A day after the summit clash in the fifteenth edition of the Indian Premier League is a good time to turn the gaze to some of the questions the league started with – and some of the questions it left in its trail. Many followers of the sport would like to look back in hindsight, particularly given that the tournament is, to use a much-repeated phrase, going through a transitional churn.
After finding its homeland on foreign soil after the pandemic-induced hiatus of two years, the current IPL was the first to be played after the new auctions caused significant changes in team compositions. But a far more unknown quantity was its bloated form with the inclusion of two new teams: Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants.
