“To lightly paraphrase the late Dr H.S. Thompson, ‘The sports business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men Ldie like dogs. There is also a negative side’” – The Old Batsman’s mind is on Lalit Modi and the IPL.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
“The concept of MCC involvement in the IPL is something I believe is worthy of thorough investigation, and something that we’ll take to our committee for their deliberation” – Keith Bradshaw, MCC chief executive.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
“Fica, the international players’ union, expects a mass pull-out of players from the tournament this week unless security concerns are addressed or the IPL is moved out of India” – the seemingly-invincible series displays its Achilles heel.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
“The decision about whether to play in the IPL, which starts in Mumbai on March 12, will rest with individual players” – England’s eight IPL players will be using a report from the Professional Cricketers’ Association due early next week to gauge whether they face insurmountable security risks.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
“The pioneer years of Twenty20 are over. For the counties it is time to start swimming or sink like a stone. The IPL teams’ revenues are hindered by one obvious problem – they only play for a tiny fraction of the year. All of the franchises will, naturally, be looking to expand to become year-round operations. That is the natural course of remorseless profit-logic, and the biggest single force for change in cricket at the moment” – The Guardian’s Andy Bull on the implications of the Rajasthan Royals’ incursion into the home counties.
“Yes, an American is more theoretically likely to watch a three-hour hit’n'giggle than a Test match, but only in the same way that I am more likely to win the lottery than a Nobel Prize for physics” – Alan Tyres does not believe that Lalit Modi has backed a winner this time.
The Indian Ambassador is expected to be summoned to the Foreign Office amid a growing row over Phil “The Cat” Tufnell’s shock exclusion from the Indian Premier League.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
“The internet has changed the lives of everyone and this will do the same for sport – we are now taking our event truly global for the first time. Google gives us access to 500 million pairs of eyes every single moment of the day. We do not have a live feed in the UK [at the moment], people in the UK keep asking me why they can’t see it. Now, if they have a broadband connection, they can get it for free” – IPL supremo Lalit Modi on the link-up between his series and Google-owned YouTube.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
“Taking on Australia next winter is going to be a huge challenge and one that I am fully committed to. I want to be an integral part of the first England cricket team to retain the Ashes since 1972 and I will be giving myself the best possible chance of achieving that by not playing in the IPL” – James Anderson is joined by Stuart Broad who says his first priority is also playing for England.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
“Telegraph Sport can reveal that [Stuart] Broad’s representatives have made contact with IPL chairman Lalit Modi to begin the process of signing for one of the eight franchises” – News that does not fill The Nurdler with joy. Oh, by the by, he’s fit for England too…
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