Players signing up with Indian Premeir League (IPL) will have agree to a two-year waiting period between retiring from international cricket and joining the league, chairman Lalit Modi has said. Interested players will have to get No-Objection Certificates (NOC) from their country’s board. Modi said the league did not wish to harm the other forms [...]
India’s cricket authorities released terms for owning teams in their proposed Indian Premeir League, projecting the franchises as both a profit-making business opportunity as well as platforms for corporate branding. The prospectus, however, doesn’t set any minimum bid price for tenders set to be floated later this month. BCCI vice-president and chairman of Indian [...]
Shane Warne will be the Indian Premeir League’s most expensive signing, at a cost of US$400,000 for the first season, set to kick off in April 2008. The finance committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India met in Mumbai on Friday and approved several decisions taken by the IPL’s governing council regarding [...]
HOBART: Wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist says Australia’s cricketers are not trying to be “rebels” and will heed the company line when it comes to playing in the Indian Premeir League. The vice-captain said on Sunday that he was one of about a dozen top-level players to receive a letter from Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland, [...]
Melbourne: Cribbing about burnout and then making a beeline to play in the cash-rich Indian Premeir League (IPL) would portray cricketers as hypocrites, fears Australia vice- captain Adam Gilchrist. Gilchrist said though cricketers had always played county cricket to earn extra money in the off-season, complaining about burnout and then making a dash for cash [...]
INDIA’S Twenty20 supremo has guaranteed the cashed-up Indian Premeir League will not attempt to lure international players away from their national teams, allaying concerns of a Packer-style split developing within the game. Lalit Modi’s comments come in response to a strongly-worded letter from Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland, addressed to senior Australian players who [...]