The now $2 billion Indian Premier League property has come through an economic slowdown and other challenges with higher valuations for stakeholders.
Despite higher costs and smaller gate revenues, franchises will, on an average, take home about Rs 46 crore each, estimate insiders.
“I can’t share a figure on earnings. We are closing our books [...]
We all thought it was Shilpa Shetty who was going to dance with Akon at the IPL finals. Shilpa had even put it on her blog. And later had to change the information. Shilpa says she didn’t get time to rehearse for her performance with Akon. But neither did Katrina who finally went on stage [...]
The hype and hyperbole will end at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday when the mass cast of players for “IPL II: Out of Africa” get down to cricket and try to provide the watching world with episodes of blockbuster physical – and not celluloid – entertainment.
Singing, dancing and beauty pageants will never be far [...]
Lalit Modi informed media personnel including the Cricket360 team in a cricket news presentation that South Africa was always in his mind to host the IPL and that there were several reasons for this. He took the opportunity to give thanks to South Africans for their support and hospitality and the IPL/IMG team for smoothing [...]
Deccan Chargers are banking on the experience of Adam Gilchrist and the knowledge of VVS Laxman, who was replaced as captain by Gilchrist after the first IPL, to finish “a lot higher” than their bottom spot in 2008. Darren Lehmann, the team’s new coach, also said the side was let down by their bowling and [...]
Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi promised Wednesday a non-stop carnival atmosphere at this year’s tournament in South Africa.
There have been fears the Twenty20 event would lose some of its character because of the forced move across the Indian Ocean owing to a clash of dates with general elections that could have compromised [...]
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has reached a compromise with South African cricket provinces over the allocation of corporate suites, ending a row which threatened the tournament.
Indian officials originally demanded full control of hospitality boxes at every match to accommodate special guests as a non-negotiable requirement of host stadiums.
In return for surrendering boxes, suiteholders were [...]
South Africa’s ‘help the homeless’ campaign begins on Saturday, with the start of the Indian Premier League, and will continue in September with the hosting of the Champions Trophy slated first for Pakistan and then Sri Lanka. Remarkable how a sporting landscape once isolated has now become a safe haven.
Even more remarkable still that [...]
Draconian media laws that almost resulted in a blackout of the Indian Premier League (IPL), which begins in South Africa on Saturday, could red-card major sporting events heading to the country, including the 2010 World Cup.
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) is locked in a duel with Fifa, the world footballing authority, over [...]
