The BCCI has sold the rights to the official IPL website to some american company for $50 million. And, ostensibly, in an attempt to please their new website owners, the BCCI has issued draconian restrictions on the ability of websites to cover the IPL league matches.
And so, after all the hulla-gulla, the website is still [...]

After the IPL announced some stupid media restrictions earlier this week which effectively prohibited online newspaper editions (including cricinfo) and blogs from using *ANY* pictures online, the media folks were predictable unhappy. The Editors Guild of India, an organization that represents print newspapers in India, today sent off a very angry letter to Lalit Modi [...]

The BCCI today came out with the so-called media rules for journalists (and presumably bloggers). The rules are so ridiculously absurd, that if it were announced a couple days earlier, people would have thought its an april fool’s joke. The BCCI says that media folks who take pictures at the games will not be allowed [...]