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IPL all set for Bangalore launch

After all the hype, the Indian Premier League, with its potential to transform world cricket forever, begins on Friday with a floodlit match in Bangalore.
The contests between eight teams with most of the top names in the game will be closely watched in England, the birthplace of Twenty20 cricket.
The ECB is in talks with an […]

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All or nothing: IPL opens amid soaring expectations

Having weathered a boycott threat from the media and numerous other controversies, the Indian Premier League is all set to roll with a heady mix of cricket and glamour on show in the opening match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Bangalore Royal Challengers here on Friday.
The Shah Rukh Khan-owned Knight Riders and Vijay Mallya’s Royal […]

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King Khan to take on Mithun Dada

It will be Shah Rukh Khan versus Mithun Chakraborty in cricket.
A fortnight after the gala launch of King Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders team for the multimillon dollar Indian Premier League, rival Zee-promoted Indian Cricket League has roped in ‘Mithun Dada’ to be the franchisee owner of one of its sides ‘Kolkata Tigers’.
“Yes, I have said […]

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Shah Rukh Khan dragged to court

After the glitzy launch of the Kolkata Knight Riders, Bollywood star and the owner of the IPL Kolkata team, Shah Rukh Khan is in the dock.
He along with the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) — the local organiser of the Twenty20 tournament — have been dragged to court.
CAB and SRK are in a tight spot […]

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Auction replay ends, but will it sell?

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is revolutionary all right, but does it make business sense?
The money forked out by franchisees like Vijay Mallya and Shah Rukh Khan, and the Rs 3,672 crore paid by Sony Entertainment Television for telecast rights, is eye-popping. But the question everyone’s asking is: ‘Can it be recovered?’
One of the unknowns […]

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