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 [...]
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is looking forward to uniting all the talents at his disposal during the World Twenty20 in England after competing against his team-mates in the Indian Premier League.
India are the defending World Twenty20 champions after winning the inaugural edition in South Africa two years ago.
Since then the IPL, a lucrative franchise [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The enthusiastic public response for the Indian Premier League (IPL) parade has convinced the league’s chairman that the tournament’s move to South Africa has already been a success.
The second edition of the world’s biggest Twenty20 tournament was moved out of India last month due to security concerns and logical issues surrounding the general elections currently [...]
In a bid to glitz the tournament up to the hilt, IPL chairman Lalit Modi has spared no costs to get fans into the stadiums and retain the global TV audiences that made the inaugural Twenty20 tournament a success.
So it was no surprise when Telegraph Sport learnt that Modi has spent lavishly in South [...]
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 [...]
Cape Town is readying for the biggest celebrity influx of the year as the off-field stars of the Indian Premier League (IPL) converge on the Mother City.
As a popular holiday destination and film-shoot location, Cape Town is no stranger to the rich and famous, but with the glamorous Twenty20 tournament due to start here Saturday, [...]
The Chennai Super Kings lost in the final of last year’s Indian Premier League to the Rajasthan Royals. They won nine of their 16 games.
IPL Profile: Rajasthan Royals
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest paid player in the league, will captain the Kings.
The team’s other stars include the world’s best spin bowler, Sri Lanka’s [...]
