Kolkata Knight Riders official website was launched on the day the team name and logo were announced. The official website is at www.kolkataknightriders.com and the unofficial website is here : Kolkata Knight Riders.
The Eden Gardens the home stadium will be a sea of black and gold the official colors of the team with the logo [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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Too many business interests, too much time spent away from home and IPL. All these have prompted Shane Warne to retire from even first class cricket. He cut his final ties with Hampshire whose team he transformed over the 8 years he was with them. From being a small provincial club Hampshire has become a [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The BCCI has asked all the franchisees to apply for entertainment tax exemption for the IPL tournament matches. But if the goverment rejects this application then the franchise owners have to be prepared to pay what ever tax the goverment imposes. This was made clear by the BCCI to the franchisees.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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All captains have to take a pledge and avoid all forms of sledging. The BCCI is determined to make IPL a pleasant and controversy free tournament to avoid the kind of troubles that cropped up during the India-Australia series.
The captains have to take the pledge of “Spirit of Cricket” - to play by the spirit of [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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Black caps in the IPL - Daniel Vettori, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Ross Talyor and Kyle Mills have been asked to report for national duty by May 1. This decision was arrived at after talks between the IPL contracted players, coach, all the members of the New Zealand team and even the English cricketing authorities.
It [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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IPL has announced the ITC Welcome Group hotels will be the official hotels for the 44-day tournament across the 8 cities for the first 3 years.
UB and IPL will share the revenues 50:50 for the opening match of the IPL tournament at Bangalore.
Ravi Shastri and Gavaskar will be the star commentators for the IPL tournament.
Kingfisher [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The Indian Premier League will formally launch its website next month. BCCI will also get its much awaited portal site by July. BCCI is only of the major test playing countries that does not have a web presence.
IPL will launch its website on April 7 and this will run by North America-based company which will also develop the portal for [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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The inaugural IPL event and SRK latest quiz show on Star Plus are both slated to be mega events with mega promotions. All the companies that usually piggy back on cricket and SRK for their advertising have set a major part of their advertising revenues for these two.
The present South Africa-India series that is being [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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Red Chillies Enterntainment the owner of the IPL Kolkata Team - Kolkata Knight Riders has been dragged to court by the Bengal Cricket Lovers Forum. The forum has been formed recently and draws it support from the 31000 strong Cricket Association of Bengal members.
The Bengal Cricket Lovers Forum has 6000 members and its lawyers say that [...]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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IPL Mohali Team has announced the names of its public relations and on ground efforts management agency.
Avian Media will be the public relations manager for the IPL Mohali team and managing the teams PR services through out the country. The other agency will be promoting all the on ground activities and making the match day [...]
Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Kolkata Night Rider
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