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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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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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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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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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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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Amidst glitz, glamour and laser show, Chennai Super Kings formally announced their 24-member team, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the 2008 DLF Indian Premier League cricket tournament.TS Raghupathy, executive president of India Cements, also announced Aircel Cellular and Reebok as the title and apparel sponsors, respectively here on Saturday night.

Former South African captain Kepler Wessels will coach the team while Gregory King will be the physical trainer. Tommy Simsek will be the team physio.

Chennai Super Kings have also appointed Tamil cine stars Vijay and Nayanthara as their “star ambassadors”, both of whom were present at the gala launch along with Dhoni.

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Two of England’s leading international grounds, Lord’s and The Oval, are considering offers to stage exhibition games involving teams from the Indian Premier League, according to a report in The Times.

Although the venues for the initial games have already been allocated in India, there seems an increasing likelihood that other international venues will be also be used, as a way to promote the tournament around the world as much as provide world-class facilities. As it stands, however, the London venues will only host exhibition matches.

Paul Sheldon, the Surrey chief executive, declined to comment to The Times, while a spokesman for the MCC also refused to make a statement.

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April 18: Bangalore v Kolkata at Bangalore
April 19: Mohali v Chennai at Mohali and Delhi v Jaipur at Delhi
April 20: Mumbai v Bangalore at Mumbai; Kolkata v Hyderabad at Kolkata
April 21: Jaipur v Mohali at Jaipur
April 22: Hyderabad v Delhi at Hyderabad
April 23: Chennai v Mumbai at Chennai
April 24: Hyderabad v Jaipur at Hyderabad
April 25: Mohali v Mumbai at Mohali
April 26: Bangalore v Jaipur at Bangalore; Chennai v Kolkata at Chennai
April 27: Mumbai v Hyderabad at Mumbai; Mohali v Delhi at Mohali
April 28: Bangalore v Chennai at Bangalore
April 29: Kolkata v Mumbai at Kolkata
April 30: Delhi v Bangalore at Delhi.
May 1: Hyderabad v Mohali at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Kolkata at Jaipur
May 2: Chennai v Delhi at Chennai.
May 3: Hyderabad at Bangalore at Hyderabad; Mohali v Kolkata at Mohali
May 4: Mumbai v Delhi at Mumbai; Jaipur v Chennai at Jaipur
May 5: Bangalore v Mohali at Bangalore
May 6: Chennai v Hyderabad at Chennai
May 7: Mumbai v Jaipur at Mumbai
May 8: Delhi v Chennai at Delhi; Kolkata v Bangalore at Kolkata
May 9: Jaipur v Hyderabad at Jaipur
May 10: Bangalore v Mumbai at Bangalore; Chennai v Mohali at Chennai
May 11: Hyderabad v Kolkata at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Delhi at Jaipur
May 12: Mohali v Bangalore at Mohali
May 13: Kolkata v Delhi at Kolkata
May 14: Mumbai v Chennai at Mumbai; Mohali v Jaipur at Mohali
May 15: Delhi v Hyderabad at Delhi
May 16: Mumbai v Kolkata at Mumbai
May 17: Delhi v Mohali at Delhi; Jaipur v Bangalore at Jaipur
May 18: Hyderabad v Mumbai at Hyderabad; Kolkata v Chenna at Kolkata
May 19: Bangalore v Delhi at Bangalore
May 20: Kolkata v Jaipur at Kolkata
May 21: Mumbai v Mohali at Mumbai; Chennai v Bangalore at Chennai
May 22: Delhi v Kolkata at Delhi
May 23: Mohali v Hyderabad at Mohali.
May 24: Delhi v Mumbai at Delhi; Chennai v Jaipur at Chennai
May 25: Bangalore v Hyderabad at Bangalore; Kolkata v Mohali at Kolkata
May 26: Jaipur v Mumbai at Jaipur
May 27: Hyderabad v Chennai at Hyderabad
May 28 and 29: Rest days
May 30: First semi-final at Mumbai
May 31: Second semi-final at Mumbai
June 1: Final at Mumbai

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Five New Zealand players signed with the Indian Premier League have been given permission to miss the opening two matches of the England tour so they can appear in more lucrative Twenty20 games. In another shift from tradition caused by the IPL, Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Ross Taylor and Kyle Mills will arrive after the one-day warm-up against MCC on April 27 and the three-day fixture with Kent.

The delay means the quintet will be able to turn out in more matches - and gain larger payments - for the IPL teams, which start the competition on April 18. New Zealand Cricket wants the men in England by May 1 so they can be involved in the clashes with Essex and England Lions before the first Test at Lord’s on May 15.

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Out of the national side for the past three years, pacer Lakshmipathy Balaji has been included as an additional bowler in the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Chennai Super Kings team.

Announcing Balaji’s inclusion, V B Chandrasekar, a former selector and head of cricketing matters in the Chennai Super Kings, said, “We have pitchforked him in our team as an additional bowler. He has been in action after recovery from injury in the TNCA’s first division matches this season.”

“Balaji has been effective in two spells of 10 overs, though he has not been tried on the trot. He is surely going to be a lethal weapon in our scheme of things in the Twenty20 IPL matches,” he said.

He said the whole composition of the team has to be decided this evening and the squad list would be sent to BCCI’s IPL Committee first.

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