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ICL Twenty20 Finals Hyderabad Heroes vs Lahore Badshahs Live Streaming Online

maverick12210 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:53:35 +0000

Catch the Finals of the ICL Twenty20 Grand Indian Championship Season 2 between Hyderabad Heroes vs Lahore Badshahs Live Streaming Online from Ahmedabad on the following Link

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ICL Twenty20 Grand Indian Championship Season 2 Live Streaming Online

maverick12210 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:04:36 +0000

Catch All the Live ICL Twenty20 Championship Cricket Streaming Action Online from The ICL Twenty20 Series 2008 known as the ICL 20s Grand Indian Championship 2008/09 on this website

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Watch the Finals of ICL Season 2 – Hyderabad Heroes vs Lahore Badshahs Live Streaming Online at

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ICL Twenty20 World Series Tournament Live Streaming Online

maverick12210 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:39:29 +0000

Catch the Live action from the 1st ICL 20’s World Series Tournament Live Online From L.B Stadium in Hyderabad

Featuring 3 Teams - ICL India, ICL Pakistan and ICL World.

Catch all the live matches from the ICL 20s World Series Tournament on Live Cricket Zone

Click Here To catch the ICL 20s World Series Live Streaming Online

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ICL Twenty20 Championship Live Online Streaming Links

maverick12210 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:09:33 +0000

Watch the Finals of ICL Season 2 – Hyderabad Heroes vs Lahore Badshahs Live Streaming Online at

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Catch all the live action from the 2nd ICL Twenty20 Edelweiss Championship via live streaming at the following link

Click Here To Watch ICL 2008 Edelweiss Twenty20 Series

ICL 2008 Season Edelweiss Twenty20 Series Fixtures

Edelweiss 20s Challenge 2008 (Twenty20 match Series)

09 Mar, Sun
Rockets beat Lions by 19 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.10 Mar, Mon
Giants beat Champs by 6 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.11 Mar, Tue
Badshahs beat Superstars by 5 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.12 Mar, Wed
Tigers beat Champs by 2 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.13 Mar, Thu
Badshahs beat Heroes by 9 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.15 Mar, Sat
Lions beat Giants by 34 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.15 Mar, Sat
Heroes beat Superstars by 7 wickets

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.16 Mar, Sun
Giants beat Rockets by 9 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.16 Mar, Sun
Badshahs beat Lions by 38 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.17 Mar, Mon
Superstars beat Tigers by 4 wickets

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.18 Mar, Tue
Champs beat Rockets by 6 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.19 Mar, Wed
Heroes beat Tigers by 4 wickets

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.20 Mar, Thu
Superstars beat Giants by 56 runs

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.21 Mar, Fri
Heroes beat Rockets by 52 runs

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.21 Mar, Fri
Badshahs beat Champs by 50 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.22 Mar, Sat
Tigers beat Rockets by 8 wickets

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.22 Mar, Sat
Lions beat Superstars by 4 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.23 Mar, Sun
Superstars beat Champs by 9 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.23 Mar, Sun
Badshahs beat Giants by 8 wickets

Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana.24 Mar, Mon
Giants beat Heroes by 7 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana.25 Mar, Tue
Champs beat Lions by 35 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana.26 Mar, Wed
Tigers beat Lions by 22 runs

Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana.27 Mar, Thu
Superstars beat Rockets by 22 runs

Lal Bahadur Stadium,Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad .28 Mar, Fri
Badshahs beat Tigers by 22 runs

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.29 Mar, Sat
Lions vs Heroes
Match begins at 19:00 (IST) Hyderabad

Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana.30 Mar, Sun
Giants vs Tigers
Match begins at 13:30 (IST) Gurgaon

Lal Bahadur Stadium, Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 30 Mar, Sun
Rockets vs Badshahs
Match begins at 19:00 (IST) Hyderabad

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.31 Mar, Mon
Heroes vs Champs
Match begins at 19:00 (IST) Hyderabad

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad – 01.02 Apr, Wed

SEMI FINAL # 1

Heroes beat Superstars by 4 runs

Match begins at 1900 IST Hyderabad

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula – 01.03 Apr, Thurs

SEMI FINAL # 2

Badshahs beat Tigers by 7 runs

Match begins at 1900 IST Chandigarh (Panchkula)

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.04 Apr, Fri

3rd vs 4th place
Match begins at 1330 IST Chandigarh (Panchkula)

Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Sector-3, Panchkula.04 Apr, Fri
FINAL # 1
Match begins at 1900 IST Chandigarh (Panchkula)

