Now that’s what’s called the……….
” Chappell” Effect….
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The great Indian summer blockbuster has ended with a nail biting climax.
In many ways, Sunday night’s final of the Indian Premier League (IPL), cricket’s most expensive and hyped carnival, mirrored vintage Bollywood fare.
An unfancied, cut price team (Rajasthan), led by an ageing, semi-retired spin bowling wizard (Shane Warne), beat a pricey, aggressive rival [...]
What it doesCricket is big business in India and arguably the most popular sport in the country. The recently launched Indian Premiere League (IPL), is growing rapidly in popularity and it now has its own social network where fans can meet and share their love of the sport. The interface of TheIPLFanClub is familiar to [...]
India: Two British dancers have been left in tears after a racial snub before an Indian Premier League Twenty20 match. Sherinne Anderson and Ellesha Newton were prevented from performing by an official because of their skin colour."An organiser pulled us away. He said the people here don’t want to see dark people. The n****r word was used and they said they only wanted beautiful white girls... I
Members of the Indian cricket team enjoy a ride in the Sumo Grande awarded to Harbhajan Singh for being the Man of the Series, after the third Test match against South Africa at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on April 13.India won the test and squared the series.
The rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) have unveiled a three-team tournament involving sides representing India, Pakistan and the rest of the world to begin later this month.ICL's ongoing eight-team Edelweiss 20s Challenge, which has been overshadowed by the billion-dollar Indian Premier League, will end on Monday and their new event, 20s World Series, is scheduled to begin on April 9.Explaining the new format, Kapil Dev, ICL chairman said: "Throughout the Edelweiss 20s Challenge, we saw our boys come out with stand-out performances, which shaped the results of some high-standard cricket matches."With ICL World Series 2008, our promising domestic boys will face the toughest challenge of proving their credentials against two of the mightiest teams in the world."These Indian players will be s
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India's cricket board hopes to keep offensive language and rude gestures out of the Indian Premier League by having the eight team captains take a pledge to abide by the "spirit of cricket". The BCCI, which is also campaigning for a ban on sledging, hopes to avoid the same kind of unsavoury incidents that marred their tour of Australia."We (India) are the first to adopt the spirit of cricket," IPL governing council member Inderjit Bindra told Thursday's Hindustan Times."And to ensure players abide by it, the captains of all eight teams in the IPL will take a pledge to play by the spirit of the game before the tournament gets rolling."A preamble on the spirit of cricket was formally added to the laws of the game at the turn of the century on how it should be played and viewed both on and of
Over the years, Indian cricket has seen its own share of highs and lows. If winning the world cup in 1983 was a high then being knocked out in the first round of the 2007 world cup was definitely the lowest point in Indian cricket. Quiz any India cricket fan on this and you will come up with a unanimous answer, this definitely was the lowest point of India cricket. Cricket is definitely not as popular as football, but in countries where the game is played, it is huge. In fact in India cricketers are worshipped like gods and all the players have a cult status. Ask an India cricketer and he will tell you how difficult it is just to step out of his house. Just because there is so much passion for the game, it can work out both in a positive and in negative ways as well. If one follows the his
India is known as a country that finds unity in diversity. It is an accumulation of varied beliefs and culture where people following different religions and faith come together in the spirit of unity. One such binding religion and faith in India is the game of cricket. Indian cricket has evolved far beyond the gentlemens game to create a place for itself in the hearts of millions of fans. However, in India it is a different ball game altogether. The cricketers have achieved the status of idols, which can be praised when performing well or rebuked after a dismal performance. Much of our waking life is guided by the schedule of a live cricket match. If there is match between India and a popular opponent then chances are that the roads will be empty and the schools and offices will have an u
Edelweiss 20s Challenge Forecast 2008 - Indian Cricket League Forecast 2008Lahore Badshahs vs Mumbai Champs at Panchkula - March 21, 2008Twenty20 Forecast 2008Mumbai Champs may win TOSSPrediction : Mumbai Champs may win this match.
