You know, the Royal Challengers really ought to have won that game. They had Chennai on the ropes until Hussey and Dhoni turned things around, and Dhoni whacked them all over the park in the last two overs. Then Jaffer and Taylor had the game all but won, but could not stay to see it through. Dravid was unlucky – given out LBW off his first ball when Hawkeye said it was going well over, but his team just isn’t working, and Taylor, who has been one of the highlights of the squad, will be off to England with the New Zealand side soon.

Meanwhile, on the BBC’s TMS blog, Aggers is giving his view of the IPL. Happily he isn’t condemning it outright. He does, however, suggest that it may be time to scrap the 50-over game, because otherwise there just won’t be room for everything in the crowded cricket calendar. I think he might be right.

Talking of commentators, I have been pleased to hear the Indian media folks enthusing about how much good having all those foreign players is doing for the Indian game. They are forever saying how much young Indian cricketers, particularly those lucky enough to get into the IPL squads, will be learning. If the same tournament took place in the UK you can bet that the commentators would be forever complaining about how the overseas players were denying English players a living and ruining England’s chances of competing internationally. Poms whinge. It is in their genes.