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 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. …

The second edition of the T20 World Cup kicks-off on June 5th, 2009. After the inaugural T20 World Cup in South Africa in 2007, England play hosts this time round. The final, fittingly, takes place at the Mecca of cricket, Lord’s, on the 21st of June. There are 12 teams battling each other for the second T20 World Cup and the tournament follows the same format as that of the ’07 World T20 Cup. The teams are split into 4 groups of 3 each. Each team plays the others in …

The second edition of the IPL made the experts feel like fools.Whop would have thought that
two teams who were down at the bottom of the table last year would contest the finals.And fittingly,last year’s last placed team,the Deccan Chargers won a pulsating contest to claim the IPL trophy.There were speculations regarding the success of the event once shifted to South Africa but all those proved to be mere speculations and nothing else.What we witnessed was some really great cricket.Here at Three2Tango,we try to find out the highs and lows of …