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A Strong Batting Line-up for Kings XI Punjab in IPL Season 2

While the Kolkata Knight Riders have managed to rope in some big names in cricket like Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum, Punjab’s Kings XI haven’t been quite so fortunate. But nevertheless it will be foolish to consider them any less formidable than the former; as last year’s semi-finalists, the Kings XI are still a daunting [...]

Punjab Coach Thinks IPL Teams well matched; Competition Tough

The coach for the Kings XI Punjab IPL team, Tom Moody is facing the prospect of going into the tournament with a much depleted side, but he believes that the second edition of the IPL will be more competitive than the inaugural edition. He thinks the teams are evenly matched and that as of now [...]

Moody expects tough IPL contest

Kings XI Punjab coach Tom Moody believes the second edition of the IPL will be more competitive than the first while the team’s captain, Yuvraj Singh, was hopeful his side could go better than the semi-finals this year.
“There is no way anybody can pick one team above the other. All the sides were evenly [...]

Owais Shah: IPL’s not about the cash

Owais Shah has hit out at cynics who accuse him and England’s other IPL stars of greedily putting the Ashes bid in jeopardy.
The Middlesex batsman is in South Africa alongside Kevin Pietersen, Andy Flintoff, Paul Collingwood, Ravi Bopara and Dimitri Mascarenhas aiming to fill their boots in cricket’s most lucrative showpiece.
Over the coming weeks they [...]

IPL offers learning curve to Kevin Pietersen

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 [...]

Flintoff to Brush-up his T-20 Skills in IPL Season 2

A hip injury, thigh injury and finally a thumb injury – it was far too much for the English cricketer Andrew Flintoff. But the optimistic cricketer who was bought for a whopping $1.5 price in the IPL Season 2 auction by the Chennai Super Kings hopes that things will work in his direction in the [...]