Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir Kumar Sangakkara were each fined USD 20,000 for their teams’ slow-over rates. This was the first time that four captains were fined for slow rates. Interesting point is that till today only 2 matches have been played and in both matches, both sides were found slow by match referees Andy Pycroft and Srinivas Venkataraghavan respectively

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Bhubaneswar: Deccan Chargers’ skipper Adam Gilchrist was today threatened by a minor political party asking him to wear a black badge for the attack on Indians in Australia

Hemant Rath, president of Kalinga Sena said “Gilchrist must wear black badge or else no Australian player would be allowed to play at the Barabati stadium.”

He also opposes the presence of cheer girls and said “Sena ativists will certainly penetrate the securitynet and stop the matches at Cuttack if cheer girls dance there.”

The commissioner of police of Bhubaneswar-Cuttack, BK Sharma said that he is confident of smooth IPL matches on March 19 and March 21.

Deccan Chargers will take on King’s XI, Punjab on March 19 and will play against Delhi Dare Devils on March 21.

News broadcasters NBC has ended the boycott of the Indian Premier League after an agreement with the cash-rich Indian league authorities.

“The news broadcasters end boycott of IPL coverage. Let the show begin,” editor-in-chief of IBN network Rajdeep Sardesai said on his Twitter account.

As per the new guidelines issued by the IPL, “there has to be a minimum of a 10-minute delay from the live telecast by the official broadcaster before telecast of any match footage by a news broadcaster.”

However, the “news broadcasters will be allowed to telecast an exceptional event (newsworthy event of an exceptional nature) occurring during the course of a match with a minimum of a five-minute delay from the conclusion of the live telecast of such exceptional event”.

The 15-point guidelines includes a clause that news and current affairs broadcasters will be allowed a maximum of 5.5 minutes of ‘fresh footage’ per match in a day, “including not more than 4.5 minutes of deferred live coverage of match play and not more than 1.5 minutes of deferred in-stadium entertainment footage”.

“It’s good that we have come to an understanding with the news channels. It’s a nice way to start the tournament. I find the channels are already full of news concerning IPL,” the league’s vice chairman Niranjan Shah told IANS.