BCCI must permit Pakistanis to play IPL: Afridi

BCCI must permit Pakistanis to play IPL: Shahid Afridi

Captain of Pakistan team, Shahid Afridi talking to an India News Agency, has appealed the Indian Cricket Board to give permission to Pakistani players of playing Indian Premier League (IPL). He said that as now the relations between two countries are improving so players of Pakistan must be given a chance to play IPL.

The proof of improving bilateral relations is the semi-final match of World cup 2011, between India and Pakistan, seen by Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani and his Indian counter part Manmohan Singh together. Manmohan Singh invited Pakistani P.M to see the Indo-Pak semi-final of in Mohali last month.

“It is high time the Pakistani cricketers also get a place in the IPL. For three seasons, including the current one, we haven’t been a part of the IPL. We have no problems playing in India as we have just played a World Cup semi-final there,” Afridi said.

It is to be rememberd that this is the successive third year, since green shirts are not permitted to participate in the biggest T20 tournament.

Shahid Afridi says, IPL could be a great platform for youngsters

Shahid Afridi said hoped that IPL can be great platform for the youngsters to show their abilities.
“I am not saying I want to play the IPL but it could be a great platform for youngsters. They could make a mark for themselves,” he said.

IPL can ease tensions between both countries: Shahid Afridi

Shahid Afridi declared the inclusion of Pakistani players in IPL as the measure for reducing the tensions between two countries:
“Our PM responded positively to that invitation. Now IPL can be a platform to further ease the tension,” he added, “We should play more against each other. This will not only ease the pressure but will also reduce the unwanted media hype surrounded with Indo-Pak matches,” Shahid Afridi said.

PM Gilani to visit India for Mohali semi-final

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will go to India to watch first semi-final of ICC World Cup being played between the teams of Pakistan and India on March 30.

According to Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar, PM Gilani held two-hour meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari and it was decided in the meeting that PM Gilani will go to India to watch Pakistan-India semi-final to be played in Mohali on March 30.

It should be mentioned here that Indian Premier Manmohan Singh invited President Zardari and PM Gilani to come over to watch ICC World Cup’s first semi-final between the teams of the two countries.

PM Gilani will not only watch the much-awaited match but also have a meeting with Indian Premier Manmohan Singh.

Farhatullah Babar confirmed that the visit was decided during a meeting between the two leaders.

The government of Pakistan will formally inform the Indian government about the visit of PM Gilani. TrendPK

Indian interest in new Aussie T20 series – report

MUMBAI: Indian investors are poised to grab a share of Australia’s revamped Twenty20 competition in the biggest shake-up since Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, newspapers said on Thursday.

Cricket Australia will decide this week whether to accept private equity from Indian and other overseas investors as part of the ownership of Australian teams, reports said.

The Daily Telegraph said two of Australia’s most powerful cricket states, New South Wales and Victoria, have already sold shares to giant Indian corporations for around 60 million dollars (59 million US).

It said the outlays are in return for anticipated profits from an Indian Premier League-style eight-team tournament, mooted to start in Australia in January 2012.

Sources told The Daily Telegraph and The Australian that the new T20 series could even surpass late media mogul Packer’s

Indian interest in new Aussie T20 series – report

MUMBAI: Indian investors are poised to grab a share of Australia’s revamped Twenty20 competition in the biggest shake-up since Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, newspapers said on Thursday.

Cricket Australia will decide this week whether to accept private equity from Indian and other overseas investors as part of the ownership of Australian teams, reports said.

The Daily Telegraph said two of Australia’s most powerful cricket states, New South Wales and Victoria, have already sold shares to giant Indian corporations for around 60 million dollars (59 million US).

It said the outlays are in return for anticipated profits from an Indian Premier League-style eight-team tournament, mooted to start in Australia in January 2012.

Sources told The Daily Telegraph and The Australian that the new T20 series could even surpass late media mogul Packer’s

Former high-flying UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor weds

NEW DELHI: Former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor married girlfriend Sunanda Pushkar Sunday, months after the couple were the focus of a cricket team ownership scandal that saw him quit the Indian government.

The couple were married in the presence of close relatives in Tharoor’s ancestral home in the southern state of Kerala, a witness said.

The suave, debonair Tharoor, who spent almost three decades in the United Nations before quitting in 2007, was elected to the Indian parliament in 2009.

He was made junior foreign minister but had served barely a year before he was forced to resign over revelations that Pushkar had been given a free stake in a new Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise.

Tharoor helped put together the consortium that bought the team in Kerala, and opposition politicians suggested the free stake was a kickback for his

Preity Zinta slams arrest warrant reports

MUMBAI: Lately it was reported that a Chandigarh court issued arrest warrants against Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kings XI Punjab’s co-owners actress Preity Zinta and industrialists Ness Wadia and Mohit Burman for failing to appear before it on a complaint accusing them of not filing its balance sheets and annual returns.

