The IPL3 has moved into it’s half-way stage, and one can only say that the circus has been more successful than it’s previous two editions. There has been more and more money pouring in, to the extend that the revenue generated by the IPL is second only to the NBA league in the America. But, bear in mind that the NBA goes on for a good part of the year, whereas the IPL only has a two month window at the max.Talking about cricket, the action on the field has …

For the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League to be held in 2011, two new teams are to join the flock. Kochi and Pune. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was snapped up by Rendezvous Sports World Limited for $333.3 million. “They made the highest bid for all three cities and were asked to chose one of those cities. So Pune will be the home ground of their team,” Modi told reporters. “There were five qualified bids and the bidding …

The player auctions for the IPL 2010 took place on January 19th. Kieron Pollard and Shane Bond were the biggest buys at the third IPL auction in Mumbai, each fetching the maximum possible bid of $750,000. However, the biggest surprise was the fact that not a single Pakistan player was signed up by any of the franchises. There was not even one bid for any of the Pakistani players, which is quite surprising considering the fact that they are the current T20 world champions. The overlooked Paki players included some …

The uber-popular T20 cricket tournament has won one more exclusive rights deal. This time its with the internet giant Google. For the IPL-3 starting in two months time, all the matches would be broadcast live on the internet, through YouTube. Under the terms of the agreement Google will have the exclusive online rights for IPL contents and the two bodies would share revenues from sponsorships and advertising. This is also the first major live sporting deal for YouTube, and it comes as a surprise that it’s cricket which gets live-streamed …

The 2009 edition of the T20 World Cup reached its conclusion, and this editions winner is Pakistan. Being 2007 World Cup’s
runners-up, Pakistan are desrerved winners this year having peaked at the right time in the competition. Once again, it was
proven that teams from the sub-continent dominate world cricket, in the shortest format of the game. The final was again a
showdown between two Asian super-powers – Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Cricketers in the Indian sub-continent are brought-up with
a healthy dose of ‘gully cricket’ and for them, T20 cricket needs no adaptation. …