Australian John Buchanan formally joins as coach Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly, Bolywood stars Shah Rukh Khan And Juhi Chawla unveiled the team name and jerseys for Kolkata IPL – Kolkata Knight Riders is the name of the squad , which would have black and gold as its jersey and Bengal tiger Hoog Lee as [...]
Pakistan’s Misabah-ul-Haq goes to Bangalore Royal Challengers for $125,000 Fourteen players were auctioned in the second and final round of bidding for the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament beginning on April 18, with Australian James Hopes bagging the highest bid of $300,000 from Mohali franchaise owned by Bollywood’s Preity Zinta and friend Ness Wadia. Dimitri Masceranhas [...]
India’s IPL matches will not get ICC international Twenty20 match status, the International Cricket Council has said. The ICC says the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament is a domestic cricket tournament, even though top stars from all over the world are participating. The DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament features 8 teams and more than 70 international cricketers [...]
The Indian Premier League can never be a lure enough for any player to skip national duty, Australian bastman Mike Hussey has said. Mike Hussey is yet to sign any IPL contract, but has expressed interest in playing depending on his availability. Any amount of money won’t be sufficient for players to skip their responsibilities [...]
Cricket Australia has postponed the Pakistan tour scheduled for this month saying new dates would be fixed soon, boosting chances of a host of players to participate in the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament. Cricket Australia and Pakistan Cricket Board chairmen will meet in Dubai later this month to discuss the new fixtures. There have been [...]
Mumbai IPL’s Harbhajan Singh is in trouble again for his reported comments against Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist. Harbhajan Singh had reportedly called Matthew Hayden a liar and said Adam Gilchrist was no saint. However, Harbhajan ha already denied these remarks. An Australian media report said match referees Mike Procter and Jeff Crowe have asked [...]
Mumbai IPL star Harbhajan Singh has stepped up his attacks against Aussies, saying Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds thought they were bigger than the game itself. Mathew Hayden will play for Chennai IPL while Symonds has been bagged by Hyderabad IPL. Matthew Hayden got $375,000 while Andrew Symonds got a whopping $1.3 million in the [...]
The Indian Premier League may see the extension of hostilities generated during India’s recent tour of Australia, media reports said. A Kolkata-based newspaper quoted an unnamed senior Indian player to this effect, hinting at a strong possibility that the Australian players would get a hostile reception. The unnamed senior player, commenting on the availability of [...]
Aussie spin wizard Shane Warne , who will captain and coach Jaipur IPL team, says the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament would not be an acrimonious affair, despite India’s controversial tour of Australia. The Austalian tour had been a much charged-up affair following a spate of controversies including the racism charges levelled against Harbjahan Singh and [...]
Ricky Ponting’s reign over the Australian cricket team has come under flak, with critics and some wellwishers urging him to resist the $400,000 IPL lure and take a break to get back into cricket afresh after regaining his form. Cricket writer Robert Craddock wrote in The Daily Telegraph that the last thing Ricky Ponting, the [...]