India, April 22 -- IPL 2025 began a month ago. There are reams of statistics and analyses of the tournament that make you feel as if Einstein and your maths teacher are in the commentary box. But sporting magic is sometimes beyond facts and figures. Here are five moments or themes that made an impact because they were fun or informative.

Imagine LeBron James picking up a loose ball in his own half and then casually lobbing it across the length of one and a half basketball courts into the basket. Dhoni pulled off something similar when CSK faced LSG on April 14. In the last over of the LSG innings, Matheesha Pathirana arrowed one down the leg side. Samad attempted to run a quick bye. Dhoni collected the ball far behind the stumps to his l...