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India cricket board launches IPL inquiry

MUMBAI: India’s cricket board has named a new committee to carry out a formal investigation into charges against suspended Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi, who faces allegations of financial irregularities.

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India rest Tendulkar, drop Yuvraj for Asia Cup

NEW DELHI: India”s cricket chiefs on Monday allowed veteran Sachin Tendulkar to skip the upcoming Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, while Yuvraj Singh was dropped from the 15-man squad.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni will captain India in the four-nation limited-overs tournament against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, in Dambulla from June 15 to 24.

Tendulkar, 37, has not played for India since February 24, when he hit an unprecedented double-century in a one-day international against South Africa in Gwalior.

The world”s most prolific Test and one-day batsman turned out for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in March-April, before being rested for a tri-series in Zimbabwe also featuring Sri Lanka.

“Tendulkar requested the board not to consider him for the Asia Cup as he wanted to spend time with his children in view of the hectic cricket season ahead,” BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said in a statement.

Left-hander Yuvraj was axed after scoring just 74 runs in five matches in the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean in April-May, where India failed to make the semi-finals.

In five one-day internationals this year, Yuvraj has managed only 96 runs, 74 of them coming in one match against Sri Lanka in Dhaka.

Six players who were rested for the Zimbabwe tri-series — Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra — are back for the Asia Cup.

The second-string Indian team did not qualify for the final in Zimbabwe after losing twice to the hosts and once to Sri Lanka.

Attacking left-hand batsman Saurabh Tiwary, 20, who plays for Mumbai Indians in the IPL, is the only new face in the squad.

Indian squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha, Ashok Dinda, Ravichandran Ashwin, Saurabh Tiwary.

India rest Tendulkar, drop Yuvraj for Asia Cup

NEW DELHI: India”s cricket chiefs on Monday allowed veteran Sachin Tendulkar to skip the upcoming Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, while Yuvraj Singh was dropped from the 15-man squad.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni will captain India in the four-nation limited-overs tournament against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, in Dambulla from June 15 to 24.

Tendulkar, 37, has not played for India since February 24, when he hit an unprecedented double-century in a one-day international against South Africa in Gwalior.

The world”s most prolific Test and one-day batsman turned out for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in March-April, before being rested for a tri-series in Zimbabwe also featuring Sri Lanka.

“Tendulkar requested the board not to consider him for the Asia Cup as he wanted to spend time with his children in view of the hectic cricket season ahead,” BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said in a statement.

Left-hander Yuvraj was axed after scoring just 74 runs in five matches in the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean in April-May, where India failed to make the semi-finals.

In five one-day internationals this year, Yuvraj has managed only 96 runs, 74 of them coming in one match against Sri Lanka in Dhaka.

Six players who were rested for the Zimbabwe tri-series — Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra — are back for the Asia Cup.

The second-string Indian team did not qualify for the final in Zimbabwe after losing twice to the hosts and once to Sri Lanka.

Attacking left-hand batsman Saurabh Tiwary, 20, who plays for Mumbai Indians in the IPL, is the only new face in the squad.

Indian squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha, Ashok Dinda, Ravichandran Ashwin, Saurabh Tiwary.

India rest Tendulkar, drop Yuvraj for Asia Cup

NEW DELHI: India”s cricket chiefs on Monday allowed veteran Sachin Tendulkar to skip the upcoming Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, while Yuvraj Singh was dropped from the 15-man squad.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni will captain India in the four-nation limited-overs tournament against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, in Dambulla from June 15 to 24.

Tendulkar, 37, has not played for India since February 24, when he hit an unprecedented double-century in a one-day international against South Africa in Gwalior.

The world”s most prolific Test and one-day batsman turned out for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in March-April, before being rested for a tri-series in Zimbabwe also featuring Sri Lanka.

“Tendulkar requested the board not to consider him for the Asia Cup as he wanted to spend time with his children in view of the hectic cricket season ahead,” BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said in a statement.

Left-hander Yuvraj was axed after scoring just 74 runs in five matches in the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean in April-May, where India failed to make the semi-finals.

In five one-day internationals this year, Yuvraj has managed only 96 runs, 74 of them coming in one match against Sri Lanka in Dhaka.

Six players who were rested for the Zimbabwe tri-series — Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra — are back for the Asia Cup.

The second-string Indian team did not qualify for the final in Zimbabwe after losing twice to the hosts and once to Sri Lanka.

Attacking left-hand batsman Saurabh Tiwary, 20, who plays for Mumbai Indians in the IPL, is the only new face in the squad.

Indian squad:
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha, Ashok Dinda, Ravichandran Ashwin, Saurabh Tiwary.

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