Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni has beaten him to be the most valuable player in this year’s edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) that begins in South Africa on April 18, 2009.
The Chennai Super Kings’ skipper attracted the highest individual insurance cover of $10.5 million, or Rs 52 crore, as the eight IPL team owners [...]
Small screen’s diva Mandira Bedi is back with a bang! Well the pretty lady who shot to fame through Cricket is returning to cricket. In 2003 during the world-cup series Mandira had become a household name and she was more so popular for her sizzling outfits (as they say so – her noodle-strap blouses / [...]
Batting genius Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday said Indian Premier League (IPL) has changed the face of cricket in the country and feels the shifting of the Twenty20 tournament to South Africa would not impact its following in India.
The IPL this year will be played in South Africa as it clashed with the general elections in [...]
Nicholls and Steyn, the South African security agency acting on behalf of the Indian Premier League, has confirmed it took “the necessary precautions” following reports of a death threat to Lalit Modi, the IPL’s highly influential chairman and commissioner. The threat is alleged to have come from criminals in the Indian underworld thought to be [...]
Kamran Khan, the 18-year old Rajasthan Royals rookie left-arm seamer who has shot into prominence after taking a wicket off a yorker in an IPL warm-up game against the Cape Cobras over the weekend, has expressed his happiness at receiving a US$24,000 contract with the franchise but wished he had received the money sooner as [...]
The Indian Premier League T20 tournament in South Africa will provide India the perfect platform to prepare for their title defence in the World Twenty20 Championships in England in June, feels charismatic opener Gautam Gambhir.
Gambhir said getting the opportunity to play some quality Twenty20 cricket during the IPL would definitely act in favour of the [...]
With Indian Premier League becoming a rage over a span of two years, other countries too are set to take their T-20 plunge. It’s just six months away when IPL’s US cousin will see the light of the world. USA is going to launch its inaugural T-20 series in October this year.
With Twenty-20 tournament traveling [...]
Sleeping on railway platforms and going hungry was Kamran Khan’s daily, depressing routine as he struggled with abject poverty in his dusty home town of Azamgarh in eastern India.
But the advent of the Indian Premier League has turned things around for the teenager.
A raw left-arm pace bowler, Khan was picked by Rajasthan Royals, the inaugural [...]
The world’s biggest gum company Wrigley today announced its sponsorship tie-up with all the eight franchise teams of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the second edition of the T20 tournament starting in South Africa from April 18.
“Wrigley has entered into separate sponsorship agreements with the eight IPL franchise teams. Our sugar free brand ‘Orbit’ [...]
Her busy campaign schedule for the general elections notwithstanding, Congress’ star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi will cheer for Shahrukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders in the second Indian Premier League starting April 18 in South Africa.
“I guess so, yes,” Priyanka said when asked whether she would support Kolkata Knight Riders during the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament that was [...]