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Indian Cricket League (ICL) bought cricketers from around the world last year and played them in India in a 20-20 tournament. Now cricketers get enough money to play in ICL. Inaugural tournament of 2007 saw Chennai Superstars lifting the trophy by winning over Chandigarh Lions.ICL in its second year, starts today, with 8 teams and players from all over the world. All the teams have their owners and all the players have a price too. ICL had its last tournament in December 2007 and now after 3 months, it has started again. Lets see what response it gets from media and public this time around specially when Indian cricket is in high spirits after winning the under 19 world cup and a win over world champions Australia on their soil.After India's win in 20-20 world cup in 2007, this format of
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CRICKET in India at BID. BCCI has made the Indian Cricket, it's Private Property. Now only Money play the game not Cricketer.After the BID of most awaited IPL so called Indian Premier League, One can imagine the power of money in this game. After the Bid I came to know that the winner of various cities team are not at all related to Cricket. Big Name of Indian Corporate, Businesses and Film Stares are the owner of Teams. What is their lust with Cricket.Let me tell you corporate houses only Bid for such thing where they see money and Cricket is the new market for them. They have nearly put about Rs 6,996,00,00,000 together.Surprisly Winner Indian Cement is run by Srinivasan who is an office bearer of BCCI.Naturally they would try to pull atleast double of money from this game. They will ma
The newly started indian premier league by the BCCI started the bidding process.Sharukhan the bollywood actor bidded for the kolkotta team and won his bid.Vijay mallaya also bidded.The ipl is a new thing which will give profit to the corporates
Indian Cricket Team is celebrating after the fall of Wicket which has been tooked by Suresh Shreesanth, all the fielder are congragulating the bowler Shreesanth but unfortunately some one got his hand on Shreesanth p***s and it has been captured in the camera. But i am confused who is the guy who is catching his p***s rather then the ball, please let me know the name of that fielder.
The leading Indian Telco Spice launched its own version of TV on Mobile Phones (Like recently state owned Telco BSNL launched its). Spice is offering now 13 channels and it includes live telecast of Indian Cricket League (ICL) matches. Indians are crazy for TV, Mobile Phone and Cricket and Spice Telecom is rightly trying to tap and encash this market among Indians!The Mobile TV channels are: News channels viz. CNN-IBN, NDTV entertainment channels: Bindas and Zoom also kids Cartoon Network. This service is free for one month since its launch and after that it may be nominally tagged! India is getting ahead in Mobile users (one of the fastest growing nations re: mobile density) and its getting best and the world class services on Mobile handsets now, Mobile TV is still a new worldwide VAS / segment and in India now BSNL and Spice Network are providing Live streaming TV on mobile, its wonderful, future is promising! Mobile Videos on demand too is coming with Hungama Mobile here, I will wr
Zee launched its rebel Indian Cricket league today with a $4million prize money but what has been interesting is the marketing muscle behind it. The creativity behind the promotion of each side and the ads they have created for each of the side is a treat to watch. They have their own channel on Youtube and all the ads are available there and are quite creative but the best one is definitely for Chennai Superstars it has already garnered 25000 views within a week of being posted on Youtube and really connects here it is do take a look
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Irrespective of the national team’s performance, the Indian cricket board is getting rich each year and its current total assets stand at a whopping Rs.9.6 billion ($245 million; 120.6 million pounds), thanks largely to its marketing policy and investments by sponsors.
In addition, the Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) has made investments worth nearly Rs.7.5 billion ($190 million; 93.5 million pounds) and its ‘current assets, loans and advances’ stand at almost Rs.2.1 billion ($53 million; 26.2 million pounds), as per its 2006-2007 annual report, a copy of which is with IANS.
Out of its total assets of Rs.9.6 billion, the board has ‘fixed assets’ of Rs.71 million ($1.8 million; 891,268 pounds) at the end of the 2006-2007 fiscal year. The worth of the fixed assets has shot up from Rs.16.3 million ($416,007; 204,657 pounds) during the previous fiscal year.
