Former internationals Rohan Gavaskar, Deep Dasgupta and Hemang Badani are among 101 cricketers who have severed links with the rebel Indian Cricket League and applied to the Board of Control for Cricket in India to return to the fold under the amnesty scheme that ended May 31. Seventy-nine current and 11 former Test cricketers -- including ex-captain Ajit Wadekar and off-spin legend Erapalli Prasanna -- have taken advantage of the amnesty scheme.
Six current national players are among 14 Bangladeshi cricketers who will form a new team, named Dhaka Warriors, in this year's 'rebel' Indian Cricket League, media reports in Dhaka said.
Raising a piquant situation for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, it has come to light that master batsman Sachin Tendulkar had played alongside 'rebel' player Dinesh Mongia for Lashings World XI in two matches in England in June. Tendulkar and Mongia had opened the innings for Lashings World XI against St Bede's School Headmasters XI at the school ground in Essex on June 27.
Medium pacer Thiru Kumaran bagged four wickets to help Chennai Superstars crush Mumbai Champs by nine wickets in a Twenty20 match of the ICL in Panchkula on Sunday.
The former West Indies captain fractured his left arm in a Carib Beer game when he was struck by a delivery by Lionel Baker. The injury, sustained on January 20, was expected to heal in six weeks, but the Mumbai Champs' physiotherapist, Danny Redrup, said progress had been slow.
Rahul Bhatia asks ICL Executive board member Kiran More a few basic questions.
Besides Shane Bond, the second edition of the ICL also features Damien Martyn, Adam Parore, and the big hitter Justin Kemp.
The 36-year-old, who played 21 Tests for Australia between 1996 and 2004, said would consider playing in the Indian Cricket League.
Pakistan run-machine Mohammad Yousuf signed a central contract with the PCB and will play in the first Test against South Africa.
The ICL said both joined the rebel league a week ago and signed the contracts.
The players would train under coach Balwinder Singh Sandhu, a member of the 1983 World Cup winning squad.
The Australian wicketkeeper said the Indian Cricket League might end up as a positive development for the game.
The ICC said it won't interfere at this stage as the BCCI is the competent authority to deal with the issue.
Promising 21-year-old batsman Ambatti Rayudu is among the cricketers who have reportedly aligned with the Subhash Chandra-owned Essel Group's parallel venture.
The former Pakistan captain says since he has no contract with the PCB he would like to go and play in India.
The PCB warned Inzamam saying he would not be considered for national selection if he decides to play for the breakaway Indian Cricket League.
The fourth match of the ICL 20s World Series featured the resurgent ICL India team, fresh from a fantastic victory over ICL Pakistani, take on the formidable ICL World at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday. In the end the young ICL Indian boys outclassed their illustrious opponents in all departments of the game to register their second consecutive win by 44 runs.
Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns is in an intensive care unit at a Sydney hospital after undergoing cardiovascular surgery following a major heart incident in Canberra last week.
After Bollywood legend Mithun Chakraborty, renowned Pakistani actor Moammar Rana is the second celebrity to associate with the Indian Cricket League. As per the alliance, Moammar, aka Momi will own a stake in ICL's Lahore Badshahs team and endorse and promote the team across both India and Pakistan.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board said it will consider lifting the ban on its Indian Cricket League players at its next Board meeting after India offered a similar amnesty.
India's champion batman Sachin Tendulkar was withdrawn from an exhibition match in Wellington on Friday at the eleventh hour as the Board of Control for Cricket in India objected to presence of an Indian Cricket League player in the team he was to represent. The BCCI objected to the presence of Hamish Marshall, a former New Zealand batsman who featured in the rebel ICL tournament last year, in the Kiwi side that Tendulkar was to play for.
ICL may or may not serve Indian cricket. But it can definitely serve cricketers, especially the domestic journeymen, who are good players but will never represent India for a variety of reasons, one of them being BCCI's wayward ways.
The ICC on Sunday virtually authorised the BCCI to decide on the Indian Cricket League's plea for official recognition, saying member countries would determine if a match or tournament within their territory was "approved or disapproved".
India beat Pakistan by four wickets, and with five balls to spare, at Ahmedabad on Monday night.
Ahmedabad Rockets registered an impressive victory over Chandigarh Lions on Sunday in the Indian Cricket League (ICL) 20-20 Championship at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Essel Group has confirmed its plans to set up a rival Twenty20 cricket league.
By bringing a Pakistan team-- Lahore Badshahs-- the ICL has assured the crowd would have someone to boo.
PCB vowed to provide all possible legal help to Mohammad Yousuf after an Indian arbitration panel barred him from playing in IPL.
The organisers said they were expecting Brian Lara, captain of Mumbai Champions, later this week.
The Pakistan batsman has been asked to face an arbitration hearing over his decision to pull out of the Indian Cricket League.
The Indian Cricket League's inaugural Twenty20 championship will be held in Panchkula, Chandigarh, from November 30 to December 16.
Pakistan World XI scored a nine-wicket victory over World XI in the second match of the ICL 20s World Series.
The former India captain claimed that ill-treatment is being meted out by the BCCI to players who have joined the rebel ICL.
The lucrative Indian Cricket League has been postponed to mid-November because of logistical problems, organisers said.
"An opportunity to play with some of the best players in the world" is what has made Ambati Rayudu join the Indian Cricket League.
"I am working for the betterment of my game. For me, cricket everywhere is same," said Kapil.
Abdul Razzaq, Rana Naved and Imran Nazir, banned from the national team because of their contracts with the rebel Indian Cricket League, were named in Pakistan's 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in England in June.
The Sindh high court today lifted the domestic ban on six Pakistani players who had joined the Indian Cricket League, thus clearing 17 'rebel' players to play in local tournaments. Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Humayun Farhat, Taufiq Umar, Riaz Afridi and Arshad Khan thus joined 11 other Pakistani players who got a similar reprieve from the court last week, PCB lawyer Shan Gul said.
Former India captain Kapil Dev pleaded before the Delhi high court on Friday that the Board of Control for Cricket in India be directed to release pensions due to him and other players who joined the breakaway Indian Cricket League.
The structure of the playing 11 in IPL doesn't allow the so called 'nurturing of local talent', says Raja Baradwaj.
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