Archive for September, 2007

Manohar to take over from Pawar

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Mumbai: Shashank Manohar was on Thursday confirmed as president-elect of the BCCI, a day ahead of its 78th annual general meeting. He will succeed Sharad Pawar next year. [That Manohar would be the president-elect was reported by The Telegraph on August 22.] The Nagpur-based lawyer, one of the vice-presidents of the BCCI ...

We are not intimidated by BCCI: Subhas Chandra

Friday, September 28th, 2007

New Delhi, Sept. 28 (PTI): The BCCI may have stolen the thunder from the Indian Cricket League (ICL) by announcing its own Twenty20 league but Subhas Chandra, chief of Essel Group bankrolling ICL, insists he is not intimidated by the Board. ICL created a flutter by roping in 50 domestic players, ...

How BCCI almost scuttled Twenty20

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

New Delhi: India’s triumph in the final of the Twenty20 World Cup may have created a hysteria but the Cricket Board had almost scuttled it when they voted against this slam-bang format in an ICC meeting. At a time when other Boards were busy accommodating the abridged format, hoping to tap ...

Warne opts for less salary at IPL

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Sunday, 16 September , 2007, 19:07    Melbourne: Legendary Shane Warne has signed with the Indian Premier League, for "significantly less" amount than what was reportedly offered to him by the rebel ICL, media reports said today. Warne has inked the deal for less than USD 600,000, the minimum figure reportedly offered by ...

Former Australian Pacer Glenn McGrath Joins Indian Premier League To Explore Business Opportunity

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Having joined the Indian Premier League (IPL) post-retirement, former Australian pacer Glenn McGrath now wants to explore other business opportunities there. Like fellow Aussie Brett Lee, McGrath realises India is the biggest market for cricketer and the pacer has no qualms in admitting that IPL would give him the opportunity to ...

ICL is too small to challenge BCCI: Niranjan Shah

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

The rebel Indian Cricket League was too small an entity to challenge the authority of BCCI, Board secretary Niranjan Shah said on Sunday. "ICL is too small to challenge (BCCI), it is very small against the BCCI," Shah said. He said the BCCI initiative to start the Indian Premier League would ...

Billions at stake for a piece of Premier League

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Richard Scudamore marches into work at the Premier League every day fretting less about England's talent pool, foreign ownership and overplaying and more about problems most fans have never heard of, such as the rights dispute threatening the very future of the Premier League. "Some things are skirmishes, but these ...

McGrath looking forward to Indian Premier League but still prefers tests

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

SYDNEY, Australia: Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath is looking forward to his involvement in a new Twenty20 cricket league in India but remains a lover of five-day tests. McGrath, 37, who retired from test cricket last year as the top all-time wicket-taker among fast bowlers, has resumed light training in preparation ...

ECB Premier League crowns seven new champions

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

West Indian Cavaliers wrestled the Notts Premier League title away from defending champions Caythorpe to earn their seventh championship crown in nine seasons in the ECB Premier League while Finedon Dolben matched them for clean sweeps in the Northants League. The Nottingham side finished with an 11 point lead after the ...

Tendulkar appointed ambassador for Man U Opus in India

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed ambassador for the Manchester United Opus in India and the publishers are planning a similar epic about the Indian batting great. Tendulkar, who was the guest of honour at the Premier League match between Manchester United and Sunderland, has been named Indian ambassador for the voluminous ...