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There has never been anything like the Indian Premier League in cricket. Which is why nobody – not the fearful administrators of the global game, not the opportunistic founders, not the multimillionaire team owners, not the players rewarded to unprecedented levels, not the hard-nosed television rights holders – knows how it will turn out.

They suspect, they hope, they yearn that it will be an unparalleled worldwide triumph, the next sporting big thing. In their more fantastical moments they will have imagined an event that captures the imagination and TV time of the entire subcontinent and by extension the whole cricketing planet beyond.

But they cannot be certain. The IPL is a huge gamble. It seems to have the necessary ingredients – the players, the money, the novelty – but until the first game is played, and perhaps until the first week is done, the element of doubt remains.

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Source: Independent UK

Tags: Indian Cricket
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Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi says he wants to enter into a partnership with an English premier league in order to enable star England players to compete in the Indian championship.

“Our players are contracted only to the IPL, but as long as an English premier league was not played at the same time as ours, then I see no problem with partnership. I think it’s a good idea,” he said in an interview on Sunday.

His comments came amid reports that the three men running cricket in England will be visiting India at the start of the IPL championship next week.

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Source: Economic Times

Tags: English premier league, Lalit Modi
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Adam Gilchrist said that the Indian Premier League was not meant to just create money.“If all the development programmes are put in place, it could usher in a new chapter. I sincerely believe that the IPL is history in the making,” Gilchrist said during a media interaction on his arrival in the city to play for the Deccan Chargers in the IPL.

About his IPL goals, the former Aussie stumper said that the objective of everyone would be to win the title. “I look at the IPL this way: take the first two matches and then think of the semifinal and later the final,” he said.

About captaincy, Gilchrist said he never aspired for the post. “I never felt that I must be the captain. I think Ricky did a fantastic job as captain. Well, VVS (Laxman) is the natural choice for our IPL team,” he said.

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Source: Hindu

Tags: Adam Gilchrist, Indian Cricket, IPL Live
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Millions have already been spent. More will be spent in the next few days. But who gets to show the matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the world’s most lucrative cricket event, or who gets to see them is still not clear.

The stand-off, with the IPL management on one side and media — both print and electronic — on the other, has not been resolved yet, though the IPL top brass says that all outstanding issues relating to the media have been sorted out.

The National Broadcasters Association (NBA), a group of broadcasters, is said to be holding meetings on how to deal with this issue and the dreaded word ‘boycott’ has figured often enough.

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Tags: IPL, National Broadcasters Association
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Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers struck unbeaten half-centuries to take the visitors to 223-4 at stumps. South Africa have already managed a 147-run lead. Dale Steyn took a fiver to destroy India in the first session.

There could have been only one reason behind captain Anil Kumble’s decision to bat first on a lively surface at the Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera here – that he could buy some more time to heal his own injury and be able to bowl. What he didn’t consider though, was that his batsmen needed time too.

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Source: CricketNext

Tags: AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, Motera, Sardar Patel Stadium
India vs South Africa //

India 76
South Africa 223/4 (64.0 ov)
South Africa lead by 147 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

Stumps - Day 1 South Africa RR 3.48
Last 10 ovs 39/0 RR 3.90

JH Kallis - 60
AB de Villiers - 59

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Sri Lanka 98/3 (26.3 ov) vs West Indies
West Indies won the toss and elected to field first

Match delayed by rain - Day 1     Sri Lanka RR 3.69

Last 10 ovs 31/2 RR 3.10

Min overs remaining 64.3

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India 76
South Africa 99/1 (22.2 ov)
South Africa lead by 23 runs with 9 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

South Africa RR 4.46
Last 10 ovs 35/1 RR 3.50

Min overs remaining 46.5

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The Indian Premier League have confirmed they intend to support the MCC’s Spirit of Cricket initiative. The organisers of the Twenty20 competition have come to an agreement with the MCC and will ask each of the eight franchise teams to sign a declaration of adherence.

The text for the Spirit of Cricket first appeared as a preamble to the MCC’s Code of Laws in 2000 and is designed to emphasise sportsmanship and good grace in the game.

Lalit Modi, commissioner of the IPL, was delighted to have struck an agreement. “All the cricketers playing in the inaugural season of the IPL are role models for an entire generation of youth and it is crucial for youngsters all over the world to learn the values of this great game and the spirit in which it should be played,” he said. “The eyes of the world will be on the IPL and we want to see cricket, and the Spirit of Cricket, at its best.”

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Source: Times Online UK

Tags: Indian Premier League, IPL, Twenty20 competition
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Sachin Tendulkar, India’s star batsman, will miss the second Test against South Africa after aggravating a groin injury.

Tendulkar, who needs 172 runs to overtake West Indian Brian Lara as Test cricket’s leading run-scorer, did not field for most of the final day’s play in the first Test, which ended in a draw.

“Sachin will not be playing the next Test,” Niranjan Shah, Indian cricket board secretary, said.

Tendulkar will need a week to recover and the selectors replaced him with Mohammad Kaif for the second Test starting in Ahmedabad on Thursday, Shah added.

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Source: TimesOnline UK

Tags: Second Test, Second Test Ahmedabad
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