Here is the list of 51 players who are available for IPL – 2010.
Australia: Doug Bollinger, Brad Haddin, Phillip Hughes, Ashley Noffke, Jason Krejza, Ben Laughlin, Graham Manou, Damien Martyn, Clint McKay, Peter Siddle, Adam Voges
Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan
Canada: Rizwan Cheema
Holland: Ryan ten Doeschate
New Zealand: Shane Bond, Grant Elliot, Nathan McCullum, Lou Vincent
Pakistan: Mohammad Aamer, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal, Rana Naved Ul Hasan, Imran Nazir, Abdul Razzaq.
South Africa: Yusuf Abdulla, Zander de Bruyn, Justin Kemp, Rory Kleinveldt, Wayne Parnell, Vernon Philander, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Johan van der Wath, Vaughn van Jaarsveld
The IPL 2010 will be bigger and better as 97 players including 26 Pakistani players have registered their names for the auction which is be held on 19th January 2010. Earlier Lalit Modi made it very clear that Pakistani player can only play via auction. Now Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Asif, Mohammed Aamer and Umar Akmal along with 22 Pakistani players have filed their registration.
The major change in this IPL would be that this time players from rival ICL have also registered. Some of these players are : -Saqlain Mushtaq, Damien Martyn, Chris Cairns Justin Kemp, Rizwan Cheema and Khurram Chohan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Niall O’Brien of Ireland.
Mumbai: Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi has said that Pakistan players under contract with IPL clubs need to go through the auction process, to play in the 2010 season.
Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Modi said: “There is an auction coming up on January 19. If there are spots open at the auction point. They can then apply through the auction”.
He denied any likelihood of changes in the present system to host the Pakistani players.
“As far as reversing these contracts is concerned, it’s a very difficult system because we have a system in place. And we can’t abuse the system. And everybody was given a fair chance to be able to go out there and prove their case and also present their NOC (No Objection Certificate) and letters. As they have missed the deadline, the teams have replaced these players and signed new contracts. So there are contractual obligations that come into place,” he said.
Modi’s statement comes at a time when Foreign Ministry is clearing visa applications of Pakistani cricketers Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Gul, Kamran Akmal and Sohail Tanvir.
IPL teams, Bangalore Royal Challengers have secured South Africa’s Roelof van der Merwe in place of Misbah while Carl Langeveldt has replaced Gul at Kolkata Knight Riders.
As for the team of Rajasthan Royals, Akmal and Tanvir have been preferred in place of Johan Botha.
The third edition of the IPL is scheduled to be held in India in March-April next year.
Source: dnaindia.com
NEW DELHI: Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi, on Monday, said that Pakistani players will not be able to take part in IPL 3 as they
failed to get clearance from PCB and obtain visas to play in India in March-April next year.
“No Pak player will take part in IPL 3 as they failed to get clearance from PCB”, Lalit Modi said.
Earlier, Pakistan federal interior ministry gave security clearance to the national cricketers to participate in the third edition of the Indian Premier League.
“The foreign ministry had already given political clearance for the players to take part in the IPL and now the interior ministry has also given its security clearance,” a PCB official had said.
He said the government had told the PCB it could now issue relevant NOC’s to players wishing to take part in the IPL and who get valid contracts from the IPL teams.
The government had stopped Pakistani players from taking part in the second season of the IPL this year on security grounds and because of the tense political relations between Pakistan and India after the Mumbai terror attacks.
Source:economictimes.indiatimes.com
NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians, the Indian Premier League team owned by Mukesh Ambani, has lost its largest sponsorship deal with Idea Cellular walking out of the $2-3 million per year contract two years before schedule.
“We were not very happy with the Mumbai Indians association; it did not give us the branding impact we had hoped for,” said an Idea Cellular official, defending its decision to terminate the Rs 10-15 crore/year deal signed just before the second edition of Indian Premier League earlier this year.
The spokesperson of the telecom operator, however, refused to confirm or comment on the termination of the deal. An email query sent to Mumbai Indians, led by Sachin Tendulkar, remained unanswered.
Cricket remains of prime import to Idea’s marketing plans though, particularly with India becoming the world’s top test team for the first time on Sunday.
It is now looking at a larger branding play with GMR-owned Delhi Daredevils, said the official talking on condition of anonymity. In October, Idea had picked up a one-year sponsorship of Delhi Daredevils for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament and IPL season three. The sponsorship involves Delhi Daredevils players displaying Idea logos on their jersey. Virender Sehwag, the talk of the town after his magnificent 293 in the third and final test against Sri Lanka that confirmed India’s rise to the top, captains the Delhi team.
Idea Cellular’s deal to become Mumbai Indians’ principal sponsor in the telecom services category was the biggest deal signed by any IPL franchisee for season two. Most of the other deals were in the Rs 2-5-crore-per-year bracket. At the time of the signing of the deal just before the second season of IPL earlier this year, both sides had agreed on a three-year association.
Soon after IPL was forced to relocate to South Africa, Idea and Mumbai Indians had drummed up an elaborate four-phase campaign, which aimed to connect the team’s players Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan with cricket fans. The campaign involved fans getting to call or SMS the cricketers, give them playing suggestions and wishing them good luck. Each player’s Idea number was flashed across mass media platforms. While Tendulkar, Harbhajan and Zaheer Khan had led the communication, similar 10 digit numbers were assigned to others in the Mumbai Indians team like Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya and West Indian Dwayne Bravo.
Other activation by Idea involved providing cricket updates, gaming, match videos and photographs. The campaign activity was not restricted to Idea subscribers and all operators, including landlines, had the option of ‘calling’ Mumbai Indians players. Idea’s tagline had been ‘duniya hila denge Indians’. Mumbai Indians’ other sponsors for IPL season two included chewing company Wrigley, beverage and snacks maker PepsiCo, MasterCard, Adidas and Pernod Richard.
With India sitting pretty on top of the cricketing world and the IPL joining the list of most popular sporting brands in the world, most marketers are looking at leveraging the Twenty20 league as a significant activation opportunity next year when it returns to the country after a year’s gap.
