As it received an overwhelming response to the offer of franchise for owning cricket teams in the Indian Premeir League, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday made it clear that no current player can have a stake in a company owning any of the teams. The BCCI stand came [...]
The high-profile Indian Premeir League on Thursday received overwhelming response as India’s top industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Vijay Mallya, and film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta won bids to own teams in the Twenty20 venture. After much suspense, Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president and IPL governing council chairman Lalit Modi named [...]
Sports broadcaster Sony Max and sports rights company World Sport Group have jointly paid US$1.026bn for the rights to the Indian Premeir League (IPL) cricket championship. The deal gives the partnership shared rights to the series for 10 years, and brings with it a change of direction for Sony Max parent Sony Entertainment Television (SET), [...]