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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 [...]

IPL II insured for $286m, Dhoni highest among players

The second edition of Indian Premier League, beginning tomorrow here, has been insured for $286 million, more than double the amount $125
million spent last season, owing to terror threats.
Besides, the whopping sum for overall insurance for the tournament, India and Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has attracted the highest individual insurance cover [...]

Tait left shattered as IPL ban hits hard

CRICKET Australia has forbidden Shaun Tait from playing in the Indian Premier League, meaning the South Australian quick will forfeit his $500,000 pay cheque from the Rajasthan Royals.
With a watchful eye on its growing ranks of walking wounded fast bowlers, CA has refused to release Tait because, it says, he is yet to recover from [...]

ICC should make window for IPL: Warne

International Cricket Council lacks ‘common sense’, otherwise it would have created a separate window for the Indian Premier League, said spin legend Shane Warne.
A vociferous advocate of a separate window for the Twenty20 event, Warne said no international matches should have been scheduled for the month of April to allow all players compete in the [...]

Warne hopes jeers turn to cheers in IPL

In a place where Bollywood is the buzzword, where superstars like Shilpa Shetty, Preita Zinta and Shah Rukh Khan are the attractions, it’s ironic that the man nicknamed “Hollywood” is the main drawcard.
He may have retired two years ago, but Australian legend Shane Warne is the biggest star of the Indian Premier League. The fact [...]

IPL next stop for Kamran

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 [...]

Rags to riches for IPL slumdog millionaires

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 [...]

Warne backs Kamran, Jadeja and Yusuf to fire

Shane Warne the Rajasthan Royals captain, has named Kamran Khan, a 18-year-old rookie left-arm fast bowler, as one of the players to watch out for in the IPL starting in Cape Town on Saturday. Warne has also provided fresh insights into his relationship with Graeme Smith, a bitter rival once but an IPL team-mate now, [...]

Shane Warne leads IPL charge

AUSTRALIA’S impact on the Indian Premier League is sure to be huge despite so many players being chosen for the one-day series against Pakistan.
Seven IPL-contracted stars have been selected in Australia’s 14-man squad for the series starting in Dubai on April 22 after the one-day series against South Africa ends on Friday.
The list includes [...]

Royals out to defend IPL title

The Rajasthan Royals were the inaugural winners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and with the iconic Shane Warne pulling the strings on the field and Bollywood superstar Shilpa Shetty the public face of the franchise, are arguably the most high profile of the IPL outfits.
And with Proteas skipper Graeme Smith and lanky South African [...]