Gurgaon : The BCCI-backed Indian Premeir League may have the best of current players on its roster but the Indian Cricket League recruit Chris Cairns feels the so-called rebel venture would be a bigger hit with the fans as it has more local youngsters.
“The IPL will have a lot of current players and all of [...]
NEW DELHI : The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today said that the door is open for Brian Lara to join next year’s Indian Premeir League (IPL), but the West Indies batting great would have to first snap all ties with the Essel Group-backed rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL).
BCCI vice president Mr Rajeev Shukla said Lara was free to [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) expects broadcasters to pay at least $59 million for a year’s broadcasting rights of its fledgling Indian Premeir League.
The Twenty20 league will involve 56 matches in a year. The base price was arrived at BCCI’s meeting on Monday.
Last year, Nimbus Communications paid BCCI $612 million (around [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is expected to issue tender forms for broadcasting rights of the Indian Premeir League (IPL) in the coming week. According to industry sources, the winner might have to fork out over Rs 1,000 crore for a five year telecast rights.
Last weekend, three broadcasters Nimbus Communications, Sony [...]
Karachi : The Pakistan and Indian cricket Boards have reached an understanding over the launch of the lucrative and planned Indian Premeir League next year in April-May.
Under the agreement, while Pakistan has agreed to postpone the jinxed Asia Cup by around until June, 2008, so that the IPL can be launched, India have confirmed their [...]
MUMBAI: Former New Zealand batsman Nathan Astle on Monday sounded skeptical on whether the BCCI-backed Indian Premeir League will succeed in bringing top foreign players due to the packed international calendar.
“IPL (floated by the Indian Cricket Board), Indian Cricket League (of which Astle is a part of) and the Stanford League are all very good [...]
The country’s leading sports broadcasters — ESPN, Nimbus and Sony — have made presentations to Board of Control for Cricket in India on their marketing plans for promotion of its upcoming Twenty20 Indian Premier League ahead of a tendering process for telecast rights expected to start by the month-end.
According to sources, the three broadcasters made [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) often drags it feet on cricketing matters, which is why the Indian team is without a coach and will be atleast for another month till they travel to Australia.
However, in marketing matters the board is right on top. The Indian Premier League, which promises to kill [...]
If Sachin Tendulkar had any inclination to jointly bid for a team of the Indian Premeir League, he will have to think of an alternative what with the BCCI stating today (November 13) that no contracted player will be allowed to make a bid to own an IPL team.
Just when reports suggested the Master Blaster [...]
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is among the 90 bidders for a franchise from among the teams competing in the $3 million Indian Premeir League (IPL) next year, a top Board official said on Tuesday.Even as some of the top business names have been mentioned among bidders, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, whose name was also doing [...]