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All International cricket players and cricket board should ban Indian Premier League (IPL). It is a shameful decision of not including the Pakistani players through shameful act of pressurizing the team management to not bid for the T20 specialists Pakistani players. The politics should be away from cricket as cricket is game for peace and love.

This is a time for international players association to act and save the prestige of cricketers and pride of the game. It is really shameful when the cricket fans are being stopped to watch the great display from the current great T20 players. The cricketers have country stamp but not the cricket. It should be carry on without prejudice.

Today it is happening to Pakistan and in future it can happen to other players too. Indian cricket board has members whose thinking is based on racism and hatred while sports does not allow such act because sports present not the nations only rather humanity too.

Recently there were some people in India who were trying to threat Australian players to stop them of taking part in IPL. Instead of banning and threatening the cricketers the cricket should be free of any negative acts. The board of Indian cricket should think again to re auction the players and give a relief to cricket fans.

On the other hand the association of cricketers should take necessary steps to avoid such happening in future to make sure cricket available for all.

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IPL and BCCI foundations said that BCCI president Shashank Manohar wills appraisal the matter and at hand his statement and suggestions to the BCCI’s working commission on September 24.

The decision was taken to end the chasm between two powerful BCCI officials - Lalit Modi and N Srinivasan.

The BCCI’s decision to terminate the services of the IMG from IPL was seen as an attempt to clip Modi’s wings.

But with seven IPL franchises and even the former BCCI president Sharad Pawar throwing their weight behind Modi, the IPL Governing Council met here on Wednesday and took the decision to take the matter before the BCCI Working Committee.

Earlier, a ‘disturbed’ Pawar reportedly snubbed Srinivasan and expressed his disappointment in no uncertain terms in a letter addressed to Manohar.

”When I was the board president, we signed a 10-year agreement with IMG to conceptualise, formulate and implement a new league along with Lalit Modi and the same was approved at all appropriate levels,” he stated.

”IMG has been instrumental in day-to-day operations of the league and we should come to a suitable arrangement (with IMG). In IPL, there are many stakeholders and anything we do that may jeopardize their investments will show BCCI in a bad light. With the overwhelming success of the IPL, it is our duty to protect not only BCCI but also all its stakeholders,” Pawar said.

Srinivasan, the BCCI secretary, is of the outlook that the IMG has been fleece the BCCI, and therefore, its services should be completed.

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The Australian coach who was in charge of Kolkata knight riders has been sacked by the officials of the team. Although he is having 3 years contract but hs services no longer needs the team. Kolkata Knight rider is own by film star Shahrukh Khan. When the team officials were contacted about this news, they refused to reveal any development.

Buchanan served the team for two sessions. Both the sessions were horrible dream for the team. In the recent IPL event team finished at the bottom. The new names which may take Buchanan is Whatmore.

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Morgan was there in Johannesburg as officials from the rebel ICL, the ICC and the Board of Control for Cricket in India tried to thrash out a deal.

ICL chiefs are keen to acquire ‘unofficial cricket’ status - a new idea introduced by the ICC for tournaments which are not run by a country’s home board but are approved.

However, after a three-hour meeting in South Africa a breakthrough could not be found between all parties, and a decision will now be left to the ICC in April.

“I am grateful to all parties for coming together with the best of intentions and the discussions took place in a friendly and cordial manner but, unfortunately, we were not able to come to a successful conclusion in our discussions,” said Morgan.

“The ICL’s application for approval as unofficial cricket will now go before the ICC board at its April meeting in Dubai.

“Given the discussions took place without prejudice, no further comment will be made at this time.”

The ICL, bankrolled by television giants Zee, has been in a bitter dispute with the BCCI, who stages the approved Indian Premier League.

Several countries have banned their players from playing international cricket if they turned out for the ICL - as they try to avoid any big-name players making an appearance.

Previous talks in October also broke down and Zee has previously threatened to get the courts involved to resolve the dispute.

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Australian fast bowler Brett Lee is recovering from his injury faster than expected and is set for an early comeback to international cricket in the one-day series against Pakistan in April.

“He’s going really well. I saw him last week and he’s making good progress. At the moment, he’s doing a lot of strength work and he will be cleared to start running in a couple of weeks,” Kountouris said.

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Kevin Pietersen has said he did not stay up all night in Jamaica, where he was on tour with the England side, awaiting the results of the IPL auction on February 6. Pietersen emerged the big winner along with team-mate Andrew Flintoff at the event in Goa, earning annual contracts worth US$1.55 million each, making them the highest-earning players in the league. However, Pietersen said he was wary of flaunting around his dollars while his friends were coping with the global economic crisis.

“It’s an unbelievable amount of money,” Pietersen told media. “But I didn’t stay up all night waiting for the results of the auction. I am in the Caribbean in the middle of an important Test series against the West Indies and preparation and focus for that is the most important thing.

“I was honoured when I heard the news that I was one of the most highly-rated players in the world. But I can’t let things like this affect my focus,” he said. “There has been no banter in the dressing room as to how much money we went for. There is a huge credit crunch in England and some of my mates have been made redundant. I have friends who have lost their jobs, so it’s not the time to start shaking your money around.”

While Pietersen was bought by Bangalore Royal Challengers, Flintoff was purchased for the same sum by Chennai Super Kings - who had paid US$1.5m for Mahendra Singh Dhoni last year. Flintoff, too, was happy with the way things had panned out. “We would not have had any problem with different prices, but I guess being the same might stop a few of the other lads taking the mick. I’m very pleased. I went in at $950,000 so to get that much it’s unbelievable really, it has not quite sunk in, I guess. I regard it as a massive bonus.

“My team includes guys like my friend Murali [Muttiah Muralitharan], Matthew Hayden and Mahendra Singh Dhoni as captain. So it’s a very exciting team,” he said. “But I’m here in Jamaica playing a Test match. My mind is full of that and the IPL is not for another six weeks. I just regard it as a massive bonus.”

Paul Collingwood and Owais Shah were the other players in the touring party to bag contracts - both for the Delhi Daredevils. “I didn’t make any plans to stay up with the Test match in progress, but I must admit I got a text message telling me what had happened. I slept easily after that!” Collingwood said. “I’m absolutely delighted at the price tag on my head. The reserve price was $250,000 so to get a bit more than that is a really nice feeling.”

There was some cheer in the opposition camp as well, with West Indian fast bowlers Jerome Taylor and Fidel Edwards being lapped up at the auction, although Ramnaresh Sarwan and Daren Powell were unsold. Edwards got news of his $150,000 contract with the Deccan Chargers on his 27th birthday.

“It feels great. It was a good birthday gift,” he told the media. Playing in the IPL will give me the chance to have a new experience and play alongside different players and in different conditions,” he said. “It is good to see people recognising your talent and requiring your services.”

Edwards was a surprise pick, given he played only three Twenty20 games for Barbados, and was not part of the Stanford Superstars squad that won the Stanford 20/20 for 20 against England last year.”I always felt I was good enough to play Twenty20 cricket. This is good for me personally and good for my cricket career,” he said. “At present, however, I am concentrating on West Indies cricket and looking to help the team beat England. This series is crucial to us and we want to win and more importantly win at home.”

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Strauss and England head to the Caribbean on Wednesday ahead of the four-Test, one Twenty20 international and five-match one-day international series against the Windies, starting in Jamaica on February 4.

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