Deccan Chargers?

< 1 minute readWhich ones are Deccan Chargers? This is the problem we’re having with the IPL. The teams have no real identities. It’s impossible to remember who’s who. Here’s what we can easily remember: We support Kings XI Punjab. Kolkata Knight Riders is Ganguly’s team, because Ganguly is The Prince of Calcutta

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What being a Kings XI Punjab fan ACTUALLY MEANS

< 1 minute readThis appears in a section entitled ‘team mandate’. Apparently: “We are all Punjabis; by heritage, by birth or by choice.” That’s nice and inclusive and very fortunate when you’re marketing a franchise that doesn’t really have a great deal of regional appeal beyond the name. So we’re Punjabi. Who knew?

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The Kings XI Punjab website

2 minute readNow that we’re a Kings XI Punjab fan, we should probably find out something about them. To the Kings XI Punjab website! It’s loading! It’s still loading! At least there’s plenty of time to get worked up about just how AMAZING the site’s going to be. Plenty of time. We

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Kings XI Punjab IPL team song

< 1 minute readCan’t believe we thought the Kolkata Knight Riders theme tune was good. This urinates all over it. Our sole criticism is that they didn’t use that monstrously fat Sikh singer. We don’t know his name. Anyone? Thanks to Soviet Onion for wasting his work time to find this.

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Choose your IPL team

< 1 minute readWe nearly went for Bangalore Royal Challengers, because they’ve got Rahul Dravid, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Misbah-ul-Haq and Dale Steyn. We nearly went for Deccan Chargers, because they’ve got VVS Laxman, Herschelle Gibbs, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Shahid Afridi. We’re not a massive fan of several of those players, but the

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