The Indian Premier League is an eight team Twenty20 Cricket competition which experienced its inaugural season in 2008. Before the tournament began, every IPL team was summoned to a player auction in order to form its roster for the coming season. Indian batsmen Gautam Gambhir is currently the highest paid player in the IPL, receiving a contract with the Kolkata Knight Riders worth over 1.5 million dollars a season. The IPL’s fifth season was contested in 2012 and was won by Kolkata Knight Riders, who defeated defending champions Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in the IPL final.
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Mike Hussey’s hot form continues in IPL
by AAP, 23 May 2013
Retirement from cricket’s international ranks has failed to dampen the form of Mike Hussey, who produced another match-winning display in the Indian Premier League to lift his team into Sunday’s final. Hussey scored an unbeaten 86 off 58 deliveries to guide the Chennai Super Kings to a 48-run win over Mumbai Indians on Tuesday night. [...]
IPL stars refused bail over spot fixing
by AFP, 22 May 2013
Three Indian cricket players were refused bail on Tuesday after they appeared in court on spot-fixing charges as police announced the arrest of a Bollywood actor over the scandal. A court in New Delhi agreed a five-day custody extension for former Test paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two teammates from the Rajasthan Royals who are accused [...]
Has cricket corruption been filed in the ‘too hard’ basket?
by Tim Holt, 22 May 2013
You had to laugh when realising the exposing of corruption was the only time this year’s version of the greed-inspired Indian Premier League received any semblance of coverage. Outside of this, it is the version on the game that only ever achieves the level of a WWE-scripted farce, where the hit and giggle corrupts your [...]
IPL has been ripe for the taking since its arrival
by Alec Swann, 22 May 2013
If you watched the latest Mike Hussey masterclass in the Indian Premier League semi-final and didn’t have at least the smallest suspicion that what you were witnessing was not all as it should be then well done. Because I certainly don’t fall into that category. I know that’s assuming everything is tarred with the same [...]
IPL has skeletons, whatever Warner tweets
by Kersi Meher-Homji, 20 May 2013
The arrest of three IPL players including a Test cricketer, S. Sreesanth, confirms what I have been saying for the last five years about the sham competition. The reason cricketers play IPL is for money, only money and nothing but the money. They are well-paid but still they want more. The three IPL cricketers – [...]
Warner targets media in Twitter rant
by Angela Habashy, 19 May 2013
Australian cricketer David Warner is likely to face disciplinary action from Cricket Australia (CA) after he apparently launched a scathing attack on two journalists on social media on Saturday. Warner took to Twitter to launch his expletive-laden tirade directed at News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn after taking exception to an article published [...]
CA gain Tait’s assurance over IPL scandal
by AAP, 17 May 2013
Cricket Australia have received an assurance from Australian speedster Shaun Tait that he is not involved in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal. Delhi police issued a statement on Thursday night saying Tait is not part of their ongoing investigations. Tait had been the subject of unsubstantiated rumours circulating via social media that he was [...]
Indian cricketers held for IPL spot-fixing
by AFP, 17 May 2013
Indian police said Thursday they had arrested three cricketers including Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, after they allegedly accepted tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing. Eleven bookmakers were also arrested in connection with the inquiry, said Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, as he gave details of three games in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) [...]
Johnson disappointed, hopeful of an Ashes recall
by gavjoshi, 6 May 2013
Mitchell Johnson has no hard feelings of been left out of the Ashes squad and believes he has overcome the disappointment of being dropped from the Australian squad. Johnson ripped through the top order of table toppers Chennai Super Kings in the IPL overnight and was asked if this was the best form of reply [...]
Watson best T20 player after Gayle
by Ronan O'Connell, 3 May 2013
Shane Watson’s ballistic form in the current IPL season should have reminded cricket followers he is a superstar T20 player. The Australian all-rounder in recent months has been pilloried by pundits and fans alike as a result of his poor Test form, his decision to step down as Test vice captain and his involvement in [...]
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