Mohammed Yousuf has been cleared to take part in the IPL auction scheduled to take place in Feb. The rebel series of Indian Cricket League had filed a complaint against him.
But now the air seems to have cleared and Yusuf will be available for the indian premier league cricket series. Let’s see which of the [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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It is exciting times in terms of cricket in India. The Indian Premier League has not yet finalised it schedule nor players but the keen excitement and thrill that is has generated among fans, players and administrators is something else. It is as if everybody realizes there is something new and exciting happening and everyone [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The Indian Premier League is the first billion dollar sporting league in Asia. The telecast rights for the matches alone has brought in more than a billion dollars. The rights to teams bought by business houses, film stars and industrialists has bought in another $700 million dollars.
Elite cricketers from around the world will be playing along with [...]
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The beautiful city of Jaipur known for tourism, beautiful palaces, hot deserts and colourful turbans will be one of the 8 teams playing in the Indian Premier League Cricket Series.
The team is owned by Emerging Media. The IPL Jaipur team was bought for 67 million dollars. It’s going to be interesting watching the 8 teams fighting it out. [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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Indian Premier League Delhi Cricket Team has been bought out by GMR Holdings. The group bought the national capital city for $84 million dollars.
Virendra Sehwag will be in running to lead this team. Compared to other teams Delhi has not been strong in Cricket. But recent of crop of young players has made it a [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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India Cements market leaders in Cement in India bought out the Chennai team in Board Sponsored Indian Premier League. They won the rights to the team with a bid of $91 million.
The Chennai team was the inaugural Indian Cricket League Twenty20 championship. Of course the two leagues are completely different with a whole different set [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The IPL Hyderabad team was bought by Deccan Chronicle group. Deccan Chronicle is largest circulating newspaper in Andhra Pradesh and owns a range of businesses. They bought out the rights for the Hyderabad team for a whopping $109 million dollars.
Who will be the players representing this proud city which produced some of the finest batsmen [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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IPL Chandigarh or IPL Mohali team will be owned jointly by Preity Zinta and her boyfriend Ness Wadia. Ness the heir of Bombay Dyeing and Preity bid $76 million dollars to own the IPL Mohali team. Yuvaraj Singh who hails from Chandigarh might be in the running to lead the Mohali team. The dashing Punjab [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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Shah Rukh Khan becomes the proud owner of the IPL Kolkata Team. Bollywood and Cricket have always gone together - while the cricketers dazzled on pitch, Bollywood celebrities added glamour to the stands. They co-starred in ads, endorsed products together and many cricketers ended up choosing many leading ladies of Bollywood as their life partners.
Now, the relationship [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The IPL Mumbai Team is Owned by Mukesh Ambani. Ambani bought the rights for the Mumbai team by bidding a whopping 111.9 million dollars pipping Vijay Mallaya who bid 111.6 million. Now, the teams owners will get ready for buying players who will be auctioned live on Television. BCCI is allowing the free telecast of [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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