With an eye to the next year’s players’ auction, the eight teams that participated in the last three season of the Indian Premier League retained only 12 players altogether. The deadline to retain four ‘marquee’ players by various franchisees ended on Wednesday night and only Mumbai Indians & Chennai Super Kings retained four players each, [...]
The talk in IPL circles is not just about the future of Team Kochi or about the appeals filed by Rajasthan Royals & Kings XI Punjab. There is a strong buzz over the retention of players. More precisely, who’s staying where. It is more or less confirmed that Sourav Ganguly will no longer be part [...]
Murali Vijay and Mike Hussey cracked sparkling half-centuries each as Chennai Super Kings were crowned the Champions League Twenty20 winners after an eight-wicket victory over Warriors in Johannesburg on Sunday. Vijay (58 off 53 balls), who was let off when on 34, hit his third half-century of the tournament while the other opener, Hussey, played [...]
