The final IPL squads for the third season have been announced, with the usual blend of foreign players and stars of the Indian domestic circuit.A whole bunch of form ICL players have been included this year, driving up the percentage of local players. None of them will be known by many outside India.The biggest omission is that of Rajasthan star Ravindra Jadeja, whom Shane Warne famously nicknamed...
They are part-owned by one of the most celebrated and wealthiest stars in the history or Indian cinema (who, mind, waits for the TV cameras to zoom in on him before blowing air kisses to nobody in particular - seriously, I like SRK, but that’s just really sad). They have undoubtedly the best PR machinery of all the teams in the competition. However, they are proving absolutely incompetent at...
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly will lead the Kolkata Knight Riders team in the IPL season 3. The IPL season 2 captain of KKR New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum is not available for IPL Season 3 due to national duties.
There are also reports that six New Zealand players are unavailable for IPL season 3.
The IPL Governing Council met recently and announced that only 4 players from the existing squad can be retained for IPL4. Who will these players be? The senior players like Ganguly, Dravid, Kumble might not make it back. Shane Warne, without Lalit Modi, will be a big doubt. Similarly, Adam Gilchrist, Hayden and other senior players are unlikely to continue having money being poured by the franchi...
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