Call them different efforts to cash in on what looks like a product with infinite potential or simply bitter rivals, the Indian Cricket League (ICL) and Indian Premier League (IPL) are trendsetters. You can also call them cause and effect but John Buchanan feels these can also be looked at as parallel lines which will converge sometime in the future. Read the rest of this entry »

Although Cricket Australia is yet to confirm player participation in the IPL, top BCCI sources told TOI on Tuesday that Aussie players are really keen to turn up following the postponement of Australia’s tour to Pakistan because of the Lahore blasts. Read the rest of this entry »

Cricket is played on Juhu, as it is everywhere, but it’s the setting that is the clue to what is going on with Twenty20.

On Juhu’s edge are posh beach houses owned by the rich and Bollywood stars, including actor and now cricket impresario Shah Rukh Khan. Read the rest of this entry »

Pace bowler Mills and his Black Caps team-mate Ross Taylor were snapped up at the second round of IPL player auctions overnight. Read the rest of this entry »

He was one of those small-town dreamers to make it big in cricket. For Sunil Joshi, those train rides from Gadag to Hubli remain some of the most memorable phases of his life. Read the rest of this entry »

CRICKET Australia may have avoided a potentially damaging dispute with its players by postponing the tour of Pakistan, but it has not yet cleared them to play in the Indian Premier League this autumn, when they may have only a fortnight to represent their new franchises. Read the rest of this entry »

While Everyone’s eyes are popping out because of all the money floating around, the real story of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is not the crore or the cricket but the mood of the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Brad Hodge has given Lancashire a major boost by rejecting rumours that he will play in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition next month. Read the rest of this entry »

Runs and wickets at the Indian Premier League’s Twenty20 competition will not gain official recognition, cricket’s world governing body said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

DIMITRI MASCARENHAS has become the first England international to join the Indian Premier League after Jaipur signed the big-hitting all-rounder in yesterday’s second player auction. Mascarenhas showed his worth in the shortest form of the game when he hit four sixes in four balls against New Zealand for England. Read the rest of this entry »