Cricketainment

A genre of sport, few months old, captures the headlines for several days in a row. Enter cricketainment, the newest avatar of T-20 cricket, packaged so sleek that it has managed to make the Eden full-house on a day when the mercury nearly touched 40 degrees.

Thanks must go to the Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan to have ensured an ensemble of VVIPs rarely seen in the city, not to speak of his electrifying presence, full of energy and with full-throated support for the team he co-owns.

Here are some glimpses of the supercharged game that the Kolkata Knight Riders won. The pictures are those from today’s editions of the TT and ABP.