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Player Salary Caps To Be Lifted Next Year

May 8th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The $5 million salary cap per team that has been imposed this first season is all set to be lifted from next year, according to reports in NDTV today. The original reason the salary caps were imposed were to prevent the rich owners (read Mallya, Mukesh Ambani) from buying up all the top players at [...]

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Mallya names Bangalore Team After Booze

Feb 21st, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Teams, Top Stories

Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Bangalore Team, has named the team “Bangalore Royal Challengers”. What a nice name, no? Except that “Royal Challenge” is the name of one of United Breweries (Vijay Mallya’s flagship company) top brands. Co-incidence? I think not.
Advertising liquor is strictly banned in India, but that doesn’t stop the proxy-advertising. They’ve [...]

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