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Thursday, March 27, 2008

BCCI invokes spirit of Cricket at Indian Premier League

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Don't be surprised if you see Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds being far more respectful to each other during the forthcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) than they were in Australia.

Bhajji and Symmo haven't struck up a sudden friendship. But they will have no choice but to behave because the BCCI has taken the business of sledging to heart. It has invoked the Spirit of Cricket for the IPL.

The Spirit of Cricket is the doctrine enshrined by Sir Colin Cowdrey and Lord Ted Dextel: ex-England skippers and MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) members, in the 1990s in the laws of the game.

The Indian cricket board, campaigning for the eradication of sledging and abusive player behaviour, will ask the players to take a spoken oath that will bind them to playing by the spirit of the game and not just its laws.

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

CROREPATHI CRICKETERS

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M.S. DHONI'S getting top billing was hardly surprising, but the price for which he sold - Rs 6 crore - certainly triggered murmurs. On a frenzied, dramatic day of cricket's first-ever auction, something Shah Rukh Khan called "addictive", the goldrush for players just wouldn't stop.

Even computer glitches at the start could not prevent this from becoming what Vijay Mallya dubbed "the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket".

Andrew Symonds, subjected to monkey chants on his last tour to India and involved in a protracted episode over alleged racist abuse by Harbhajan Singh recently found that India's IPL franchisees at least, had no problems with him. Hyderabad doled out $1.35 million (Rs 5.4 crore) to buy him. And Sanath Jayasuriya, dismissed by many as over-the hill at 38, rang in at third place with Reliance's Mumbai giving $975,000 (Rs 3.9 crore) for him.

While the some of these numbers were indeed staggering, the real surprise lay not in how costly some players were, but how others turned out to be a steal at the end of the day.

Ten players remained unsold through the eight regular rounds of auctioning - two of them, South African Loots Bosman and Australian Michael Hussey went for higher than their base price in the re-auction. Mohammad Yousuf and Ashwell Prince were withdrawn, for legal reasons and lack of demand respectively .

The IPL announced that the remaining six, Glenn McGrath, Simon Katich, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Justin Langer and Tatenda Taibu were sold for



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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

On sale today: 77 stars, for $40 million

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ON WEDNESDAY, a Bollywood badshah and several captains of industry will be among those bidding hundreds of thousands of dollars for the services of 77 star cricketers in a sporting auction never seen before in India.

Auctions for eight Indian Premier League T20 teams will be held at a Mumbai five-star for 12 hours starting 11 am. Five players accorded "icon" status will not be auctioned. They will get 15 per cent more than the highest-priced player in their team. The icons are: Sachin Tendulkar (Mumbai), Souray Ganguly (Kolkata), Rahul Dravid (Bangalore), Yuvraj Singh (Chandigarh) and Virender Sehwag (Delhi). Viru joined the elite group on Tuesday after all IPL franchisees agreed to Delhi team-owner GMR's request that he be made their icon.

The auction will be conducted by English auctioneer Richard Madley behind closed doors at the Hilton Towers in Nariman Point. No one apart from icons Dravid and Ganguly (the rest are in Australia) will be allowed in. Franchisees can spend up to $5 million on their buys. Players will be contracted for three years. Based on the lines of the NBA draft, the players have been divided into eight batches for the auction. Lots A, B, C and D are made up of top-rung players. Set E has wicketkeepers, F al1rounders, G batsmen, and H bowlers. There are 25 Indians,

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