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 [...]
Freddie Flintoff bowled the first six overs of his comeback after knee surgery; two before play and four during the lunch interval in the match between Lancashire and Somerset on Sunday.
Even better news: Kevin Pietersen is operating at fully 70 per cent fitness. One must look on the bright side after learning on Monday [...]
With the dashing opener ruled out of the T-20 World Cup with a shoulder injury, speculations are rife about how much he knew about the injury before embarking on the tour. Daggers have been drawn — some of them pointing at Viru and some at the Board. But the question being asked is — are [...]
Former Australian opener Michael Slater feels troubled all-rounder Andrew Symonds has lost his spark to play for the national team and is driven by big bucks.
In fact, the former Ashes hero believes Symonds won’t play again for Australia and will be looking at options overseas. Symonds has a year to run on his contract with [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
