BLR 27 Mar, tbc M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Bengaluru
Home. The red sea starts at the Cubbon Park gates.
The road in
The home ground. The season starts here. In town Wed, 24 March 2027 to Mon, 29 March 2027; match on Sat, 27 March 2027, tbc at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Dates are illustrative until the official IPL 2027 fixtures are published.
A city that argues about weather and traffic and agrees on one thing. Red shirts on the Metro by 4pm. The drum section starts before the toss.
Floodlights over the Chinnaswamy, seen from the Cubbon Road side at dusk.
What we ate
Filter coffee in a steel tumbler at 6am, benne dosa with a slab of butter that outlasts the dosa, and a plate of Mangalore buns at a darshini counter, standing up.
After dark
A city that argues about weather and traffic and agrees on one thing. Red shirts on the Metro by 4pm. The drum section starts before the toss.
- The convoy parks on Cubbon Road and a hundred phones come out.
- The Metro at Cubbon Park at 6pm is a red river.
- A dosa seller near the stadium has done the match-night rush for twenty-two years.
Matchday at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
The Chinnaswamy is small and loud and the boundary is short. The crowd sings the whole innings. When the home side chases, the stadium leans forward.
The Bengaluru roll
