IPL‘s overlapping with elections have stirred mixed response between various political parties of our country. Ministry of Home and Affairs (MHA) had strictly all state governments not to give security assurance, unless they can manage the security by themselves. It’s a well known fact that not long before, Union Minister M.K. Chidambaram, addressed the press [...]

Around 260 members’ names have been given in total by eight franchises. Even though government hasn’t even given consent for staging of IPL, franchise are very confident and they have given the list of players in each respective teams, who would decorate their fame in this season of IPL. Kolkata Knight Riders is the team [...]

V. B Chandrasekar, former Indian selector is donning the role of Director of Operations of team Chennai Super kings (CSK). He was part of CSK huge success in 1st edition along with Kris Srikkanth for their impressive brains behind team selection. In a recent interview to a leading newspaper, he said that, IPL 2nd edition [...]

IPL has proved to be a golden platform for Indian domestic players to gain fame Before last year April 2008, the names like Ravindra Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan, Amit Mishra , Prajahan Ojha were not fully known even in their own Ranjy Throphy circles, despite their consistent performance. After IPL storm, they are not just in [...]

It was exactly a year back; Bangalore Royal Challengers (BRC) was mocked as a test team in a T 20 jersey. The results of their first season justified the comments made at the team. Story is lot more different this year, with team owner Vijay Mallya calling the shots. Right from coach Ray Jennings to [...]

Central government ask IPL authorities to work on rescheduled dates further. IPL board gave the rescheduled dates to government authorities, to get consent for tournament, but amicable consent hasn’t been arrived yet. Government has asked the IPL officials to rework on the schedule yesterday in a meeting. Indian government home security official Maudugar Gupta had [...]

Overlapping of Lok – Sabha elections and other security issues have lead to no other choice for IPL authorities, but to cancel the previously announced schedule. This has not led just to change in schedule of matches, but increase in tournament venues to accommodate adequate security for the smooth functioning of the tournament. The concept [...]

IPL 2nd edition has faced many impediments, even before a commencement of single match. Many people wrote off IPL, stating that it can’t relish during times of recession, others doubted the possibility of IPL with issues like elections and security to be addressed. But after the recent press conference by IPL chairman, one can be [...]

Players association of countries like South Africa, New Zealand and Australia have joined their  other counterparts Srilanka and England in voicing their opinion against IPL authorities who have refused to involve their countries respective players association for planning and looking after the security of IPL. IPL chairman Lalith Modi has announced that they would not [...]

IPL has all ingredients to make a Hollywood pot – boiler, with both its on – field and off – field activities. With exactly around one month to go, franchise of IPL has sprung into life through various innovative activities like fan base, cheerleaders’ contests and merchandising to generate money as well as branding. Concept [...]