Veteran Journalist and Author Partab Ramchand joined ET Now to talk about all IPL trends this year said in response to the question that "a couple of teams really managed to defend the record. So far, only a couple of teams have really managed to defend the title. So, to that extent, it may be a little tough, but then there is no favourite as far as I m concerned in the IPL given the format, given the T20 format, you will not have any favourites and all the teams are sort of evenly matched., Industry News, Times Now