England batsman Kevin Pietersen has revealed that he was offered the chance to play in the Indian Premier League but insisted that he would never “turn my back on England,” in return for a bumper pay-day.
The IPL, a new Twenty20 competition, has attracted a host of the world’s top players with the likes of Australian […]

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The Indian Premier League (IPL) will look to reschedule its calendar in future to accommodate England players in the multi-million dollar Twenty20 tournament.
English players do not feature in the 44-day inaugural event which gets underway on April 18.
The dates clash with New Zealand’s tour and the start of the English county championship season.
“We are working […]

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GMR Group, the owners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Delhi team, approached the cricketers’ auction with a sound strategy - three options for each player they bid, a self-imposed monetary cap on each bid, and not to target current and unavailable Australians.
The GMR bidding team was also determined to get at least two in-form […]

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Former England wicketkeeper Paul Nixon believes the furore over the rebel Indian Cricket League will blow over in time.
Nixon was one of four England players to play in the unsanctioned league, which was created to cash in on Twenty20 cricket in the game’s biggest marketplace.
Yet as the competition was not given the blessing of the […]

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Considering requests from English players, Indian Premier League Chairman Lalit Modi on Thursday said the money minting Twenty20 competition was ready to adjust its future schedule to accommodate them.
Modi, who is also a Vice-Chairman of the BCCI, said England’s best players were keen to get involved.
“We have a huge amount of pressure from the English […]

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Sachin Tendulkar may have played a solitary Twenty20 International, but his Indian Premier League (IPL) Mumbai team owners Reliance Retail are confident he would be a roaring success even if he is pushing 35.
Some experts wonder if Tendulkar would be as big a success in the hit-and-run, energy sapping T20, the shortest version of the […]

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Cricket South Africa chief executive Gerald Majola congratulated wicketkeeper Mark Boucher on reclaiming the world record for dismissals in the game, calling him “an icon of the game”.
Boucher broke Ian Healy’s world record for the highest number of Test match dismissals during the Proteas’ tour of Pakistan last year and in the same series […]

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Indian Cricket has always been a big crowd puller. Where there are crowds, there are lots of avenues to make money. Everybody does, from Pepsi and Coke to the groundnut seller and the guy who sells paper sunshades. In a country known to produce shrewd businessmen, it did not take long to make cricket, […]

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Rashid Latif, aged 39, played 39 Test matches for Pakistan and 162 one-day internationals but was more noted for being the first player to go public on the match-fixing scandal in the nineties. He spoke with Bigstarcricket about his career and issues affecting Pakistan cricket, currently.
You have been doing some expert wicket-keeping coaching for the […]

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Fast bowler Shane Bond left New Zealand to play in the rebel Indian Cricket League, clinging to hope the ICL will eventually be officially recognized and that his international career may resume.
“I’m sure the restraint of trade things will eventually be tested and who knows what will open up. The landscape is changing all the […]

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