Mumbai : The cream of Australian cricketing talent, led by captain Ricky Ponting and vice captain Adam Gilchrist, together with eleven other Aussies and Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi and Loots Bosman of South Africa have signed on to participate in the Indian Premeir League (IPL), which kicks off in April next year.
These players, along with [...]
For the past three years Lalit Modi has answered to the Chief Marketing Officer, or CMO, tag at the BCCI. Already, the BCCI’s revenues have grown ten folds and it is ready to roll out a new brand-the Indian Premeir League, or IPL. Modi said that as many as 80 entities are keen to own [...]
Melbourne, Oct 27 : Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie is the latest entrant to join the Indian Premeir league (IPL), the professional Twenty20 league venture of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Gillespie is one of the Cricket Australia’s 25 contracted players, and said he was excited by the competition.
“I am at this [...]
NEW DELHI – India’s new-found fascination for Twenty20 cricket has turned into a tug-of-war as money, power and court battles overshadow the country’s most popular sport. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is determined to be the sole crusader of the lucrative crowd-pulling Twenty20 format in cricket-mad India despite its secretary Niranjan [...]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik and team mates Younis Khan and Mohammad Asif have signed up for the inaugural Indian Premeir League (IPL), organisers said on Thursday.
New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum has also joined, taking to 29 the number of foreign players who have committed to the lucrative Twenty20 event which starts in [...]
Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik along with fellow batsman Younus Khan and fast bowler Mohammad Asif have joined the official Indian Premier League (IPL).
New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum is also the IPL’s latest signing.
“Malik, Khan, Asif and McCullum signed up with the IPL, taking the number of international cricketers to 29,” BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi was [...]
The Indian Premier League has secured the services of South Africa all-rounder Shaun Pollock and Pakistan paceman Shoaib Akhtar.
The Twenty20 format league, which is due to get underway in April, was set up by the India Cricket Board to counter the rebel Indian Cricket League that is to feature West Indian legend Brian Lara.
And, with [...]
Brendon McCullum has joined a growing number of New Zealand test cricketers signing up to play in the Indian Premeir League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament.
The Black Caps wicketkeeper was unveiled among the latest signings for the International Cricket Council (ICC) competition – establishment’s answer to the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) venture. The acquisition of McCullum [...]
A Pakistan Cricket Board official will visit India to study the model of BCCI’s Indian Premeir League (IPL), set to be launched next year.
PCB Director, Marketing and Communications, Ehsan Hameed Malik will attend a couple of presentations to be made by the IPL organisers in a bid to help the PCB launch its own league.
“We [...]
The BCCI-run Indian Premeir League’s contracts have been dubbed as “the worst contracts in professional sport” by the head of the New Zealand Cricket Players’ Association.
Heath Mills, the association’s manager, said Scott Styris had signed the deal but he was unsure if skipper Daniel Vettori had already committed.
Mills said the IPL and New Zealand Cricket [...]