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 [...]
In normal circumstances, Australia’s unprecedented first-round exit from the World T20 would have prompted scathing criticism Down
Under.
The outrage will be a bit tempered, however, because of the fact that the Ashes are round the corner. Some might even explain away the loss by suggesting that Twenty20 is ‘fun cricket’, as Younis Khan so curiously [...]
Ireland’s cricketers have nothing to lose but perhaps a fortune to gain in their final World Twenty20 Group A match against champions India.
William Porterfield’s team are assured of their Super Eights progression, irrespective of the outcome at Trent Bridge tonight, thanks to their victory over Bangladesh at the same venue on Monday.
That result was hastened [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Following the recent culmination of IPL2 and with the ICC T20 World Cup just round the corner, TAM Media Research undertook a study to compare the performance and deliveries of both these popular cricket properties. The study indicates that IPL has managed more eyeballs than T20 World Cup, with numbers coming in from markets other [...]
