Monday, 28 December 2009

Inpostlinks

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Thursday, 10 December 2009

IPL

‘‘We are already midway with our plans for the 2010 IPL. The camps are about to start, the core team is in place and we’ve already hired the needed experts to look at the possible requirements. Until now, there was so much ambiguity on Pakistan cricketers that they naturally weren’t in our scheme of things," says a franchise official.

Only three of the eight IPL franchisees didn’t bid for any of the Pakistan players in the first year of IPL, in 2008. The rest five played the 2009 edition of the tournament without the services of players from across the border and were indeed preparing to do it again this time around. On Thursday, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi was emphatic when he claimed that ‘‘things are moving towards normalcy and a final decision will be taken on December 17, as far as involvement of Pak players is concerned."

The decision will be in regards to how these players can go through an auction slated for January 19 in Mumbai. The four cricketers cannot play for their original IPL teams that had signed them in the inaugural year. Following the November 26 attacks in Mumbai, after which Pakistan cricketers touring India was not possible, the IPL franchisees had terminated their contracts with these cricketers.