Two giants of the game, one still active and the other retired, are set to take centrestage at the Brabourne Stadium when the Sachin Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians start their Indian Premier League campaign against Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals here on Saturday.
When Sachin Tendulkar confronts his long-time adversary Warne as leaders of [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2010 by admin
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Indian Premier League Chairman Lalit Modi was on Friday issued a notice by the Rajasthan High Court asking him to explain why his bail in a cheating case should not be cancelled for leaving the country without its permission.The order was passed by Justice S P Pathak, who asked Modi, who is currently in South [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2009 by admin
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Wilson NgCobo has had to deal with tremendous workload over the last couple of days, first in trying to get the square ready and then in pulling those huge green plastic sheets on and off the ground. The chief groundsman at Kingsmead shrugs his shoulders when asked about the exercise, and about the forecast of [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by admin
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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) owner Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday revealed he has been receiving “strange” hate mails for stripping Sourav Ganguly of captaincy.”I get strange hate mails from people for taking decision for the team’s sake,” Shah Rukh said after KKR tasted their first win of second IPL against Kings XI Punjab on Tuesday.”But [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by admin
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Injury-prone England all rounder Andrew Flintoff justified his decision to play the IPL instead of preserving himself for Ashes, saying it was crucial for him to improve Twenty20 skills ahead of the World Cup at home.
“I missed a lot of cricket through injury. I missed four weeks this winter, so the more cricket I can [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by admin
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The second edition of Indian Premier League, beginning here on Saturday, has been insured for USD 286 million, more than double the amount — USD 125 million — spent last season, owing to terror threats.
Besides, the whopping sum for overall insurance for the tournament, India and Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has attracted [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2009 by admin
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London: England star Kevin Pietersen will have a bunch of “naughty’ and “hottie” cheerleaders rooting from the sidelines when he makes his Indian Premier League debut on Saturday. Pietersen, bought by the Bangalore Royal Challengers for a record 1.55 million dollars, will clash with good friend Shane Warne’s Rajasthan Royals on the opening night in Cape Town, [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2009 by admin
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Bollywood actor and owner of the IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan, gives the thumb up as he and part of the team parade in the street of Cape Town on an open bus. (AFP Photo)
Rajasthan Royals team co-owner Shilpa Shetty and skipper Shane Warne wave to the public as [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2009 by admin
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Panaji: Star England players Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff on Friday became the most expensive players of the Indian Premier League after being sold for a whopping USD 1.55 million (appr Rs 7.35 crore) in the second edition, getting Rs 1.35 crore more than what Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni got in the first edition.
After the second round of [...]
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by admin
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The players’ auction for the season 2 of IPL began in Goa and the Englishmen stole the limelight with both Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen for $1.55 million by Chennai Super Kings and Banagalore Royal Challengers respectively. After this Flintoff and Pietersen overtake Mahendra Singh Dhoni to become the costliest players in IPL.IPL Commissioner Lalit [...]
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by admin
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