even before a team is able to pro it’s taking the next flight and is bac Win or lose, what IPL does to pla them, and that’s the biggest talkin move into a month and half of cricket. Never before has a 50-ov been scheduled just after the IPL for national teams is to see their for the ICC showpiece event. Wh have stopped their entire World tery from taking part in the tourn stan, for once, will be happy that are not allowed to take part in th There have been experts who h ers should try and preserve them but is that possible once you take t Hardik Pandya, the Mumbai Indi who is coming back from an injury, his team management that he won’t games so that he is fresh for the W will Virat Kohli stop short of thro on the boundary line with Royal Bangalore pushing for their first-e As much as we talk about th theory, franchise-first is bound to the next couple of months. Kohli forget all about his India concerns RCB teammate — the dangerous myer of West Indies — how to d mystery of Kolkata Knight Rid Yadav. Similarly, Rohit Sharma w into the details of the exact length McClenaghan of New Zealand ne stop MS Dhoni, who is looking to the IPL to prepare himself for the Notes will be exchanged, mys decoded, injuries will happen, sti be any let-up in the intensity. Wh champions Chennai Super Kings will use all their experience to make their army of fans happy, star-studded Mumbai Indians will try to shrug off the bitter disappointment of last year and be in the title-race. As KKR’s Dinesh Karthik and Delhi Capitals’ Rishabh Pant try to do enough for themselves — and subsequently for the team — so that they are in the World Cup squad, Steve Smith (Rajasthan Royals) and David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad) will get the feel of competitive cricket all over again after a year’s ban. For RCB and Kohli, it’s only about winning the title and anything less will add to the underachievers’ tag that they have been carrying for a while now.


And before the curtain goes up on our next Prime Minister, India will know whether captain Kohli has been able to break his IPL duck and leave for England on a high for a more meaningful second half of a long summer.