“My wife has warned me if I say anything about Aamir she’ll beat me up. She is an Aamir Khan fan,” said Shah Rukh Khan replying to the raging controversial fire fanned by Aamir Khan yesterday by posing a question to SRK as to how does it feel being No. 2 to Aamir? Shah Rukh was addressing the media along with his Indian Premiere League team Kolkata Knight Rider’s Captain Saurav Ganguly and a few other players like Ishant Sharma, Akash Chopra and Murali Karthik in Mumbai. Also present at the event was Juhi Chawla, Jai Mehta, Gauri Khan and Sanjay Kapoor. Read the rest of this entry »

Barely a month remains before the start of the 2008 County Championship season and English domestic cricket finds itself in a state of uncertainty.

The reason lies overseas, namely two rival Twenty20 competitions - the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) and the “official” Indian Premier League (IPL). Read the rest of this entry »

Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium will not be hosting any of the matches of the Indian Premier League after the league and Reliance Industries, owners of the city franchise, found unacceptable the conditions imposed by the Cricket Club of India (CCI), to whom the stadium belongs. 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 yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

Daniel Vettori’s captaincy career may come to be defined by how the clash between the Indian Premier League and the England tour is handled. Read the rest of this entry »

Mumbai (PTI): Stylish middle-order batsman VVS Laxman on Thursday said he wanted to get back to the Indian one-day squad but wasn’t sure whether the selectors would judge his performance in the IPL to book his place in the shorter version of the game. Read the rest of this entry »

INDIAN PREMIER League (IPL) will commence from mid April, in which cricket fans will view different kind of cricket from Indian grounds. The teams are ready with their playing members from all over the world. Currently, IPL is the market for our players, to be purchase and sold to different teams. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW DELHI: Car maker Hyundai has become one of the six associate sponsors of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) by buying air time rights from the official broadcaster Sony Set Max. Read the rest of this entry »

I like the enthusiasm with which Giles Clarke, the new and bright-eyed chairman of the ECB, approaches his role, but he appears to have lost the plot in his short-sighted admiration for the innovations of the Indian Premier League (IPL). His extraordinary admission yesterday that in a kneejerk response to events in India he has asked the Domestic Structure Review Group (DSRG) to consider a new team structure for Twenty20 cricket in England and Wales is wide of the mark. Read the rest of this entry »

The Cricket Club of India (CCI) has said that it will not host any of the twenty-20 format Indian Premier League (IPL) matches. This is because none of CCI members is allowed to watch the IPL matches free of cost. Read the rest of this entry »