Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings - Live!

Chennai are currently top of the table, but, umm, unfortunately, they're about to lose their three star overseas players: Mike Hussey, Matthew Hayden and Jacob Oram are all playing their last game for the franchise today, which will surely rather spoil their fans' enthusiasm.

Actually, while I'm in the surely ill-conceived business of recommending the good bits of other people's sites, have a look at Ian Chappell's excellent piece on what's wrong with the IPL, by clicking here. His point, essentially, is that if you want to see naked ladies, go to a strip club, not a cricket ground.

Elsewhere on the internet, the infuriatingly brilliant cricket writer Gideon Haigh has written a piece on mystery spinners, inspired by the little-known Sri Lankan Ajantha Mendis. You can read Gideon's piece here, and, in the brave new world of rejigged super-swish Guardian.co.uk, you can watch some video of Mendis' mind-boggling variations here:

Things I have learnt since I started this OBO: 1) Eating Maltesers ice cream and typing are mutually exclusive activities. 2) Cherry Coke is a good thing. 3) Consuming vast amounts of sugar improves tawdry Monday afternoons.