Broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television and advertising agency Dentsu India seem to be headed to the courts in a dispute around the success of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008, The Economic Times today reported.
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Broadcaster Sony Entertainment Television and advertising agency Dentsu India seem to be headed to the courts in a dispute around the success of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2008, The Economic Times today reported.
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Vishnu Manchu famous for his Telugu movie Dhee today forayed into cricket with his minority percentage stake holding of the Hyderabad Heroes company of Indian Cricket League (ICL).
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Leading corporates and private equity funds such as Vedanta Resources, ICICI Ventures, DLF and Future Group are in talks with the Subhash Chandra-promoted Indian Cricket League (ICL) for an equity alliance. ICL is in the process of converting its eight teams into eight different companies and these firms are eyeing minority equity in these teams. [...]
The Pakistan Cricket Board will agree with whatever decision the Indian Premier League takes after bowler Mohammad Asif’s “B” sample test reportedly also came out positive.
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Indian Cricket League Chairman (ICL) Kapil Dev on Tuesday met top Administration officials and requested them to give the Sector 16 cricket ground for conducting some forthcoming matches of the League.
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Chennai Super Kings, the IPL team that has qualified for the Champions Twenty20 League in December, is likely to release captain MS Dhoni in the later stages of the tournament to help him prepare for India’s Test series against England, a top franchise official has said.
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/t20champions/content/story/365488.html
England have warned India’s Champions League powerbrokers that they will not go the same way as Australia and South Africa, by allowing Test cricket to be compromised in the rush for Twenty20 riches. The inaugural eight-team tournament, featuring Twenty20 Cup champions Middlesex, has been shifted from October to early December in order to avoid a [...]
The credibility of Test cricket took another blow when the biggest series of the coming winter – the de facto world championship bout between Australia and South Africa – was shifted to make room for a money-spinning Twenty20 tournament.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/australia/
2560636/Twenty20-deals-blow-to-Australia-v-South-Africa-Test-series—Cricket.html
England are fighting an increasingly lonely battle to protect the status of Test cricket against the onward march of Twenty20 after Australia and South Africa bowed yesterday to Indian pressure to reschedule the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League from September to December.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/aug/15/twenty20.englandcricketteam