2-year bids likely for Chennai, Jaipur teams

The board picked IPL GC chairman Rajiv Shukla, secretary Anurag Thakur, treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary, former India captain and GC member Sourav Ganguly and Supreme Court lawyer ­ and old BCCI warhorse ­ Ushanath Banerjee to be part of the group. Sources told TOI that this panel would discuss the feasibility of calling bids for two news teams for Chennai and Jaipur. The GC also feels that any solution they arrive at should appear transparent and pass muster with judiciary. Thus, the effort would be to get reputed companies to bid for the two teams.

A majority of Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council (GC) members favour calling bids for two new teams for Chennai and Jaipur, to replace Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals, according to sources.
This bid will be for two years. In 2018, IPL will call for fresh bids for all teams as the franchises were sold for 10 years in the first auction in 2008. However, the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) could face a challenge in attracting credible buyers for two new teams for just two years, especially as CSK and RR would likely legally challenge any such move. BCCI, on Monday, appointed a five-member working group to study the implications of the 59-page Lodha Committee report and draw a roadmap for IPL from next year. This panel will have six weeks to submit their findings to BCCI after which a final call will be taken in a working committee meeting in September.

The option of BCCI taking over the two teams did not find favour with most of the attendees, primarily because of the fear that it would attract a 'conflict of interest' taint.

BCCI officials also want to be sure that they do not land into trouble the way they did with Kochi Tuskers, whose contract was earlier terminated. The Tuskers have won their case against BCCI after arbitration and stand to gain more than Rs 500 crore.

If they decide to terminate CSK and Royals, the two teams will be free to go to court and a stay on termination will create roadblocks for BCCI in its bid to sell two new franchises. "The committee will consult the legal experts before coming up with recommendations since we do not want any legal complications later on," Shukla said. He reiterated on Monday that BCCI has already accepted the Lodha Committee report, which is final and binding on them, in totality.

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The schedule of warm-up matches is :

8 February: Australia v India, 2pm, Adelaide Oval.
9 February: South Africa v Sri Lanka, 11am, Hagley Oval.
9 February: New Zealand v Zimbabwe, 11am Lincoln Oval. 
9 February: England v West Indies, 2.30pm Sydney Cricket Ground. 
9 February: Pakistan v Bangladesh, 2.30pm Blacktown. 
10 February: India v Afghanistan, 2pm, Adelaide Oval. 
10 February: Ireland v Scotland, 2.30pm, Blacktown. 
11 February: South Africa v New Zealand, 11am, Hagley Oval. 
11 February: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, 11am, Lincoln Oval. 
11 February: Australia v United Arab Emirates, 2.30pm, MCG. 
11 February: England v Pakistan, 2.30pm, SCG. 
12 February: West Indies v Scotland, 9.30am, SCG. 
12 February: Bangladesh v Ireland, 9.30am, Blacktown. 
13 February: Afghanistan v United Arab Emirates, 10am, Junction Oval.

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Warm Up Matches

 

 

A total of 14 warm-up matches will be played from 8 to 13 February in Adelaide, Christchurch, Melbourne and Sydney. Venues include Adelaide Oval, Hagley Oval in Christchurch, the Sydney Cricket Ground and the Melbourne Cricket Ground, all of which are hosting matches in the tournament proper.
Warm up matches will also be played at the following non-tournament venues:
Blacktown’s International Sports Park in Sydney’s western suburbs
Junction Oval in Melbourne
Lincoln Oval outside Christchurch. 
The public will be welcome to attend warm up matches which will be ticketed but free of charge. Tickets can be obtained by following the links below and should be printed at home and brought to the ground.

 Warm up tickets are only available online and delivered as a Print at Home email PDF ticket.

Please be aware not all seating areas or gates within the venue will be operating or available for warm up matches and ticket holders will be guided to available seating areas by venue staff.

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 commercial rights protection programme

 

Following a successful partnership during the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 and the ICC World Twenty20 2014, the ICC has continued its engagement of Copyright Integrity International (CII) to work closely with its in-house legal team on the management of a comprehensive rights protection programme for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, which gets underway on 14 February 2015 in Australia and New Zealand.

Based in Bengaluru, India, CII is a privately-held specialist in online and offline anti-piracy protection services for sports clients. It will provide the ICC with a suite of commercial rights-protection and anti-piracy services and solutions such as online content and broadcast protection, comprehensive trademark and brand protection, and media terms enforcement, in a programme designed to protect the ICC’s intellectual property rights from the threats of piracy, ambush marketing and unlicensed use.

 

As part of that programme, it has recently released brand and content protection guidelines for the tournament.  Through a series of easy to understand FAQs and illustrations, this document provides companies and members of the public with a useful guide to how they might associate with the event without infringing the rights that have been granted to the ICC’s official partners.  

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More other facts that we discussed about the cricketers through numbers are :

31- Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka has snared 31 wickets in his 15 World Cup matches.

17.87- This is the lowest World Cup average of Malinga among all the bowlers named for 2015 tournament.

46- Sangakkara has also taken 36 catches and executed 10 stumpings and enters the ICC Cricket World Cup 2k15 with the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper.

2- This the number of players who have played World Cup for more than one country and this are also playing 2015 World Cup.

14- It is the number of team competing in ICC World Cup 2k15

23- Years since both Australia and New Zealand last hosted the ICC Cricket World Cup.

14- Number of host cities across Australia and New Zealand.

1- Last but not the least, the number 1 is for One champion will be crowned the ICC World Cup 2015 trophy at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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Some more other facts that we discussed about the cricketers through numbers yesterday, which are going to take participate in this ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2k15 are :

33-Mahela Jayawardene from Sri Lanka is the most experienced player who played 33 matches across the tournaments of 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011.

5-This is the numbers of 2015 players named MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina from India (all part of the 2011 winning XI), Michael Clarke and Shane Watson from Austalia (part of the 2007 winning XI)), Whereas Ravindra Ashwin, India's 2011 squad and Mitchell Johnson, Brad Haddin were part of Australia 2007 squad.

991- Sri Lanka's player Kumar Sangakkara has scored 991 in world cup runs in 30 matches acoss the years 2003, 2007, and 2011 tournaments.

83.63- Michael Clarke. skipper of Australia has 83.63 as a average in World Cup matches. He scored 669 runs and also has a strike rate of 93.57 in 15 innings and it is the highest average of any 2015 player.

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2015: Squads by the Numbers

 

200+ players which are the world's best cricketers will be actively participating in ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 from 14 February 2015. As all the final names of the squad has been declared, let us see some interesting facts.

Some facts about the cricketers through numbers which are going to take participate in this ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2k15 are :

210- There are 210 players who are playing in this tournament.

43- This is most oldest age among all the team's player named Khurram Khan which is 43 years old and is vice captain if the United Arab Emirates.

18- Youngest player that is of 18 Years old named Usman Ghani of Afghanistan who was 16 during 2011 tournament is also playing.

Some more to come...