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An Australian Cricketers Association survey has revealed that about half of the country’s cricketers would give up playing cricket for the country for a stint in the Lucrative IPL Twenty20.
Fouty seven percent of the national players said yes to this query , while 93 percent of state level players also had the same answer.
The [...]
April 10th, 2008 | Posted in Controversy, Foreign Players, General | No Comments
Sachin Tendulkar will make way for Mohammad Kaif in the second Test against South Africa due to an injury during the first Test in Chennai.
The second Test starts on April 3 in Ahmedabad.
Sachin Tendulkar’s groin injury worsened while fielding in Chennai test. Meanwhile, captain Anil Kumble is also nursing a groin injury, but may play [...]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in General | No Comments
After the war for big players, the Indian Premium League teams have begun hunting for the super coaches. Many a big name in cricket world has already joined as coaches of different cash-rich IPL teams. With hype on IPL catching up aggressively, teams are busy recruiting celebrity veterans in international cricket to train the young [...]
March 29th, 2008 | Posted in General | No Comments
Sunil Gavaskar, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, all former Indian captains, will form the panel to select the Player of the League in the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament.
The Player of the League will be awarded a million rupees by Twenty20 title sponsors, DLF, India’s largest listed real estate firm.
IPL chairman Lalit Modi announced [...]
March 26th, 2008 | Posted in Business, General | No Comments
India take on a resurgent South Africa in Chennai on Wednesday as skipper Anil Kumble seeks a first slot in Test rankings and key batsman Rahul Dravid chases the 80 rund he needs to make it to the 10,000-run club.
Rahul Dravid will become the only third Indian after Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar to enter [...]
March 25th, 2008 | Posted in Bangalore Royal Challengers, Chennai Super Kings, Foreign Players, General | No Comments
The ICC plans to sign a contract with BCCI to ensure that international cricket schedules are not jeopardized by IPL.
According to the contract, IPL must respect international schedules and not take on players that do not have board clearance to take part in IPL.
This would include players who have been retired for up to two [...]
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in Controversy, General | No Comments
The 2011 Cricket World Cup would have two teams less than the previous one, reports said.
The last Cricket World Cup in West Indies had 16 nations, inviting criticism that it prolonged the tournament and that including more teams would affect the standards of the game.
The ICC has not drawn up the schedule of the 2011 [...]
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in Controversy, General | No Comments
The International Cricket Council is toying with the idea of allowing players to challenge umpires decision by referring it to TV umpires.
There have been many instances when decisions have gone awfully wrong, especially during India’s recent tour of Australia. Many believe umpiring errors cost India the Sydney test a reversal of which would have meant [...]
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in General, Media / TV | No Comments
This is the Delhi Daredevils team composition as it stands on 18 March 2008.
Virender Sehwag (Captain)
Daniel Vettori
Mohammad Asif
Shoaib Malik
Dinesh Karthik
AB de Villiers
Farveez Maharoof
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Gautam Gambhir
Manoj Tiwary
Glenn McGrath
Rajat Bhatia
Shikhar Dhawan
Mithun Manhas
Mayank Tehlan
Pradeep Sangwan
Brett Geeves
GMR Sports, owner of the Delhi Daredevils team has announced the sponsors for its IPL team. Hero Honda will be the main sponsor [...]
March 18th, 2008 | Posted in Delhi DareDevils, General | 2 Comments
Pakistan
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Streaker
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Sachin Tendulkar
Preity Zinta
Sourav Ganguly
Under-19
Andrew Symonds
Vijay Mallya
Shane Warne
Harbhajan Singh
Brett Lee
Ian Fraser
Younis Khan
Vvs Laxman
Anil Kumble
Adam Gilchrist
Yuvraj Singh
Matthew Hayden
Greg Chappell
Mukesh Ambani
World Cup
Rahul Dravid
Shah Rukh Khan
Misbah Ul Haq
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Vodafone
Auction
Dhoni
Vivian Richards
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Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
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March 17th, 2008 | Posted in General, Uncategorized | No Comments