Illustration/Uday Mohite

So I'm an IPL beast. Nothing will stop me from watching matches well into the night. Five weeks of sleep deprivation, staggering into work, nothing phases me. My European Football League and post-Arsene Wenger Arsenal pals disdainfully look at me with, “How can you still watch that rigged circus?” My test cricket chaddi buddies, sneeringly say, “Hah, T20 that's not the real thing.”