Andy Zaltzman has a hilarious look on the IPL and has some really funny terms in his dictionary. These two are my fav:
D: Duckworth-Lewis method
An obviously unfair system for adjudicating the winner of rain- or apocalypse-interrupted matches, relying excessively on mathematics and science rather than the randomised guesswork that had always served limited-overs cricket well in the past. In the next season’s IPL, unfinished matches will be awarded following a dance-off between the two sides’ dancing-girl squad – a far fairer way of determining the superior franchise.
B: Buchanan
John Buchanan is a revolutionary Australian coach who, when in charge of Australia, transformed the world’s best team into still the world’s best team. Famously innovative and unorthodox, as coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders he has found innovative and unorthodox methods to lose almost all the games his team has played. Rumoured to have earmarked a different captain to lead each different kind of defeat. Also rumoured to be planning to turn the Knight Riders into sport’s first entirely electronic franchise next year, in an attempt to prove his theory that cricket would be more efficiently played by computers instead of people.
