Far from being a negative, the ambivalence felt by most cricket-following South Africans towards the Indian Premier League (IPL) is its greatest attraction. So many fascinating storylines can be followed at a pace of your choosing and safe in the knowledge that the outcome will, at most, be “interesting”.

Dispassionate, objective analysis of teams in which you have an active, even passionate interest is hard, it takes effort and commitment and fails more often than not. For the vast majority of us (with apologies to a few thousand teenagers who almost certainly don’t read this column) it comes delightfully easily when the IPL is on the telly...

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