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Entries for June 4th, 2009

IPL Performances Not Pertinent to T20 World Cup for Kiwis

Looking back at the DLF IPL there were few standout performances by any of the several New Zealand players part of the different teams. However New Zealand’s international cricket coach Andy Moles and national selector Glenn Turner have dismissed the performances of the Kiwis at the IPL. According to Turner, the nature of T20 [...]

Australians should be out of IPL till attacks stop: Thackeray

Angry over the racial attacks on Indian students, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today said Australian players in IPL cricket teams should be removed till such incidents continue Down Under.
“Two things should be done immediately. Captains of Australian companies who have invested in India should be summoned and told that the business atmosphere would [...]

IPL Experience Will Help India in T20 World Cup:Dhoni

India’s cricket captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, believes the Indian Premier League has helped his players find form ahead of their World Twenty20 title defence.
India won the inaugural World Twenty20 two years ago in South Africa and Dhoni thinks his side, helped by their IPL experience, have a great chance of repeating that success.
He said: “Here [...]

Lalit Modi: how we made the IPL happen

Lalit Modi, chairman of the IPL, and Andrew Wildblood, Senior Vice President of IMG, the sports management company that helped make the IPL happen, sat down in Johannesburg with SPIN’s Nick Sadleir.
Lalit, you seem to have been at almost every IPL game this year…
Lalit Modi If there are two games on the same day in [...]

Shilpa Shetty is on holidays in London

With her beau in tow, Shilpa Shetty is enjoying holidays in London after a rather busy month in South Africa.
Ever since she began dating London-based businessman Raj Kundra, Shilpa has had her one foot in Mumbai and the other in London. Having kept busy for more than a month with the IPL in South [...]

Who will be the winner of IPL 3rd Edition ????????

Lets start guessing who will be the next ipl winner…. No idea??
Let me give a clue….
who was the winner of 1st Edition of IPL?
Rajasthan Royals.
Who was the winner of the second Edition of IPL?
Deccan Chargers.
And if you have noticed there is something common in both the teams…..there captain was retired Australian
Get it??
Still have a Doubt??
Ok [...]

IPL “Makes a Player Mentally Tough”

Just about everybody seems sure that India will win the cup this year too and retain the title they won in 2007. Some fear that that so much back to back cricket is going to take a toll on the boys; Gary Kirsten said fatigue will be team India’s biggest hurdle, and he’s not completely [...]

South African ad gurus laud IPL 2

The South African advertising industry has hailed the success of Indian Premier League’s (IPL) ad campaigns, which were conceptualised in just two weeks.
The IPL, which clashed with the general elections in India, was shifted to South Africa in just four week’s time.
According to John Davenport, creative head of the advertising agency Ireland Davenport, the biggest [...]

IPL over, TV gets a facelift

With the fight for the top slots heating up, general entertainment channels try new ways to stay connected
The scorching summer may have almost come to an end but the fierce competition among Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) is just beginning to hot up. Like last year, Season 2 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) hogged [...]

IPL can be a big hit at global venues: Shah

Buoyed by the success of the second season of IPL, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) plans to organise T20 tournaments on
international venues at least once in three years.
Talking to TOI, IPL’s vice-president Niranjan Shah said here that the tournament can become a global event and this has been proved by its [...]