Mumbai: Sobriety was the soul of Sachin Tendulkar’s answers after he named the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) franchise team as ‘Mumbai Indians’, posed for pictures in front of the crest resembling a Sudarshan chakra in motion with an outline of India and was named the captain of the team. Read the rest of this entry »

The swashbuckling West Indies captain Chris Gayle, one of the highest paid players in Indian Premier League (IPL), has an impressive record in India and is confident that he will be a huge success in the multi-million dollar Twenty20 tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

Pakistan’s Mohammed Yousuf and South Africa’s Ashwell Prince, who were dumped by franchise owners at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction last month, along with Misbah-ul-Haq will be among the 18 players to be auctioned Tuesday. IANS accessed the highly confidential players’ list that will be distributed to the eight franchise owners not before Tuesday morning. Read the rest of this entry »

Star Plus has signed up telecom major Airtel as the presenting sponsor for the Shah Rukh Khan-anchored ‘Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hai’. According to sources, the deal has been struck at Rs 40 crore.

The Airtel deal follows on the heels of its competitor Vodafone signing up as the presenting sponsor for the Indian Premier League on Sony TV. Read the rest of this entry »

To keep interest levels alive and compete with the star and money power of rival Indian Premier League (IPL), the Subhash Chandra-promoted Indian Cricket League (ICL) today matched the prize money of IPL for its next tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

CHANDIGARH: The organisers of the Indian Premier League would conduct a two-day seminar for the curators and turf managers of all the IPL match-venues in Mohali from Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

New Delhi, March 8:Joginder Sharma’s last-over heroics instantly propelled him into the limelight during the World Twenty20 championship last September. But, out of the team since then, the only news he made after that fateful final against Pakistan was when he was signed by Chennai for Rs 90 lakh for the Indian Premier League (IPL). Read the rest of this entry »

Black Caps swing bowler Kyle Mills may have pushed up his price for the second Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket auction tomorrow night. Read the rest of this entry »

The most remarkable thing about the IPL player auction was the spectacle it generated. The heady mix of wealth and fame proved intoxicating for many, not least representatives of the media, who celebrated the auction as a triumph of the new India of the free market. For others it was unsettling: cricketers being evaluated like prize bulls, bought up by the super-rich. Read the rest of this entry »

Mumbai: The BCCI-promoted DLF Indian Premier League Twenty20 has come as a boon to a number of junior cricketers in India.

The IPL’s decision to fix a base payment of $20,000 to those who have not played the Ranji Trophy and $50,000 to those who have has met with the approval of the cricketing fraternity, though there have been whispers that it would spoil the development process of the young cricketers. Read the rest of this entry »