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad.06 Apr, Sun
FINAL # 2
Match begins at 1900 IST Hyderabad

Lal Bahadur Stadium,
Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad.07 Apr, Mon
FINAL # 3
Match begins at 1900 IST Hyderabad

Read More about ICL at the official website of ICL at

http://indiancricketleague.in

ICL Twenty20 Tournament Live Streaming Sites

maverick12210 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:31:46 +0000

Catch all the Live Action from the 1st ICL Twenty20 Championship via live streaming at the following links

**UPDATE** Click The New Link Below for ICL Season 2 Twenty20 Live Streaming Online**

ICL Twenty20 Season 2 Grand Indian Championship Live Streaming Online

ICL Twenty20 Indian Championship Live Online Free Streaming

An Unofficial Guide of the Indian Cricket League – ICL

maverick12210 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:57:51 +0000

The Indian Cricket League is set to begin on November 30, with a host of familiar names taking part, though many are no longer playing international cricket. Here’s your guide to the unofficial Twenty20 tournament

What is the Indian Cricket League?
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a tournament set to run parallel to BCCI-run tournaments in India. Contrary to common perception, the ICL is not a breakaway league but an entirely new entity.

How did the ICL come about?
The roots of the ICL lies in the same issue as those of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket: discontent over TV rights. The Essel Group’s Zee TV believed it got a raw deal in the allocation of Indian cricket¹s TV rights the last time around when, despite making the highest bid, Zee was denied the rights for want of experience in sport broadcasting. The ICL – a joint venture between the Essel Group and Infrastructure Leasing & Finance Services (IL&FS) – is seen by many as Essel head Subhash Chandra Goel’s attempt to get back at the BCCI.

The Essel Group announced the formation of the league on April 3, 2007, saying the BCCI had failed to create “a reserve pipeline of players”, and that the idea behind the league was to create an “ideal pool with killing instinct”. They were quick to add that the ICL was not in conflict with the BCCI, and the board would be free to draw from the ICL’s talent pool.

What is the Essel Group?
Essel is one of India’s leading business houses, with interests in media, packaging, entertainment, education, and infrastructure development among other areas. It had an estimated turnover of $2.1 billion for the last financial year. Zee TV, with a range of specialist channels – news to entertainment to sport – has a strong presence in the Indian electronic media market, and the group’s DNA is a new entrant in the English-language newspaper market.

How is the ICL different from other leagues, like, say, the Kanga League?
Unlike other leagues that are run or funded by the BCCI or other parties, the ICL involves television coverage, which is the BCCI¹s main source of revenue.

Who will play in the league?
The ICL currently comprises six teams: Mumbai Champs, Chandigarh Lions, Chennai Super Stars, Delhi Jets, Hyderabad Heroes and Kolkata Tigers. The ICL, with its talent scouts -Balwinder Sandhu, Pranab Roy, Erapalli Prasanna, Bharat Reddy, and Rajesh Chauhan, all former India players at various levels – has managed to assemble a core of overseas players who have either retired from international cricket or are disgruntled with their respective boards (or are simply in it for the money) , sidelined Indian internationals who have little hope of making it back into the national team, and domestic players, most of whom are nowhere close to national selection.

The biggest draws for the ICL at present are Brian Lara, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Lance Klusener, Chris Cairns, Nathan Astle, Chris Harris, Abdul Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood, Imran Farhat, Nicky Boje, Vikram Solanki, Paul Nixon, Hamish Marshall, Dinesh Mongia and Deep Dasgupta.

After a lull in recruitment, several England cricketers – including Paul Nixon, Chris Read and Vikram Solanki – and South African cricketers such as Dale Benkenstein signed up fir the ICL In the fortnight before the teams for the tournament were announced.

Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf was one of the ICL’s star recruits but he later cancelled his contract and joined the officially sanctioned Twenty20 tournament, the Indian Premier League (IPL). Several other marquee names such as Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Stephen Fleming were initially reported to be interested in the ICL, but are now associated with the IPL.

What is the lure for players to join the ICL?
Although there are no official figures, it is speculated that on the lower end of the scale a player stands to earn as much as Rs 30 lakh ($72,600 approximately) a year, irrespective of how many matches he plays.

The ICL’s fees for ex-internationals are said to be substantially higher. Players from the English counties will earn, it is believed, £50,000 for a three-week stint.

The league has promised $1 million in prize money in the first season, half of which goes to the champion team. The Ranji Trophy champions last season took away Rs 50 lakh (US$127,000) by comparison.

Essel has promised to invest Rs 100 crore (US$ 25 million approximately) on the ICL to start with. It also claims it will look after the players better than the BCCI does and provide them job security.

