2023 has undoubtedly been the year for Indian Cricket across formats. Despite a resounding performance in Tests & ODIs, they were unable to get past a familiar foe in Australia who beat India enroute to becoming ICC World Test Champions and also ICC World Cup champions.

This is a beginning of a new season of Cricket Unplugged where I am delighted to have my close friend Mayur: (A proud and sensible ICT & CSK fan) on the podcast to discuss the events that unfolded in the year gone by from the missed ICC trophies for India to relooking at IPL 2023 and the mini auctions that got lot of attention & eye balls rolling!

Enjoy tuning in and heres wishing all the listeners a great end to 2023 and fabulous 2024 ahead!

 10 teams bought as many as 204 players after shelling out a total of ₹551.70 crore at the mega-auction in Bengaluru. Ishan Kishan was the most expensive buy at ₹15.25 crores when MI bought the wicketkeeper-batsman back to their franchise that has won a record five titles!

It was a dramatic mega auction when the auctioneer, Hugh Edmeades had to be replaced by Charu Sharma due to health reasons. Charu took over the mantle within less than thirty minutes notice & did a fabulous job! As this event is touted as the 'biggest event in the cricketing calendar' & its never easy to take centre stage and come out with aplomb! 

We at Cricket Unplugged take a deep look into each franchise and break down each team's best buys. Which are the franchises that have been really good at the player's auctions? Which are the teams that don't look that strong on paper heading into IPL 2022? Can a new champion be crowned this season with the inclusion of two teams; Lucknow Super Giants & Gujarat Titans?

Soraj & myself present our IPL 2022 Auction Review in this super chilled, fun analysis of each squad and also share our personal opinion on some players who have got more than maybe they could have and how its going to be to see regular faces who were part of one franchises for over 5 years represent another team from this year onwards; For all of you who love IPL & especially who have followed the IPL Auctions this is going to be a really enthralling, insightful episode! 

Enjoy listening! 

It has been a long while since we were able to put or stich together an episode for Cricket Unplugged. Looking at how the podcast is growing well despite lack of frequency in publishing the content was an extremely thrilling motivation to present to you all the 49th episode of this podcast & another episode of Cricket Unplugged, Snippets! 

On this comeback of sorts for this podcast after a lull of 3-4 months, we get co-host Sooraj and special guest Mayur Shivakumar pour their hearts out on all the current developments in the game; right from getting their personal thoughts on how the ICC World T20, 2021 shaped up for them as viewers to getting to know their thoughts on the IPL retentions thats doing all the talking on Social Media! 

For all the listeners of the podcast, hope you enjoy this return & definitely both me & Sooraj would certainly be more regular in sharing our love & passion for the game in the upcoming year! Do stay tuned for what's to come up really soon!