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After an extended period of many T20 cricket matches RCB have retained the Indian Premier League cricket title beating the Titans at the Narendra Modi stadium.

Players on both teams will be familiar to a UK audience but Virat Kohli scored the winning runs while Jos Buttler kept wicket for the Titans.

There were 2332 fours scored during the 2026 IPL, with fewer but still significant sixes also scored. While the T20 format is familiar the IPL does sometimes have the feel of a Whackit contest with the balance between bat and ball lacking.

Kagiso Rabada took the most wickets-27, while Jofra Archer came third with 25. Archer is not playing in Thursday’s first Test at Lords despite being a centrally contracted England player.

The IPL gets huge audiences- if falling a bit- and is shown by Sky in the UK. There is little MSM media coverage here but the audience of those with a South Asian background is certainly significant.

The IPL franchise runs T20 competitions in a number of other countries and there is talk of the IPL itself extending beyond its already lengthy series and perhaps launching as a global cricket presence (which to some extent it already is)

It might be argued that its cricket but not as we know it.