While the prize money for the ICL seemed enormous at the time of the announcement, the wind was taken out of its sails by the IPL which offered US$ 3million as prize money. Also, in a move widely seen as a reaction to the ICL, the BCCI increased both the pay and the prize money on offer in domestic cricket.

What is the format of the tournament?
The inaugural tournament of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) will be held between November 30 and December 16 at the Tau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium in Panchkula, Chandigarh (four hours from Delhi). The tournament will comprise 20 Twenty20 matches, with the final on December 16. The dates for the tournament clash with India’s home Test series against Pakistan.

What is the standing of the ICL in international cricket?
The BCCI has not recognised the league, in consequence to which the ICC and most national cricket boards have refused to recognise it.

Indian players, current or former, who associate with the ICL in any capacity have been barred from availing any BCCI benefits – which also implies they will not be eligible for selection to the national team. The ICL, though, has moved court, contesting the BCCI’s right to represent “India”.

Several national boards have also threatened to ban their players for aligning with the ICL. However, the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA), which is the representative body of first-class cricketers in England and Wales, has come out in support of the cricketers who have joined the ICL.

Where does the ICL go from here?
Not entirely clear. It’s still a surprise to some that the ICL has made it so far, got so many players on board and found a ground on which to hold the tournament. Indian television channels – and not just those owned by the Zee group – are running promos. There is even talk of a repeat tournament six months down the line.

Much will depend on the success – always a relative word, in this case even more so – of the first tournament. If Lara, Inzamam and the other big names land up and catch fire, if the concurrent India-Pakistan series starts to drift, the public will be more likely to watch. Meanwhile, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission’s (MRTPC) investigative wing is looking into the BCCI¹s refusal to share infrastructure with the ICL. If the courts conclude that the BCCI is indulging in monopolistic practices, they can intervene, much like they did when they fined the board for barring players from writing for newspapers and magazines. The coming months promise to be interesting, not necessarily in purely cricketing terms.

Zee will Broadcast ICL on 25 Channels

maverick12210 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:14:39 +0000

Essel Group has announced that they would be broadcasting the first 30 minutes of the Indian Cricket League (ICL) matches on all Zee channels.

They are however excluding two of their movie channels (Zee Cinema and Zee Studio) from this plan.

This means that these domestic cricket matches would get telecasted on channels which are watchable in 125 countries around the world.

These matches were originally planned only for their Zee Sports.

Essel Group senior vice president Ashish Kaul said in a statement: “We have decided to put domestic cricket on a bigger platform and plan to make it available to a much wider audience. Zee Network is available in 125 countries and has a subscriber base of over 550 million. We believe this is a landmark decision for domestic cricket.”

In a last ditch effort to attract television advertisers to the India Cricket League, the Subash Chandra-promoted breakaway Twenty20 cricket series, the Zee management has decided to simulcast the first 30 minutes of all the ICL matches live across its 25 channels within India and seven international feeds.

ICL, which is primarily a television property for the Zee group, kicks off on November 30 and is yet to find advertisers.
ICL was announced in April this year as an alternative cricket league to promote talent. However, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announcing its own Twenty20 league, the India Premiere League (IPL), to be played in April next year, advertisers have adopted a wait-and-watch policy before committing money on either of the leagues.

Terming it as a first-of-a-kind move to enable ICL matches to be viewed in over 125 countries, Ashish Kaul, executive vice-president, Essel Group said: “It has never been done before. The first 30-minutes of two matches, that would be played each day from November 30 to December 16, will be available live on all our network channels so that they can be sampled by almost everyone.”

Within the country, the Zee network of 25 channels has a reach of about 100 million cable and satellite and direct-to-home subscribers. Outside India, the Zee bouquet of channels, through seven feeds, reaches Europe, North America, Africa, Australia among other countries.

As a result of this decision, the entire Zee network of 25 channels will have to reschedule their programmes for 30 minutes, once at 2 pm and next at 6 pm to accommodate the league matches.

Earlier, Zee had told advertisers that the matches will be telecast only on Zee Sports and gave no surety whether they would also be shown on Ten Sports – the channel in which Zee is an equal partners.

Advertisers have been lukewarm to this offer as Zee Sports has a very limited distribution in homes (only 20% of the cable homes) unlike Ten Sports which is available in 70% of the cable homes.

According to the format, two Twenty20 matches will be played between six teams each day. These teams feature international cricket stars including Brian Lara, Chris Cairns, Marvan Atapattu and a host of domestic cricket players.