Kapil Dev came out this week with the often-heard “oh-my-god-cricket-is-going-to-die” mantra. He seemed to be very upset with the way cricket has turned out, especially with the IPL, and went so far as to say that the BCCI has screwed it up. The article in the Hindu is worth the read, but I’ll summarize
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After their latest tournament got burried in the pre-IPL hype (did you know the finals are going on?), the ICL is now trying out something new. They just announced an inter-country ICL tournament, which is kind of away from their inter-city league format.
The latest tournament, to be played in Hyderabad, is going to have 3 [...]

This is getting a little absurd. The are rumors flying around that the IPL is paying some players free money, just to stop them from defecting to the rival ICL league! Just what is happening here?
The IPL yesterday, through it’s rich daddy BCCI, strongarmed the ICC to officially recognize the IPL as a valid league [...]

IPL seems to churn out news with every passing day before its start on April 18, 2008. This time it is the case of CCI (Cricket Club of India) refusing to host IPL matches at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. Apparently, CCI had offered its ground to IPL but not the clubhouse and the club members’ children’s [...]

The ICL seems to have gone into the background with all this IPL hype, but make no mistake, the ICL is definitely making progress on all fronts.
The ICL kicks off the 2008 season with the ‘Edelweiss 20s Challenge’ Twenty20 tournament today with the Chandigarh Lions vs the Ahmedabad Rockets today. I was not really paying [...]

Despite all the hype and hoopla around the IPL, the rebel, break-away league is quietly gathering its own supporters. Earlier in the week Jason Gillespie came out in support of the of the ICL, saying that unless the ICC also supports the ICL, there is a large risk of the deep-pocketed leagues tearing the cricketing [...]

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 [...]