Matthew Hayden has been cleared by Cricket Australia to play for Chennai Super Kings in the Champions League Twenty20.
Australia coach Tim Nielsen said Hayden would be available for the MS Dhoni led side for the tournament starting December 3.
Hayden, who will be playing his 100th Test in the second match against New Zealand at the […]
Chennai Super Kings, who will appear in the CL T20, became the first team in the cricketing world to have their own fan club.
Taking their cue from ‘fan clubs’ in the United Kingdom and other European countries and also the USA, the CSK launched its fan club here today, offering unique benefits including a host […]
Middle order batsman AB de Villiers and fast bowler Dale Steyn will appear for the Titans in the Champions League T20.
Titans, also with Test left-arm spinner Paul Harris and pace bowler Morne Morkel in their ranks, will start their campaign with a match against Middlesex, the England Twenty20 domestic champions, in Chennai on December 5. […]
England will resist attempts to create an annual window to allow players to cash in on the Indian Premier League.
The fixture clash between England’s annual early season Test series and the IPL, which is being staged between April 10 and May 29 next year, has caused considerable friction in recent weeks between the two parties.
“My […]
England have failed to reach agreement with their Indian counterparts over the release of players for the IPL.
David Collier and Giles Clarke, the chief executive and chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, spent the last two days locked in talks with India’s Lalit Modi over a number of issues.
They were hopeful of coming […]
Ricky Ponting has revealed that his Kolkata Knight Riders captain Sourav Ganguly kept him waiting at nets during the IPL.
The retired former Indian captain had also got on Steve Waugh’s nerves by being late for toss on several occasions.
“There were couple of times when I was due to use his net straight after him but […]
Lalit Modi says Kevin Pietersen needs to be available for a substantial number of games to make it viable for them to play in the IPL.
Interviewed in the December issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine, Modi says: “Are the franchise owners happy for Kevin Pietersen to play a handful of matches and then go away? […]
The appeal hearing into Pakistan seamer Mohammad Asif’s doping case before an Indian Premier League drugs panel will resume in Mumbai on 29 November.
The 25-year-old fast bowler tested positive for banned drug nandrolone during the IPL semi-finals in May.
Asif’s second sample, carried out under World Anti-doping Agency conditions, was also positive and led to a […]
Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has predicted that the success of the Indian Premier League and Twenty20 will encourage more youngsters in his country to choose cricket over rugby. He will not be playing for the Chennai Super Kings in next month’s Champions League but was hopeful of taking over as the IPL team’s […]
The IPL offered four tickets in the chairman’s box to the final match of the 2009 IPL season t a Charity Auction Gala.
The auction was held at the The Dorchester Hotel in London to raise money for Magic Bus, a Mumbai-based charity.
The IPL’s popularity reflected from the fact that the tickets received ardent bidding. A […]
Michael Hussey has opted to play for his IPL team Chennai Super Kings instead of Australian state side Western Australia in the upcoming Champions Twenty20 League in December.
Hussey’s name was missing from Western Australia’s 15-man squad which will be led by Marcus North and includes other IPL participants Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach and Luke Ronchi, […]
Ray Jennings, the former South Africa coach, has warned of sweeping changes in his new side, the Bangalore Royal Challengers, and voiced concern over the fitness and motivation levels of the “older guys” in the team. “If the top guys don’t perform, it’s time to move on,” he said.
Jennings said he was surprised at the […]