BCCI’s marketing committee, headed by vice president Lalit Modi,
After an unexpected Win for many Indian fans and Cricket Pundits, Indian team finally laded at Mumbai Airport this morning with lots of joy & enjoyment. The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team won the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship at the New Wanderers in Johannesburg on Monday defeating Pakistan by five runs. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has lined up a victory march for the
Geoffery Boycott gave a detailed account of where India lost the third ODI against England at Egbaston and how 'Team India' can come back in the seven match series. On India's decision to bat second at Egbaston, Boycott said "I think it would have been better for India to bat first. I have always been a believer that India play better when they bat first. I think they are not as good chasing as
We're a nation of a billion people, and yes the count will increase by another 1,000 before I compete this sentence. At any point in time, only 20 or so cricketers get to represent the country. If you take the India A team into consideration, you're probably talking about 50 players who get to wear the "hallowed blue". From the dirt roads of Chennai to the maidans in Mumbai, anyone and everyone that has access to a bat and ball can play this game, which to most is a religion these days.Tennis, basketball, field athletics and the like are still light years behind in terms of acceptance from the general public. At a higher level, even when it comes to organized cricket, the examples of players coming through the ranks to represent the country are few and far between. Almost everyone that has donned the national colors has been a prodigy, be it Kapil, Sachin, Yuvraj Singh, etc. For every success story, there are a million stories of doors being closed on talented young players due to re
After beating England in the Test Series Indian cricket team is flying high on color and they are ready to take the battle against the England cricket team. India will play seven ODI match against England Cricket team, three of which is Day/Night. First match of the series will start from Tuesday 21st August 2007 which will be day/night encounter.Last time when Indians were here they have beaten
After beating England in the Test Series Indian cricket team is flying high on color and they are ready to take the battle against the England cricket team. India will play seven ODI match against England Cricket team, three of which is Day/Night. First match of the series will start from Tuesday 21st August 2007 which will be day/night encounter.Last time when Indians were here they have beaten
India will play three test match against England Cricket team including seven ODI cricket match, three of which is Day/Night. Indian cricket team also play two practice match against Sussex and England Lions prior to first test match against England Which begins from July 19th. Indian Cricket Team in England Type Date First Team Second Team Venue Test Match 19 Jul – 23 Jul 2007 India England Lords Test Match 27 Jul – 31 Jul 2007 India England Trent Bridge Test match 09 Aug – 13 Aug India England Oval ODI 16 Aug 2007 India Scotland Hamilton Crescent ODI (D/N) 21 Aug 2007 India England The RoseBowl ODI 24 Aug 2007 India England Edgbaston ODI (D/N) 30 Au
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any sport win or loss is normal part and parcel of it. The matter is not that why
India lost against Bangaladesh or Sri Lanka in the World Cup 2007, the matter is totally
different. Its the matter of player's attitude and the management of BCCI. I was trying
to resist myself from writing this article but could not stop myself.
Biggest
annoyance I feel is that politicians like pawar lead the cricket board of India. Because
of his private rivalry with Dalmiya he slashed all the supporters who where with Dalmiya.
Saurav was thrown out of team and removed from captainship as he was Dalmiya's favourite.
One question that keeps on hitting my mind is what knowledge does Pawar has of cricket.
Second wierd thing about board is the zonal selection team. Players are selected based
on the region they belong to instead of their ability. We have seen players selected
based on selector's and capatain's biases. Laxman was dropped from world cup squad
Mumbai, April 7 (IANS) The Indian cricket board Saturday came down heavily on players following the World Cup disaster, restricting their income from advertisements, and announcing that the national selection committees would be reconstituted with “full-time” selectors from next year.
Following its working committee meeting, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced a series of measures curtailing players’ income from the game, including the decision to scrap their graded payment system, while retaining a basic retainership amount. The details are to be worked out.
“It has been decided to scrap the present zonal representation in the senior and junior selection committees. The BCCI will appoint the selectors on a full-time basis based upon the eligibility criteria that would include the stature as players, selection experience etc.,” said BCCI treasurer N. Srinivasan at a packed press conference at the BCCI headquarters at the Wankhede St
Advertisers and sponsors are a worried lot over the early exit of India from the World Cup. However, there is some positive news on the economy front on account of Team India`s early exit. Here`s how our cricketers have helped the Indian economy. Statistics show that there are about 80 million cable and satellite viewing homes in our country. The average viewership of all the World Cup matches currently stands at about 3 per cent, with the India-Bangladesh encounter touching a 7.25 per cent. India would have played a minimum of seven matches to reach the finals. At least 5.8 million people would have watched the matches, resulting in a productivity loss of 371.2 million man hours (5.8 million x 8 hours x 8 matches). In addition, there are other stress-resulted issues such as preparing for examinations for the students in due to take their public exams coming in April.Nearly 3% of 80 million TV viewers (2.4 million) are ardent cricket fans and they would have watched (entire 8 hours)
Indian cricket team for the world cup has been announced yesterday in wankhede Stadium,Mumbai. The squad is Rahul Dravid (C), Robin Uthappa,Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Karthik,Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK), Harbhajan Singh, S Sreesanth, Anil Kumble, Munaf Patel, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Yuvraj Singh and Ajit Agarkar. The players will assemble in Mumbai on February 26 and leave for the West Indies on February 28Technorati Tags:cricket, sportsAdd to: | Technorati | del.icio.us | Yahoo | BlinkList |
It did not take long for coach Greg Chappell to slump forward in his chair, hands locked together, supporting the weight of a thousand thoughts. His team was on the verge of its sixth straight defeat, its second series loss in six months, the tricolour lying trampled and limp somewhere on the highway to the World Cup. One block away, South African batting great Barry Richards was reaching for the coffee, shaking his head as former home skipper Kepler Wessels walked in. "No, No," said Richards to Wessels, who replied with a wry smile. Even they had wanted India to put up a fight at the Centurion. Hoo Haa India? By the end of it all, the Blue Billion had given it their own spin: "Hai Hai India" Indian Express, 03 December 2006
