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IPL moved out of India

By thedarknight ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Season two of the Indian Premier League will be played outside India. The final schedule and venue will be announced on Monday. The high-profile Twenty20 tournament might be held in some other country, possibly England, after a BCCI working committee meeting decided to shift the tournament out of India. The tournament will have all the [...]

ECB explores possibility of hosting IPL

By thedarknight ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The England and Wales Cricket Board is seriously looking at the possibility of hosting the second edition of Indian Premier League after “exploratory discussions to relocate the tournament” with the BCCI and will take a final decision in the coming week. “At the request of Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Indian [...]

Collingwood, Shah wary of playing in Ahmedabad

By thedarknight ⋅ March 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Wary of playing Indian Premier League matches in Ahmedabad, Paul Collingwood and Owais Shah have sought feedback from Delhi Daredevils, their IPL team, and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on whether the city is safe enough for the Twenty20 matches. Ahmedabad was proposed as a venue in the revised IPL schedule which is [...]

Warne urges organizers to shorten IPL

By thedarknight ⋅ February 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian spin legend Shane Warne has suggested that the Indian Premier League should be shortened and restricted to just the month of April so that all the international stars could feature in it. The IPL Season II kicks off on April 10 and will conclude on May 24 with the final slated in Mumbai. “The [...]

Modi urges ECB to let Flintoff play IPL

By thedarknight ⋅ February 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi on Thursday said the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) should not stop Andrew Flintoff from playing in the Twenty20 league, beginning from April 10. ECB chairman Giles Clarke on Wednesday had expressed concern over Flintoff, who has a hip injury, playing in the IPL. But Modi said [...]

Modi wants two year commitment from ECB

By thedarknight ⋅ January 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

IPL officials and franchise representatives have welcomed the ECB’s revised 21-day window – announced yesterday – for its players to participate in this year’s tournament but say several conditions must still be met before those cricketers turn out in the league. These include a two-year commitment from the players and a four-week window for non-Test [...]

IPL demands England players for a month

By thedarknight ⋅ January 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Fresh doubts emerged over England players’ participation in the Indian Premier League after IPL chief Lalit Modi demanded that they play for at least one month in the Twenty20 tournament, according to a report. Modi has reversed the understanding the England and Wales Cricket Board thought it had reached with him under which ECB centrally [...]

BCCI-ECB to ink a new deal

By thedarknight ⋅ January 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

BCCI and ECB would sign a “ground-breaking” agreement later this month with provision for an Ashes-like series, media reports claimed on Thursday. According to a report in ‘The Guardian’, the new agreement would see Indian Premier League authorities budging from their rigid stance that the English cricketers would be allowed in the second edition of [...]

England may host IPL

By thedarknight ⋅ December 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The next IPL Twenty20 extravanganza may unfold at Lord’s as well. The tournament, which had a smashing debut earlier this year, is expected to be split with five weeks of action in India and three weeks in UK where it is expected to draw in sub-continental diaspora as well as English fans. The IPL proposal [...]

India tests platform for IPL: Harmison

By thedarknight ⋅ December 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Steve Harmison admitted the Test series gave them the perfect platform to impress the franchise owners for mega-buck deals to play in the Indian Premier League. “It’s like the X Factor. You come out here and if you do well you have a chance of playing in the IPL and I think everyone would be [...]

Dickason to inspect security at Mohali

By thedarknight ⋅ December 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

England and Wales Cricket Board’s security adviser Reg Dickason would be visiting the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali, the venue for the second Test, on December 8, a senior official said on Thursday. “I got a call from Chennai that Dickason intends to visit PCA on December 8 and hold a meeting with the [...]

ICC backs England return

By thedarknight ⋅ December 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

International Cricket Council (ICC) president David Morgan has backed England’s tour to India while lambasting Geoffrey Boycott and sections of English press who argued for its postponement. Former England captain Boycott and other critics were of the view that the two-Test series in India should be put on hold until India has had time to [...]

Won’t let terror dictate cricket: ECB

By thedarknight ⋅ December 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Giles Clarke has indicated that Kevin Pietersen and his men will be back in India for next week’s Test series, insisting he would not let terrorists dictate cricket. “Under no circumstances will we allow our cricket to be dictated to by terrorists. India is an enormous country and [...]

BCCI says tour on; shifts 2nd Test to Chennai

By thedarknight ⋅ November 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The BCCI has shifted the second Test between India and England to Chennai, following terrorist strikes in Mumbai. The Indian board’s announcement is a reiteration of their unequivocal stand of Thursday, when Lalit Modi, a vice-president and head of its fixtures committee, said the series would go ahead. The ECB has said that it was [...]

England call off India tour

By nj ⋅ November 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Following a series of terrorist strikes in Mumbai which begain last night, the balance ODIs between India and England have been called off. Even the status of the Test matches hang in balance and a decision will be taken at a later date after evaluating the security situation in Mumbai. The English players have their [...]

English cricketers in doubt for IPL

By thedarknight ⋅ November 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has said England captain Kevin Pietersen and star all-rounder Andrew Flintoff need to play “substantial number of IPL games” to make it viable for them to play in the next season of the Indian Premier League. In an interview to The Wisden Cricketer, Modi said that the players, who missed the [...]

Pieterson has agreed to be part of IPL: Modi

By thedarknight ⋅ November 1, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, has said that only a no-objection certificate from the England board stands in the way of Kevin Pietersen participating in the Twenty20 tournament next season. “I am very keen for Kevin to take part in the IPL,” Modi said in an interview. “He has already agreed to be part of [...]

SLC lost huge money due to IPL: Ranatunga

By thedarknight ⋅ November 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) Chairman Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday blamed the IPL for depriving the board USD 3 million due to cancellation of next year’s England tour because of non-availability of senior Lankan players who will play in the Indian Premier League. “The SLC would have got USD 3 million including USD 2 million for [...]

SLC-BCCI deal unacceptable: ICC

By thedarknight ⋅ October 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

David Morgan, the ICC president, has said the US$70 million proposal between Sri Lanka Cricket and IPL chairman Lalit Modi is “quite unacceptable behaviour against the background of Sri Lanka’s signed agreement with the ECB”. The Daily Telegraph has quoted Morgan condemning the deal, which, if ratified by the BCCI, would force the abandonment of [...]

Champions League gets new dates

By thedarknight ⋅ August 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 will be played between December 3 and 10, instead of October, the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa have announced. Thus keeping in mind the dates change, the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Perth has been pushed back from December 12 to December 17. The eight-team [...]

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