Match Abandoned without even a single ball bowled.  Both teams receive one point each

Today’s match is a do or die for Delhi Daredevils,if they win the match they can almost make it into the semifinals where as the Kolkata Knight Riders are almost out of the league.
Delhi Daredevils (probables): Virender Sehwag (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Shikhar Dhawan, Shoaib Malik, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof, Rajat Bhatia, Amit Mishra, Yo Mahesh, Glenn McGrath

Kolkata Knight Riders (probables): Salman Butt, Debabrata Das, Sourav Ganguly (capt), David Hussey, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wriddhiman Saha, Ajit Agarkar, Ajantha Mendis, Ishant Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Umar Gul

Match Number – 47
20:00 hours Indian Standard Time
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Essex chief executive David East has confirmed that fast bowler Andre Nel is to cut short his stint as the county’s overseas player to take part in the Indian Premier League.

The 30-year-old was scheduled to make his last appearance in Sunday’s Friends Provident Trophy game against Middlesex Crusaders but East confirmed that Nel has been released following their 106-run defeat to Kent.

Nel, who may return to England later in the summer with the touring South Africans, is available to play for Mumbai Indians in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament on Sunday.
Source:cricket365.com

A DISPUTE that could gravely affect the future of the Indian Premier League is brewing, with some Australian players who participated in the glitzy competition still waiting to be paid.

The unprecedented player auction shocked the cricket world in February, with top Australian players signed by rich Indian franchises for huge amounts of money. However, it seems not everyone has yet enjoyed the windfall.

Australian Cricketers Association chief executive Paul Marsh confirmed that a number of the Australians were yet to receive their wages. He said his organisation was not panicking about the impasse but was preparing to take firmer action if there was no breakthrough soon.

That time is creeping up. One player confided to The Sun-Herald that he had been told three times that his wages were on the way.

“First I was told it would be in two weeks,” the player said.

“That passed by and I was told it would be in the following week. Then I was told it would be in in the next few days. I just said, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’.”

Another player was trying to get an instalment through because he needed it to meet mortgage repayments. A third player confirmed to The Sun-Herald that he had finally been paid on Wednesday. “It’s something we’re aware of. There’s still a few that haven’t been paid,” Marsh said.

“It’s certainly something we’ve got our eye on but it’s not something that we’re panicking about. We just want to get a result as soon as we can. I don’t want to blow this up into something that it’s not, but I also do want to sort it out as quickly as possible.”

Marsh said the ACA had no formal link with the franchises as they do not recognise player associations. However, the franchises – which have sole responsibility to pay the players – have agreements with the BCCI. Therefore, he said, if the wages were not paid, the ACA’s only recourse would be through the BCCI.

However, Marsh is confident the problem would be resolved soon.

“The bad PR that would eventuate if the players weren’t paid would be so bad that none of the players would go back and the whole thing would fall over,” he said.

“You’re talking about some billion-dollar corporations so you just can’t see how they wouldn’t pay their players. They know they have to pay their players and that’s why we’re not panicking.

“The clubs’ focus has been about putting their teams on the field. It’s organised chaos over there. But at the same time, we’d like to think they would have been more professional than this.

“It’s something we’ll go a bit harder on in the not too distant future if it doesn’t get sorted out.”
Source:smh.com.au

New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Sourav Ganguly has denied reports of a rift between him and team owner Shah Rukh Khan over team composition and tactical matters, and said he will clear the matter soon.

Ganguly rubbished media reports which had claimed that Shah Rukh was not happy with some of his decisions in crunch matches while he himself was unhappy for not having enough say in team composition.

“It’s not true. I have seen the reports and will make a clarification soon,” Ganguly said, refusing to be drawn further into the matter.

Earlier, the team management had also described the reports of the rift between cricket icon and matinee idol as “false and baseless”.

A top team source insisted that Shah Rukh and Ganguly were in the best of relationships and said, “All these reports of a rift are false and baseless. We don’t have any problem in the team.

“It is only that our performance had not been to what we had expected. Because we are losing, people are imagining things that we are having problems in running the team,” the source added.

He said Shah Rukh himself would soon be issuing a statement in Mumbai to clarify the matter.

After their loss to Rajasthan Royals in Kolkata, Knight Riders are virtually out of reckoning for a semifinal berth save for a miracle. They play Delhi Dredevils here on Thursday in their penultimate match.
Source:cricketnext.com