Shah Rukh getting hate mails over multiple-captaincy
Durban, April 21 (IANS) Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) owner Shah Rukh Khan said he has been receiving 'hate' mails since the multiple-captaincy controversy brewed up a storm.
'I am getting strange hate mails from people for taking decision for the team's sake. But is is okay, I'm saving them all so that I can go to each house and say 'Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo,' Shah Rukh said after KKR beat Kings XI Punjab by 11 runs in an Indian Premier League match.
KKR coach John Buchanan's multiple-captaincy theory has raised a debate, specially in former captain Sourav Ganguly's city Kolkata. Ganguly's removal from the captaincy has left his fan indignant.
The Bollywood star asked Ganguly's fans to send positive responses.
'Along the way if we go wrong, please feel for us and send us positive energies.'
Shah Rukh also admitted the team is under a lot of pressure after the multiple captaincy theory.
'I know the team is under a lot of pressure after the multiple captains, the choice of captain and all that. At the moment the team is under a bit of a disarray, but we will stick together. We have started doing it,' Shah Rukh said.
'My team is under more pressure because it is owned by a film star and then you have such fan following, the backing of a city that supports you one night and gets angry the next night.'
Dancing Girls Cheerleaders add glamour quotient to IPL
Cheerleaders for Mumbai Indians perform duirng the during their IPL Twenty20 league match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Superkings at The Newlands Cricket Stadium in Cape Town on April 18, 2009. The Mumbai Indians scored 166 runs for the loss of seven wickets during their innings. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for the Kolkata Knight Riders perform during the IPL Twenty20 match at The Newlands Cricket Stadium in Cape Town on April 19, 2009. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for Chennai Super Kings dance during the IPL T20 match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at Newlands Cricket Ground on April 18, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders during the IPL T20 match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab on April 19, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for the Kolkata Knight Riders perform during the IPL Twenty20 match between Kolkata Knightriders and Deccan Chargers at The Newlands Cricket Stadium in Cape Town on April 19, 2009. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for Chennai Super Kings dance during the IPL T20 match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at Newlands Cricket Ground on April 18, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for the Kolkata Knight Riders perform during the IPL Twenty20 match at The Newlands Cricket Stadium in Cape Town on April 19, 2009. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to bat. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for Chennai Super Kings dance during the IPL T20 match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at Newlands Cricket Ground on April 18, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders during the IPL T20 match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab on April 19, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for the Kolkata Knight Riders perform during the IPL Twenty20 match between Kolkata Knightriders and Deccan Chargers at The Newlands Cricket Stadium in Cape Town on April 19, 2009. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Cheerleaders for Chennai Super Kings dance during the IPL T20 match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at Newlands Cricket Ground on April 18, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Tom Shaw/Getty Images)
IPL to start without star players
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is less than a week away but without a handful of stand-out players.
The league’s organisers pushed the dates back to 18th primarily to ensure the availability of South Africa and Australia’s players who finish their one-day series on the 12th, besides giving Indian players a deserved break after their victorious tour of New Zealand.
However these last minute changes have not helped the Twenty20 competition hold on to some of its star attractions.
Fortunately for the IPL, players from South Africa, New Zealand and Sri Lanka will be able to participate in the entire four-week event.
The irony is that this year’s IPL schedule clashes with negligible amount of international cricket. It clashes with five ODIs and a Twenty20 international between Australia and Pakistan in UAE, besides two Tests and ODIs between England West Indies midway through May.
Last year’s semifinalists Kings XI Punjab take the biggest hit as far as absent overseas players are concerned, followed by Deccan Chargers, Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. On the financial front, the biggest loser Symonds, who cost Deccan Chargers 1.35 million dollars. Both Symonds and Lee will earn considerably less since the duo is off to UAE to play Pakistan later this month.
Players not available for whole event: Punjab: Brett Lee, Shaun Marsh, James Hopes, Jerome Taylor, Ravi Bopara and Sreesanth due to an injury; Delhi: Paul Collingwood, Owais Shah and Brett Geeves; Mumbai: Dwayne Bravo; Kolkata: Chris Gayle, Ricky Ponting, David Hussey and more than a few Pakistan players; Bangalore: Cameron White, Kevin Pietersen, Dale Steyn and Nathan Bracken; Deccan: Andrew Symonds and Fidel Edwards; Chennai: Michael Hussey and Andrew Flintoff; Jaipur: Shane Watson, Sohail Tanvir and Kamran Akmal.
IPL ideal preparation for World T20: Yuvraj
Mumbai, Apr 11 (PTI) Flamboyant Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh sees the second edition of the Indian Premier League in South Africa as the perfect dress rehearsal for cricket playing nations ahead of the World Twenty20 Championship in England in June.
"The IPL has come at the right time to help all (countries) to prepare for the T20 World Cup. It will give all the players lot of practice as each team will play at least 14 matches. It's going to get better, the World T20 Cup (because of IPL)," the left-hander told reporters here today.
