RCB, DC and PBKS look to end barren run

KOLKATA: Of all the questions one could prepare for in a team sport, probably nothing distresses more than the interrogation about the 'wait'.

- Somshuvra Laha

Fifteen years can be an eternity. And in every season, all Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore have managed to do is find different ways to lose. Is there light at the end of this tunnel? Success is difficult to predict. But when it eludes a team for so long, no amount of introspection or corrective measures appear to be enough.

The franchises haven't stopped trying though. Ranging from wholesale makeovers to changing names of the teams, franchises have undergone similar convulsions after every season. Heads have rolled too frequently.

If an Indian captain doesn't work, give the job to a foreigner. Buy impact players, but don't compromise on the franchise philosophy. Or change it at times, for the sake of quick-fix results. None of it has worked, not in the way the franchises would have hoped for. There have been some extraordinary highs, some nearly-there moments, but all of that has been buried under the compounding burden of a 15-year barren run.

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