MUMBAI: India’s Gen-Next cricketers like Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa and Ishant Sharma were more sought after than overseas stars by the eight franchise owners at the Indian Premier League players’ auction here on Wednesday.
Rohit was auctioned off to the Hyderabad team for $750,000, Uthappa was sold to Mumbai for $800,000 while the gangling Ishant, the [...]
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Like most other days, Nariman Point on Wednesday morning was chock-a-block with cars, except that they were all making a beeline for the Hilton Towers, where the auction process for the IPL was to commence.
But what really caught the eye, was the stunning number of luxury cars, something that would put even the Sultan of [...]
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In the midst of controversy over the presence of cheerleaders at IPL matches, police on Friday said they could perform at the stadium in Navi Mumbai on April 27 but action will be taken against organisers if their act is found to be “vulgar” or “indecent”.
“The girls are merely artistes who perform as per the [...]
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Many thought Mahendra Singh Dhoni was over-rated in the Indian Premier League auction and mistook the mind-boggling money he was bought for as a price for his glamour and popularity.
On Monday, before their home crowd, Royal Challengers Bangalore found to their bitter disappointment that the Team Chennai skipper is really worth $1.5 million and more.
Mahi [...]
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The hype and hoopla over Twenty20 cricket’s Indian Premier League notwithstanding, its most valued Mumbai team, owned by the country’s richest person Mukesh Ambani, is not even one-tenth the value of top American baseball team New York Yankees.
According to a new list of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, published in a special edition of [...]
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Former Test cricketers Chandrakanth Pandit and Ajit Wadekar want the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to take action against S Sreesanth when they probe the slapping row.
“I fully agree with the BCCI ordering their own probe in the slapping case as the board’s reputation is at stake,” Pandit told Cricketnext.com on Wednesday. [...]
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Former Australian Test umpire Lou Rowan on Wednesday labelled Harbhajan Singh a menace on the field and called for a life ban on the temperamental off-spinner for slapping India teammate S Sreesanth.
“This fellow (Harbhajan) doesn’t belong to the game of cricket. He has shown he is no good. They should just get rid of him [...]
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Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting has condemned Harbhajan Singh for slapping S Sreesanth during the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) but seemed relieved that there were no repercussions since no foreign player was involved in the fracas.
“What he did was wrong. But at least it happened between two Indian players. Had it been between an Indian [...]
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Indian Premier League (IPL) governing board member I S Bindra has cautioned off-spinner Harbhajan Singh to watch his on-field behaviour after the slapping row with S Sreesanth as another spat with fellow players could spell the end of his career.
“There is no question for any repetition, we cannot have tolerance of any repeat actions of [...]
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Despite the PCB making it clear that the ban on fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar does not stand in the way of him representing Kolkata Knight Riders, the team would rather wait for further clarification from the governing council of the IPL, Joy Bhattacharya, marketing head of the Shah Rukh Khan-owned franchise, told CNN-IBN on Wednesday.
“Any [...]
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