Okay so my family think I’m turning in to my Dad with an increased interest in cricket but, well….whatever. Good news for us web types and many of my pals in Redmond is that the Indian Premier League (IPL) is available live on the web thanks to Silverlight.

Ball-by-ball commentary, scoreboard updates, match schedules, team standings, detailed player profiles and behind the scenes coverage will also be provided. Microsoft’s Deep Zoom technology will be used to enable the website to publish high-res images according to CBROnline.

Games started this Saturday with the Mumbai Indians taking on the Chennai Super Kings but I’m just reading Om Malik’s comments and it seems it’s not been without its problems albeit on the back-end rather than Silverlight.