The Big Picture
Kings XI Punjab and the Rajasthan Royals are both looking to open their account in the IPL after coming up second-best in Saturday’s matches. Punjab were undone at home by the brilliance of Michael Hussey but their abundance of riches means they are overwhelming favourites to win in Jaipur. Rajasthan, on the other […]

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In a match dominated by South African stars, the batting efforts of Mark Boucher and Jacques Kallis edged the all-round contribution of Shaun Pollock, as Bangalore Royal Challengers recovered from Friday’s mauling to register their first win of the tournament. Set a challenging 166 by the Mumbai Indians, Bangalore rode on an unbeaten 39 from […]

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Mohali: Kings XI Punjab is being captained by none other than the six-sixes man Yuvraj Singh. CNN-IBN’s Roma Khanna caught up with him ahead of his all-important first match.
Roma Khanna: King of T20 is leading Kings XI Punjab…
Yuvraj Singh: I am happy to be leading such a wonderful side, and I’m very excited about the […]

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Daredevils’ Gambhir and Royals’ Kaif appeared confident of their respective teams doing well in the opening match of the DLF Indian Premier League despite the absence of stars.
Delhi Daredevils batsman Gautam Gambhir claims that home advantage would give his team the edge in their high-profile DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) opening match against Rajasthan Royals […]

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THE IPL Twenty20 tournament has the power to mend international cricket’s destructive feuding, according to Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist.
The tit-for-tat summer of spats is set to climax today when Australia and India clash at the SCG in the first final of the one-day series.
Gilchrist admitted the season had “got out of hand” and had been […]

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Mumbai: The DLF Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Mumbai franchisee, Reliance Group, has signed up Baroda wicket-keeper Pinal Shah along with Mumbai players Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane and Maharashtra’s Yogesh Takawale.
“We signed Pinal Shah two days ago. All four will play in the inaugural season. We will make other announcements soon,” R. Balachandran, President and Chief […]

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PL commissioner Lalit Modi will stand by an “informal understanding” with the ECB that keeps England players out of the IPL for the first season as it clashes with the county season. However, he has warned things could be different in the future.
“I know a lot of our owners are in touch with the English […]

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Sydney, March 1 (IANS) The Indian Premier League (IPL) has the power to mend international cricket’s destructive feuding, feels Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist.
Gilchrist admitted the season had ‘got out of hand’ and had been ‘exhausting’ because of the off-field drama and political power plays.
The retiring Australian was hopeful that relationships among international players could be […]

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Melbourne: Training its guns at national boards for their discriminatory attitude towards the ICL, the Federation of International Cricketers’ Association has argued players should be free to play in any tournament.
Tim May, the chief executive of FICA, said his organisation “neither supports nor rejects the ICL” and their aim “is to ensure that players rights […]

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That bourgeois effect
Private property, enterprise and big money are not quite the stuff a Marxist daydreams about. Quite the contrary, in fact. And when all three seem to come together in a blaze of razzmatazz, it is enough to make even our democratically elected communists want to, well, puke.
Enter comrade Gurudas Dasgupta, […]

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