Is anything more Indian - and foreign - than the IPL?
Telford Vice Share Tweet Aiden Markram is one of three overseas captains in the 2023 edition of the IPL ©BCCI/IPL Is anything more Indian than the IPL? To some Indians that would be a provocation: Yoga, Bollywood and richly varied cuisine, for a start. But, just as it would be arrogant to expect the world to know who or what 'Adho Mukha Svanasana, Shah Rukh Khan or Roti are, it would be naive to assume everyone knows cricket existed in India before April 18, 2008. Since that day, when Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders took to the Chinnaswamy to play the first IPL match, the tournament has done for cricket what slicers have done for bread. Bread that comes in loaves, that is. So not roti. Nor indeed chapati, naan or paratha. Just as true is that Bollywood blares with blingy bombast on screens far from India in the thrall of people who are anything but Indian, and that yoga has, in Westernised countries, been bastardised into exercise muddled with pseudo-...