CRICSTARS THE STARS OF CRICKET

International news agencies like The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France Presse will not be covering the IPL as the terms and conditions prevent them from supplying content to cricket websites around the world.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has sold about 70 per cent of the tickets in the eight venues at which the 56-match Twenty20 tournament will be played.

Shaun Tait still had not received permission to play in the Indian Premier League, raising fresh questions about his fitness and future as a Cricket Australia-contracted player.

Pakistan Cricket Board have cleared the players to participate in IPL’s second season to be played in South Africa.

Harbajan-Sreesanth-Controversy-IPL

The Harbhajan Singh – Sreesanth fracas took a dramatic turn, as the BCCI suspended Harbhajan Singh from the Indian Premier League (IPL) with immediate effect. Harbhajan will be put under suspension until further hearing. He won’t be playing in today’s match.

The BCCI had condemned Harbhajan’s behaviour and had issued him a notice, asking to explain his conduct by Monday 28th April.. The latest development put Harbhajan in deep trouble and it may well affect his cricket career..

Do watch this space for more updates on Cricket, Indian Premier League and Cricket Stars..

Official websites of all the franchise of Indian Premier League.

• Kings XI Punjab: http://www.kingsxipunjab.com/
• Mumbai Indians: http://www.themumbaiindians.com/
• Deccan Chargers: http://www.deccanchargers.com/
• Royal Challengers: http://www.royalchallengers.com/
• Rajasthan Royals: http://www.rajasthanroyals.com/
• Kolkata Knight Riders: http://www.kolkataknightriders.com/
• Chennai Super Kings: http://www.chennaisuperkings.com/
• Delhi Dare Devils: http://www.delhidaredevils.com/

Keep watching this space for more updates on Indian Premier League and Cricket Stars..

Advertising guys are debating whether the DLF IPL promotional video is a rip off of a 5 year old Fox Sports base ball ad . The splash may be inspired by the baseball video, but the song and karmyudh concept looks 100% original.

What do you guys think..

The IPL will start with a short, sweet opening ceremony tomrrow at Bangalore(No SRK vs Katrina Dance Shows thankfully) The opening match is scheduled between Kolkata Knight Riders against the Bangalore Royal Challengers

Canadian company Live Current Media struck a 10-year deal with IPL to develop and generate revenue from two new web portals, IPLT20.com and BCCI.tv. LCM will make a guaranteed payment of $5m a year – $3m for the BCCI and $2m for IPL – for the online rights.

Tim May,is worried that many players have not received their initial Indian Premier League fees and has warned if the problem is widespread they could walk away from their contracts. Lol

Kolkata Police has demanded Rs 25 to 30 lakhs for providing additional security to the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches to be played at the Eden Gardens, though the amount, six times the standard fee, is negotiable they were demanding such a high fees bcz of commercial nature of the tournament as well as some entertainment events inside the venues….good mint more money from BCCI and King Khan, funnily Kolkata Police were demanding a food allowance of Rs 900 per day..saab ki nazar BCCI ki khazana pe hai

A resident of Faridabad filed a case in Supreeme Court questioning — Is IPL promoting liqour in the name of cricket? The Supreeme court bench rejected the plea for an early hearing on the matter

The news channels that threatened to boycott the IPL have withdrawn the threat after talks with Lalit Modi. IPL comromised on a greater extent and agreed offer four minutes of free match footage instead of the 30 seconds that was offered previously. Also, the ban on channels using the archival footage has been removed.

Cricket Australia has said that it is open to the idea of launching its own version of a privately funded Twenty20 competition similar to the Indian Premier League, so do ECB.. I guess all these guys must be thankfull to Zee for starting this rat race

• One more celebrity Bollywood star joined in IPL Bandwagon, Katrina Kaif will promote Vijay Mallya’s Royal Challengers Katrina will shoot an exclusive music video for Mallya’s team directed by Sanjay Gupta.

• 38 year old Aussie cricketer Darren Lehmann will replace South African skipper Graeme Smith in Jaipur-based IPL franchise the Rajastan Royals’ opening matches, thanks to Shane Warne, but of all cricketers Darren Lehmann??common sense is not that common

• Malcolm Speed feels there was no immediate need to carve out a slot for the Indian Premier League in the Future Tours Programme at the moment and feels the biggest was how to integrate the T20 format with Tests and ODIs to ensure that none had to face disinterest of the fans. Ha well said its not the test format..but flat test pitches like the one at chennai which spoil the thrill of test matches

• England players could be allowed to play in the Indian Premier League at the ECB’s discretion, welcome guys to the party