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Knight Riders shortlist 6 ICL players

Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan said the beleaguered IPL outfit is eyeing at least six players who have snapped ties with the ‘rebel’ Indian Cricket League and are eligible to return to mainstream fold. Soon after BCCI granted amnesty to 79 current cricketers, Buchanan said it was an opportunity for KKR to rope in [...]

79 ICL players return to BCCI fold

Seventy nine current players, 11 former Test cricketers and 11 support staff and officials have severed their relations with the ICL and applied to the BCCI to rejoin the mainstream of Indian cricket, the Board said on Tuesday. They are seeking a return under the amnesty scheme offered by the country’s cricketing board. With this [...]

Bangladesh offer amnesty to ICL players

Bangladesh has offered amnesty to 14 cricketers who played in the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), asking them to scrap contracts by June 15 to have their bans withdrawn, an official said on Saturday. Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Yunus said that the cricketers who joined the Twenty20 cricket meet have to sever their links [...]

BCCI relaxes ban on ICL players

In a surprise decision, the Indian Cricket Board on Wednesday agreed to lift ban on players associated with the rebel ICL if they severed their links with the Subhash Chandra-owned League. BCCI President Shashank Manohar said the decision was taken after some ICL players and their support staff met the Board members and admitted committing [...]

PCB drops ICL players from T20 squad

Pakistan on Monday dropped three Indian Cricket League players from its 30-member list of probables for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup in England. Confusion reigned supreme at PCB which dropped the trio and, at the same time, said in a statement that if ICC agrees, Abdul Razzaq, Rana Naved and Imran Nazir would return again [...]

3 ICL players in Pakistan T20 WC squad

Mohammad Yousuf was left out but three of his Indian Cricket League colleagues were on Monday surprisingly picked by Pakistan selectors among 30 probables for the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in England this June. Abdul Razzaq, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Imran Nazir, who featured in the ICL, have been included in Pakistan’s preliminary squad [...]

Pakistan ICL players claim non-payment of dues

After New Zealand’s Craig McMillan, it is the turn of Pakistan cricketers to allege non-payment of dues by the rebel Indian Cricket League which has reportedly been hit hard by the economic meltdown and is planning to release players off their contracts. Pakistan cricketers under ICL’s payroll were supposed to get their money in quarterly [...]

ICL ready to off-load Kiwi players

The rebel Indian Cricket League is ready to off-load its New Zealand players like Shane Bond and Daryl Tuffey if requested, thus making them eligible for a national call-up. According to a report, the likes of Bond and Tuffey would be allowed to leave by the recession-hit league, which is fighting a grim battle to [...]

No ICL players in Pakistan team

The Pakistan selection committee has made it clear that they were in no mood to consider any player linked with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) for the forthcoming one-day series against Australia. Referring to recent media reports that the selectors had asked the Pakistan Cricket Board for clearance to include some ICL players in [...]

Blow to ICL’s recognition hopes

ICC General Manager of Cricket Operations, Dave Richardson said he does not think cricketers linked to the rebel league are likely to get legal relief to play for their national teams. Making a very clear statement on the status of the ICL as far as the International Cricket Council is concerned, Richardson told reporters at [...]

BCCI in a fix over Tendulkar playing with ICL player

The Indian board faces an embarrassing situation after letting Sachin Tendulkar appear for a Masters Twenty20 match in Wellington on Friday where he will play alongside Hamish Marshall, the former New Zealand batsman who featured in the unauthorised ICL last year. New Zealand Cricket (NZC) confirmed in a press release that Tendulkar will turn out [...]

ICL, BCCI fail to reach agreement

The ongoing dispute between the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Indian Cricket League continued as both parties failed to reach an agreement in a meeting, the ICC announced on Monday. No further discussions are scheduled and, as a result, the ICL’s application to be recognised by the ICC as unofficial cricket [...]

ICC, BCCI, ICL to hold talks

Representatives of the ICC, the Indian Cricket League and the BCCI will meet in Johannesburg next week to thrash out a settlement on the ‘rebel’ league’s application for official recognition. This follows the ICC Executive Board’s decision early this month authorising the official cricket boards of each country to decide on which events/tournaments within its [...]

ICL cancels March World Series

The ICL has hit recession mode with a series of moves that reflect the current economic realities. The World Series Twenty20 tournament, scheduled for March, now stands cancelled, and payments to players have been put on hold until the management completes a stringent performance review that could lead to downgrading of payments and even sackings. [...]

ICC wants quick end to ICL debate

The ICL’s move to obtain ICC recognition has entered a critical phase with both sides meeting in Johannesburg next week along with the BCCI, the third party in the issue. The ICC is making a serious push for a settlement at that meeting, on February 21, and is so hopeful of a solution that David [...]

Pak ICL players can play domestic cricket

The Pakistani players, who were contracted with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), have been formally allowed by the PCB to play in the domestic cricket. PCB lawyer Shan Gul said the board had banned all ICL-contracted players from playing domestic or international cricket in Pakistan, because the rebel league is not a legal tournament [...]

PCB asks Yousuf to return from ICL

Senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf will be immediately selected in the national team if he snaps his ties with the ‘rebel’ Indian Cricket League, the Pakistan Cricket Board said. PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt said he regarded Yousuf among the greats and would ensure his selection in the national team if the batsman severed his ties with [...]

ICC authorizes BCCI to decide on ICL

The ICC on Sunday virtually authorised the BCCI to decide on the Indian Cricket League’s plea for official recognition, saying member countries would determine if a match or tournament within their territory was “approved or disapproved”. The ICC board on the second-day of its two-day meeting agreed new regulations governing domestic cricket events and “approved/disapproved” [...]

Pakistan ICL players file suit against PCB

Indian Cricket League’s Pakistani recruits have finally initiated legal proceedings against the PCB for banning them from domestic as well as international cricket. Fakhruddin G Ibrahim, a respected lawyer and former Governor of Sindh province, is said to have accepted the request to represent some of the ICL players and have sent a legal notice [...]

ICC officials hold meeting with ICL

ICC’s three top officials David Morgan, the president, Sharad Pawar, the vice-president and Haroon Lorgat, the chief executive met Subhash Chandra, the owner of the unauthorised league, in a New Delhi hotel on Monday. The official cricket establishment has been working for a while on resolving the problem, which affects more than a hundred banned [...]


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