The ‘special relationship’ between the two cricketing nations soured nastily, but sanity will hopefully prevail now Haroon Lorgat has gone
The fifth edition of the IPL is set to begin amid concerns of financial mismanagement, drops in advertising and cricket fatigue among viewers.
Chris Cairns has been awarded damages after winning a libel action against former Indian Premier League chairperson Lalit Modi.
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/ 14 December 2011
Cricket great Sunil Gavaskar has said India’s cricket board owes him $1-million for sitting on the governing council of the Indian Premier League.
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/ 4 February 2011
Financially risky for CSA, it raises more questions about Majola’s subsequent bonus from the league
India’s cricket board has given suspended IPL boss Lalit Modi more time to reply to allegations of corruption against him dating back to 2008.
Despite all the mud-slinging and accusations against IPL boss Lalit Modi, nothing is likely to come of them as he has many powerful friends.
Suspended India Premier League (IPL) boss Lalit Modi has urged cricket fans to give him time to clear his name.
Indian cricket authorities suspended the driving force behind the Premier League on Monday in a bid to stem an escalating tax and match-fixing crisis.
Lalit Modi, the commissioner of the Indian Premier League, could be ousted within days in a fog of conflicting allegations and denials.
Income tax authorities swooped on companies associated with the IPL on Wednesday as the government widened its probe of the cash-rich tournament.
IPL chief Lalit Modi faced an uncertain future on Tuesday after the government launched a probe into the financial dealings of the tournament.
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has dismissed the security fears of Australian and New Zealand players, saying they are not irreplaceable.
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/ 8 December 2009
Pakistan’s cricketers will miss the next edition of the Indian Premier League due to a delay in securing visas for the lucrative IPL.
Lalit Modi has every reason to have a holiday to celebrate the successful staging of the second Indian Premier League season in South Africa.
Commissioner Lalit Modi claimed after Sunday’s final that the Indian Premier League (IPL) had become a global phenomenon.
Lalit Modi will be enjoying Sunday’s IPL final at the Wanderers with the gnawing knowledge that trouble awaits him on his return to India.
Horace Smith, founder of the gunsmith Smith & Wesson, once said: “Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.”
South Africa is to host the second season of the Indian Premier League competiton in April and May, Indian TV reported on Tuesday.
India spinner Harbhajan Singh has been banned for the remainder of a domestic Twenty20 league after he was found guilty on Monday of slapping compatriot Shanthakumaran Sreesanth. Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi told a news conference that the cricketer would be fined all of his match fees from the tournament.
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/ 29 January 2008
India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has been cleared of racial-abuse charges at a hearing in Australia, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Tuesday. ”He has been cleared — the racial charge has been dropped against him,” BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said.
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/ 29 January 2008
India will abandon the tour of Australia if spinner Harbhajan Singh is not cleared of racial abuse charges, a top Indian official said on Tuesday. Harbhajan was handed a three-Test ban by match referee Mike Procter after being found guilty of racially abusing Australia’s Andrew Symonds during the acrimonious Sydney Test earlier this month.
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/ 14 January 2008
The Indian cricket board’s official Twenty20 League has secured a 10-year rights contract worth more than -billion ahead of its launch in April, organisers said on Monday. Sony Entertainment and the Asia-based World Sports Group are behind the deal.