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Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, has insisted the US$5 million salary cap on franchisees will remain in place for at least the next two years. Modi said in a statement that the players are legally bound by their three-year contract with franchises.
“The three-year contractual clause was made public to both the franchisees and players prior [...]

The ICC has taken the first significant step towards resolving the contentious issue of unauthorised cricket - including the status of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) - by setting up a high-powered committee to study its legal aspects. It has also discussed the issue of global agreements to prevent cricketers from appearing in such games, [...]

IPL chief commissioner Lalit Modi put to rest the speculation of a second IPL this year during his speech at a packed DY Patil Stadium on Sunday night.
Modi said the IPL had caught the imagination of millions of people, both at the venues and on television. He said they were looking forward to the tournament [...]

Pakistan selectors have named senior batsman Muhammad Yousuf in their 16-man squad for a triangular One-day series in Bangladesh from June 8.
India and Bangladesh are the other teams in the competition, which ends on June 14.
Shoaib Malik (Capt),
Salman Butt,
Nasir Jamshed,
Younis Khan,
Muhammad Yousuf,
Misbah-ul-Haq,
Shahid Afridi,
Kamran Akmal,
Muhammad Asif,
Umar Gul,
Sohail Tanvir,
Rao Iftkhar,
Wahab Riaz,
Nomanullah,
Fawad Alam,
Bazid Khan.

SHANE WARNE has moved to the top of the Indian Premier League wicket-taking charts, claiming three scalps to guide the Rajasthan Royals to a 65-run win over Bangalore in Jaipur.
The legendary Australian leg-spinner’s 3-23 off four overs took his tally to 14 wickets in 10 matches, while helping restrict Bangalore to 9-132 off 20 overs [...]

Middle-order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan will lead the West Indies against Australia in the first Test at Sabina Park, Jamaica from May 22 to 26.
Dwayne Bravo was named vice-captain when the squad was announced by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on Friday.
Chris Gayle, who led the team in the home series against Sri Lanka in [...]

England’s flamboyant batsman Kevin Pietersen expects to be playing in India next year, and is close to signing the most lucrative deal yet witnessed in the Indian Premier League, after being tendered more than $4million for a three-year contract by an undisclosed IPL franchise.
According to a report in Daily Mail, the deal has been financed [...]

In an era when we read about corporate scandals–including former reputable bank managers, highly respectable pastors and trustworthy politicians– cricket has established a Mount Olympus of virtue: a list of elite umpires in a mythical tower of infallibility. The last time I checked the list of Popes, from their inception by the Cardinal of Bishops [...]

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is becoming exotic by the day, by the hour and by the minute. As Noam Chomsky has been termed as ‘arguably the most controversial intellectual on earth’ the IPL can also be termed as ‘arguably the most controversial cricket show on earth’.
Yes, cricket seems to be an integral part of [...]