Mumbai: Shashank Manohar was on Thursday confirmed as president-elect of the BCCI, a day ahead of its 78th annual general meeting. He will succeed Sharad Pawar next year. The Nagpur-based lawyer, one of the vice-presidents of the BCCI currently headed by Pawar, is the only person to have sent in his nomination, secretary Niranjan Shah [...]
New Delhi, Sept. 28 (PTI): The BCCI may have stolen the thunder from the Indian Cricket League (ICL) by announcing its own Twenty20 league but Subhas Chandra, chief of Essel Group bankrolling ICL, insists he is not intimidated by the Board. ICL created a flutter by roping in 50 domestic players, apart from some big [...]
Sunday, 16 September , 2007, 19:07 Melbourne: Legendary Shane Warne has signed with the Indian Premeir League, for “significantly less” amount than what was reportedly offered to him by the rebel ICL, media reports said today. Warne has inked the deal for less than USD 600,000, the minimum figure reportedly offered by the Indian [...]
Having joined the Indian Premeir League (IPL) post-retirement, former Australian pacer Glenn McGrath now wants to explore other business opportunities there. Like fellow Aussie Brett Lee, McGrath realises India is the biggest market for cricketer and the pacer has no qualms in admitting that IPL would give him the opportunity to look at those options. [...]
The rebel Indian Cricket League was too small an entity to challenge the authority of BCCI, Board secretary Niranjan Shah said on Sunday. “ICL is too small to challenge (BCCI), it is very small against the BCCI,” Shah said. He said the BCCI initiative to start the Indian Premeir League would benefit young and upcoming [...]
Richard Scudamore marches into work at the Premeir League every day fretting less about England’s talent pool, foreign ownership and overplaying and more about problems most fans have never heard of, such as the rights dispute threatening the very future of the Premeir League. “Some things are skirmishes, but these are wars, and I’m trying [...]
SYDNEY, Australia: Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath is looking forward to his involvement in a new Twenty20 cricket league in India but remains a lover of five-day tests. McGrath, 37, who retired from test cricket last year as the top all-time wicket-taker among fast bowlers, has resumed light training in preparation for his part in [...]
Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed ambassador for the Manchester United Opus in India and the publishers are planning a similar epic about the Indian batting great. Tendulkar, who was the guest of honour at the Premeir League match between Manchester United and Sunderland, has been named Indian ambassador for the voluminous hardback epic about the [...]
In a move that already has advertisers complaining, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has asked companies to pay between $50 million and $60 million (Rs 200 crore to Rs 240 crore) to own a team featuring in the Indian Premeir League (IPL), the tournament it has introduced to counter Zee TV [...]
Karachi, Sept. 17 (PTI): The Pakistan Cricket Board today made it clear that though there was no bar on Pakistani players to participate in the IPL, the cricketers cannot sign contracts directly with the Indian Board or the participating teams. CEO of PCB, Shafqat Naghmi, said since the league was approved by cricket Boards of [...]