Yuvraj, who is the captain of Kings XI Punjab, co-owned by Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, was here along with the latter to announce Emirates association with the Mohali-based outfit as its official team sponsor.
Yuvraj, who did not have a successful Test series in New Zealand which India won 1-0 to rewrite history in Kiwi soil after 41 years, said the Kings XI would play similar to what they dished out last year en route the semi-finals in the first edition of the cash-rich T20 league.
"We won 8-10 games (actually ten out of 14 before losing to Chennai Super Kings in the semi-finals on May 31, 2008) last year. We will play in a similar fashion," he said.
He, however, refused to be drawn into a debate on the controversial multiple captaincy theory put forth by Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan. PTI
Indian Premier League Groups stage
April
| 16:00 18 April 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians  | v |  Chennai Super Kings | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 20:00 18 April 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals  | v |  Royal Challengers Bangalore | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 16:00 19 April 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils  | v |  Kings XI Punjab | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 20:00 19 April 2009 | (H) Deccan Chargers  | v |  Kolkata Knight Riders | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 20:00 20 April 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Royal Challengers Bangalore | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 16:00 21 April 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Kolkata Knight Riders | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 21 April 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals | v | Mumbai Indians | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 22 April 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Deccan Chargers | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 16:00 23 April 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Delhi Daredevils | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 23 April 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Rajasthan Royals | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 20:00 24 April 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Kings XI Punjab | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 16:00 25 April 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians | v | Deccan Chargers | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 25 April 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Kolkata Knight Riders | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 16:00 26 April 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Delhi Daredevils | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 20:00 26 April 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Rajasthan Royals | Newlands, Cape Town |
| 16:00 27 April 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Deccan Chargers | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 27 April 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Mumbai Indians | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 20:00 28 April 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils | v | Rajasthan Royals | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 16:00 29 April 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 29 April 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Mumbai Indians | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 16:00 30 April 2009 | (H) Deccan Chargers | v | Delhi Daredevils | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 30 April 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals | v | Chennai Super Kings | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
[edit] May
| 16:00 01 May 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians | v | Kolkata Knight Riders | Buffalo Park, East London |
| 20:00 01 May 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 16:00 02 May 2009 | (H) Deccan Chargers | v | Rajasthan Royals | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 20:00 02 May 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils | v | Chennai Super Kings | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
| 16:00 03 May 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Kings XI Punjab | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 20:00 03 May 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Mumbai Indians | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
| 20:00 04 May 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Deccan Chargers | Buffalo Park, East London |
| 16:00 05 May 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals | v | Kings XI Punjab | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 05 May 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils | v | Kolkata Knight Riders | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 06 May 2009 | (H) Deccan Chargers | v | Mumbai Indians | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 16:00 07 May 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Rajasthan Royals | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 07 May 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Chennai Super Kings | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 08 May 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils | v | Mumbai Indians | Buffalo Park, East London |
| 16:00 09 May 2009 | (H) Deccan Chargers | v | Kings XI Punjab | De Beers Oval, Kimberley |
| 20:00 09 May 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Rajasthan Royals | De Beers Oval, Kimberley |
| 16:00 10 May 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians | v | Royal Challengers Bangalore | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 20:00 10 May 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Delhi Daredevils | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
| 20:00 11 May 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals | v | Deccan Chargers | De Beers Oval, Kimberley |
| 16:00 12 May 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Kolkata Knight Riders | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 12 May 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians | v | Kings XI Punjab | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 13 May 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils | v | Deccan Chargers | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 16:00 14 May 2009 | (H) Royal Challengers Bangalore | v | Chennai Super Kings | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 14 May 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians | v | Rajasthan Royals | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 15 May 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Delhi Daredevils | OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein |
| 16:00 16 May 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Mumbai Indians | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
| 20:00 16 May 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Deccan Chargers | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
| 16:00 17 May 2009 | (H) Kings XI Punjab | v | Deccan Chargers | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
| 20:00 17 May 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals | v | Delhi Daredevils | OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein |
| 20:00 18 May 2009 | (H) Kolkata Knight Riders | v | Chennai Super Kings | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 19 May 2009 | (H) Delhi Daredevils | v | Royal Challengers Bangalore | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
| 16:00 20 May 2009 | (H) Rajasthan Royals | v | Kolkata Knight Riders | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 20:00 20 May 2009 | (H) Chennai Super Kings | v | Kings XI Punjab | Kingsmead, Durban |
| 16:00 21 May 2009 | (H) Mumbai Indians | v | Delhi Daredevils | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 21 May 2009 | (H) Deccan Chargers | v | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
Semi-Finals
| 20:00 22 May 2009 | tba | v | tba | Centurion Park, Pretoria |
| 20:00 23 May 2009 | tba | v | tba | The Wanderers, Johannesburg |
Finals
| 20:00 24 May 2009 | v | The Wanderers, Johannesburg | ||
Times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+5:30). Subtract 3.5 hours for local time in South Africa.
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