The ICC Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Speed on Sunday reportedly said that the ICC was considering giving the IPL an exclusive window so that all the players are available to play in the richest Twenty20 tournament in the world. This is a complete reversal from ICC’s earlier stand which was that “Nothing could be done [...]

The inaugural match of Indian Premier League(IPL) will be held at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on April 18th 2008 and the tournament will conclude on June 1st 2008 with final match at Mumbai.
As we all know that, the Indian summer will be at its peak in April-June and we hardly have a cricket [...]

Justin Langer, the Australian player, pulled out of the IPL after having been snapped up by the Jaipur team. Langer was not clear about why exactly he was withdrawing, but instead made philosophical statements like “When you go to your grave, people will remember what you did with your life rather than how much money [...]

As the dust of the IPL player auction settles (and the team owners wonder if they overpaid) everyone is now getting down to business. And the first order of business is wondering what to call themselves. Some folks like Vijay Mallya bought the teams with the understanding that they will be using them for advertising [...]

The Vijay Mallya owned Bangalore IPL franchise, The Royal Challengers, have roped in New Zealand’s legendary captain Martin Crowe to be the “Chief Cricket Officer”, whatever that means. The Indian team’s Venkatash Prasad has also signed up to the be coach.
What kind of stratergy is Mallya looking at for the Royal Challangers? We reported earlier [...]

A lot of pundits were warning this kind of thing will start to happen, but it is inevitable. New Zealanders Daniel Vettori, Jacob Oram and Brendon McCullum want to show up 10 days late for New Zealand’s official tour of England because they want to play in the IPL. The England tour starts April 27th, [...]

India is not the only country where the IPL’s recently concluded auction is causing the media to go crazy. The Australian Media has covered the IPL thoroughly, with lots of speculation and “analysis” about what the future holds for IPL. A part of the reason maybe the recent “Monkey” controversy with the Indian team, but [...]

Bal Thackrey, through the mouthpiece of the RSS, lashed out today against the IPL. It seems he doesn’t like the entire concept of it.
“Oh Pawar, what is happening in the realm of cricket?” he said. “These industrialists are throwing money in your cricket field as a result of which cricket is getting corrupt. Cricketers are [...]

Although the BCCI denies it, it is quite obvious that the IPL was a response to Zee’s break-away league, the Indian Cricket League (ICL). Most knee-jerk reactions are super-flops, but the BCCI seems to have pulled a miracle. Not only does it look like the IPL is a huge success so far (for the BCCI [...]

After being able to get just $400,000 compared to Symonds $1,340,000, Ponting lashed out today against Symonds, saying there was no good reason why he got so much less than Symonds.
“I thought I might have been able to attract a little bit more than that. The fact I haven’t made a lot of runs over [...]