Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, claims a leading English football club is interested in bidding for a new team in the fourth edition of the IPL next year. In an interview to the Times, Modi - also the Champions League Twenty20 commissioner - said he was in talks with the Marylebone Cricket Club who were also apparently eager to become involved in the IPL.
"There is a football club, a very famous football club in the UK, very interested in bidding," Modi said. "[They are] probably one of the most famous football clubs - that's all I can say. Probably top three. They are interested in taking a stake."
Responding to speculation in the Indian media, Modi later said on his Twitter page that the club in mention was not Chelsea.
The IPL will include two more teams from the 2011 season and will auction the franchise rights at a base price of $225 million ahead of the third season, which starts in India on March 12, and will invite potential investors this week. That figure - double of what the most expensive franchise was sold for in 2008 and more than four times the base price in that first auction - is, in an uncertain market, a sign of the league's confidence in itself and the Twenty20 format.
According to Modi, the MCC would be a value addition to the IPL and open up the possibility of taking the bandwagon overseas to Lord's. "I have talked [to MCC] last night and they are quite interested," he said.
Keith Bradshaw, the MCC chief executive, did not deny he had been approached but would not confirm to join the IPL. "At the moment, our finances are focused on the redevelopment of the ground," he said.
The league's expansion will see a much longer fixture list - 94 games as opposed to 59 in the first two seasons if the format remains the same - and accommodating it in the 45-day window without compromising players' fitness, and keeping the international calendar in mind, will be a challenge.
Deccan chargers slap ipl with notice
Deccan chargers slap ipl with notice
NEW DELHI: Deccan Chargers have slapped notice to Indian Premiere League for shifting their matches out of Hyderabad due to Telangana crisis. Day
in Pics: February 14 Chargers said that IPL ignored safety assurances given by the Andhra Pradesh government.
More than a dozen changes were incorporated by the IPL authorities in the revised schedule of the Twenty20 League whose third edition is to be held from March 12-April 25.
These changes were made after IPL shifted all matches of Deccan Chargers from Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam to other centres because of the ongoing Telangana agitation in Andhra Pradesh.
Some matches not involving Deccan Chargers also had to be given a tweak in the new schedule put up on its website.
Nagpur, discarded as an option for the Mumbai Indians to play its home ties, now hosts three matches of Deccan Chargers.
The other four ties featuring the Hyderabad franchise, including the opening match, would be held in Navi Mumbai's D Y Patil Stadium
NEW DELHI: Deccan Chargers have slapped notice to Indian Premiere League for shifting their matches out of Hyderabad due to Telangana crisis. Day
in Pics: February 14 Chargers said that IPL ignored safety assurances given by the Andhra Pradesh government.
More than a dozen changes were incorporated by the IPL authorities in the revised schedule of the Twenty20 League whose third edition is to be held from March 12-April 25.
These changes were made after IPL shifted all matches of Deccan Chargers from Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam to other centres because of the ongoing Telangana agitation in Andhra Pradesh.
Some matches not involving Deccan Chargers also had to be given a tweak in the new schedule put up on its website.
Nagpur, discarded as an option for the Mumbai Indians to play its home ties, now hosts three matches of Deccan Chargers.
The other four ties featuring the Hyderabad franchise, including the opening match, would be held in Navi Mumbai's D Y Patil Stadium
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