New Delhi: The Champions from India carry an ammunition store with them in terms of batting; at least Mathew Hayden does, in the form of his mongoose. But even if he fails to set the mongoose loose, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have the likes of Michael Hussey

Mumbai: The Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council on Friday did not take any decision regarding the number of matches to be held in the expanded season four in 2011 when ten teams would be in the fray.

In the flush of its success, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was hailed as the face of the new, thrusting, ambitious India and its swelling status. "It is a global representation of India," claimed the former IPL "commissioner" Lalit Modi, "and what the modern-day India stands for and its successes." Promoting the IPL was promoting India and what some would like to see as the Indian economic "miracle". The virtues of the IPL were presented as the virtues of neoliberal India: the embodiment of the free market and the creative capacities of an unleashed private sector.