February 16th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
BCCI and Sahara have finally reached an agreement. Pune Warriors India will continue to play in the IPL and Sahara will continue as it’s main sponsors. An hour before IPL 5 auction was to begin, Sahara pulled out from sponsoring Pune Warriors India. They also withdrew as main sponsors of team India. Sahara had earlier requested BCCI [...]
February 12th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
Sahara dropped a bombshell just before IPL auction when they announced they are ending their contract with the Indian Cricket Team as sponsors. They also decided to pull out of Pune Warriors India. It shook BCCI and Pune Warriors players. Sahara said they were open for talks. BCCI after commenting the whole thing as ‘unfortunate’, [...]
February 6th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
BCCI are at it again. Yet another issue involving money. How many have we seen recently? There was an issue with Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals and they moved to court to play in the IPL. Kochi Tuskers Kerela are debarred from the IPL. Nmbus sports’s contract has been terminated. In BCCI style, Sahara [...]
February 4th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
Chennai Super Kings: They finished their auction in a jiffy. Ravindra Jadeja was acquired by them at $2 Million. They went into a tie-breaker and quoted more amount than Deccan Chargers. Smart Buy: Ravindra Jadeja adds various dimensions to the team with his all-round skills. Chennai loves to play with spinners and the track will [...]
February 4th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
Players sold: Brendon McCullum- Kolkata Knight Riders- $900,000 Ravindra Jadeja- Chennai Super Kings-$2 million. Clinched him in tie-breaker. Muttiah Muralitharen- Royal Challengers Bangalore-$220,000 Mahela Jayawardene- Delhi Daredevils- $1.4 million Herschelle Gibbs- Mumbai Indians- $50,000 Brad Hodge- Rajasthan Royals- $475,000 Parthiv Patel- Deccan Chargers- $650,000 Dinesh Chandimal- Rajasthan Royals- $50,000 Andre Russell- Delhi Daredevils- $450,000 Mitchell [...]
February 4th, 2012 by Alagappan Vijayakumar | No Comments
Jackpot for Indian Fast bowlers! RP.Singh was bought by Mumbai Indians for 600,000$. But where is he?? I wonder if he would know that today is IPL auction day.Anyways hope someone informs him and he starts reducing his weight! Vinay kumar was sold to RCB in a whopping 1 million dollar deal,courtesy-good showing in odi’s [...]
February 4th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
Sahara India Parivar pulls out of the Indian team sponsorship. This has been announced on the day of the auction. They have also pulled out of Pune Warriors sponsorship. What happens to the Pune Warriors team? “Sahara to dissociate with BCCI/IPL and reinvest in setting up of 20 sports promotion centres, with an international standard [...]
February 2nd, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
The IPL teams would be busy deciding on players whom they should buy in the coming auction. What is also important to see is how many of their current players will miss some part of the IPL due to international duties. The list features players who are certain to be in their team’s squad. Some [...]
February 1st, 2012 by Pradeep | No Comments
It’s IPL auction time. The teams would be busy preparing their wishlist. This auction is mainly to fine-tune their squads. To fill in the gaps that they have. We look at what every team needs to do at this year’s auction. Sri Lanka vs England, West indies vs Australia clashes with the IPL. Expect the teams to be extra [...]
January 30th, 2012 by Ashwin | No Comments
Final auction list of this year’s IPL auction has been released. The list includes the terminated Kochi Tuskers Kerela players. VVS Laxman, S Sreesanth, Brendon McCullum have the highest reserve price among the Kochi players. All these players will go under the hammer on February 4th. First Name Surname [...]