Australian board asked to cash in on Tendulkar

SYDNEY : Australian media and cricket followers believe that the next tour of India Down Under provides their board — Cricket Australia — to show not only its “maturity and awareness and worldliness” but also a “priceless opportunity to promote the Tendulkar farewell”.
Writing in The Australian over the weekend, noted cricket writer Mike Coward said: [...]

Kirsten likely to be named Team India coach

NEW DELHI, November 27: The race for the Indian cricket coach continues to throw up surprises with former South African batsman Gary Kirsten on Tuesday emerging as a front-runner for the high-profile job.
The former South African opener was interviewed in the capital by the Coach Selection Committee – comprising former captains Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri [...]

Email ‘threat’ to Pakistan team creates flutter

Kolkata: An email received by a New Delhi-based news channel threatening to trigger explosions during the second India-Pakistan Test match in Kolkata caused a flutter on Monday. Kolkata Police said it was beefing up security measures to prevent any untoward incident.
While city Police Commissioner Gautam Mohon Chakraborty denied that police had “received” any email threatening [...]

There is a place for everyone in ICL : Kapil Dev

I am so delighted! I am delighted to be back in Chandigarh, and back with some cricket to offer. Honestly, I never thought I would, some day, organise a cricket event of this magnitude in my city. Now that I am here, I want to share the best of my cricket with my people. If [...]

Australians are better built to bowl strong, says Yardley

NEW DELHI, November 26: India might have won the first Test against Pakistan in Delhi courtesy their bowlers but its pace battery is a far cry from becoming a tour-de-force.
Pace bowling is all in the breeding, said former Australian bowler Bruce Yardley. The Indian bowlers are not quite strong I guess, he said. The South [...]

Indian Cricket League to get 30 minutes on other Zee channels

Essel Group has announced that they would be broadcasting the first 30 minutes of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) matches on all Zee channels.
They are however excluding two of their movie channels (Zee Cinema and Zee Studio) from this plan.
This means that these domestic cricket matches would get telecasted on channels which are watchable in [...]

ICL races against time to put up cricket show

Chandigarh: The Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex cricket stadium in Panchkula, a satellite town of Chandigarh located in Haryana, is nothing less than a battlefield these days.There is a frenzy of activity at the cricket stadium of the imposing sports complex, located 15 km from here, named after Haryana’s political patriarch and former deputy Prime [...]

ICL on backfoot as ads dry up; sponsors back off

NEW DELHI: It’s not just cricketers that are having a rethink about teaming up with Subhash Chandra’s ambitious Indian Cricket League (ICL). Advertisers, too, seem to be having second thoughts about the league.
On-air spots on group channel Zee Sports, which is to broadcast the tournament, are learnt to be selling at 50-60% lower than the [...]

IPL door open for Lara

NEW DELHI : The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today said that the door is open for Brian Lara to join next year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), but the West Indies batting great would have to first snap all ties with the Essel Group-backed rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL).
BCCI vice president Mr Rajeev Shukla said Lara was free to [...]

ICL bowls 30-min specials googly to woo advertisers

In a last ditch effort to attract television advertisers to the India Cricket League, the Subash Chandra-promoted breakaway Twenty20 cricket series, the Zee management has decided to simulcast the first 30 minutes of all the ICL matches live across its 25 channels within India and seven international feeds. 
 
ICL, which is primarily a television property for [...]