BCCI releases details on how it will sell IPL

India’s cricket authorities released terms for owning teams in their proposed Indian Premier League, projecting the franchises as both a profit-making business opportunity as well as platforms for corporate branding. The prospectus, however, doesn’t set any minimum bid price for tenders set to be floated later this month.
 
BCCI vice-president and chairman of Indian Premier League, [...]

BCCI okays $400,000 sign-on fee for Warne

Shane Warne will be the Indian Premier League’s most expensive signing, at a cost of US$400,000 for the first season, set to kick off in April 2008. The finance committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India met in Mumbai on Friday and approved several decisions taken by the IPL’s governing council regarding [...]

IPL only with CA consent: Gilchrist

HOBART: Wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist says Australia’s cricketers are not trying to be “rebels” and will heed the company line when it comes to playing in the Indian Premier League.
The vice-captain said on Sunday that he was one of about a dozen top-level players to receive a letter from Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland, warning [...]

Gilchrist’s fears about IPL

Melbourne: Cribbing about burnout and then making a beeline to play in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) would portray cricketers as hypocrites, fears Australia vice- captain Adam Gilchrist.
Gilchrist said though cricketers had always played county cricket to earn extra money in the off-season, complaining about burnout and then making a dash for cash in [...]

IPL boss: we won’t lure stars

INDIA’S Twenty20 supremo has guaranteed the cashed-up Indian Premier League will not attempt to lure international players away from their national teams, allaying concerns of a Packer-style split developing within the game.
Lalit Modi’s comments come in response to a strongly-worded letter from Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland, addressed to senior Australian players who have [...]

ICL vs IPL: Clash of cricket titans

One of the most hotly debated issues in Indian cricket right now is the advent of the rebel Indian Cricket League and whether it stands a chance against it’s more high-profile and official cousin, the IPL.
The jury is still out on whether the ICL can survive the competition, but as of now the Boses at [...]

War of the leagues get uglier

The tussle for supremacy between The Kapil Dev led Indian Cricket League and  the Sharad Pawar led Indian Premier League battle has worsened.
In the latest sequence of events, the Indian Cricket League has launched a scathing attack on the IPL by questioning it’s integrity right from the administrators, players and the officials.
This is after 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 [...]

BCCI to add $59 mn annually to IPL kitty

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) expects broadcasters to pay at least $59 million for a year’s broadcasting rights of its fledgling Indian Premier League.

 

The Twenty20 league will involve 56 matches in a year. The base price was arrived at BCCI’s meeting on Monday.

 

Last year, Nimbus Communications paid BCCI $612 million (around [...]

IPL telecast rights up for sale at Rs 1,000 cr

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is expected to issue tender forms for broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the coming week. According to industry sources, the winner might have to fork out over Rs 1,000 crore for a five year telecast rights. 
 
Last weekend, three broadcasters Nimbus Communications, Sony [...]