Pakistan batting mainstay Younis Khan feels the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises have made a big mistake by not spending more on Pakistani players.

Younis said he was surprised that not many Pakistani players were snapped up by the IPL franchises in the bidding held in Mumbai last month. Read the rest of this entry »

DELHI - Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi does not expect any English players to feature in the inaugural 20-over tournament next month. Read the rest of this entry »

Is the IPL oversubscribed hype?

The year has been wonderful for cricketers. Even if it has not been raining runs and wickets for some of them, they have been drenched in crores of rupees by the Indian Premier League which has shown the world how to sell a product for a huge premium and created enormous hype about a revolutionary concept (for cricket certainly …) and got franchisees to pay enormous sums of money. Read the rest of this entry »

Two more New Zealand cricket players will join the sanctioned Indian Premier League. Read the rest of this entry »

One does not only wonder but feels highly shocked to find the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) following the policy of blindly towing the line of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in respect of its treatment of players joining the Indian Cricket League (ICL). Read the rest of this entry »

With the Great Indian victory down under, cricket is surely the flavor of the season. While India’s next series is the three Test series against the South Africans at home, fans are actually looking forward to the grand launch of probably cricket’s biggest event, the prestigious IPL (Indian Premiere League) which kicks off from April 18th. Read the rest of this entry »

Cuddapah: From cleaning lorries to getting a berth on the Indian Premier League (IPL) Hyderabad team, P Vijaykumar has come a long way from his remote village in Cuddapah district in Andhra Pradesh. Read the rest of this entry »

The script of the Indian Premier League has been written and the casting done. Now what remains to be seen is how the movie will play out, beginning at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has indicated that the opening match between his Royal Challengers and Shah Rukh Khan’s (K) Night Riders on April 18 will be a kingsize premier, in keeping with his flamboyance. Read the rest of this entry »

MUMBAI, March 7: The Indian Premier League chairman, Mr Lalit Modi, says revenue from the T20 tournament will be used by the Board of Control for Cricket in India to prioritise improving the game’s infrastructure ahead of the 2011 World Cup across the subcontinent. Read the rest of this entry »

It isn’t just the economics of cricket that the Indian Premier League has changed, but also the economics of television advertising.
Companies that are sponsoring telecast of the Sony Entertainment Television (SET) matches are paying the league’s official broadcaster more than Rs7 crore to prevent their rivals from advertising during the 59 matches. Read the rest of this entry »