Do you remember the scenes from the winning moments of the Twenty20 world cup? Team India was overjoyed! And it was obvious that they really really wanted to win. For national pride, for the prize money, for all the glory and most importantly, to improve their own chances of being in the next match!
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Lalit Modi, the big boss of the BCCI and now the IPL is being hailed in the media for pulling close to $1 Billion out of thin air - the white monster called the IPL. The BCCI, already flush with cash, has pulled a fast one by creating this league. If the BCCI was a [...]

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 [...]

After paying the super-high annual salaries to the cricketers, the teams have now settled back to wonder what happens if their 6-Crore-a-year Dhoni ends up injured and can’t play. Solution? Insurance!
The BCCI contract requires the teams to buy insurance to cover these kinds of eventualities. This has scope for plenty of scope for innovation in [...]