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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
To play a virtual Pakistan team in the final is an exciting experience: Abdul Razzaq
I have been a professional cricketer for a long time and have played against my compatriots on number of occasions in the English county. But to play a virtual Pakistan team in the final was an exciting experience.
If you see the line-up of the Lahore Badshahs you will find that I have played alongside almost every individual who has represented Pakistan in the last decade. On the plus side that meant that I knew the opposition very well and that knowledge came handy in preparing our game plan for the first final. Even when I came into bowl the last over, I exactly knew what I had to do to restrict the batsmen and despite bowling three wide balls I was confident of pulling through.
But we are professionals and we have to give our best for the team we are playing for. And I am happy that I could deliver the same both with the bat and the ball.
This was the first time that the Badshahs have lost a game in the second edition of the Indian Cricket League and apart from the win in the first final it also gives a psychological upper hand over them going into the second final in Hyderabad on Sunday. Add to that the vociferous crowd support that we receive in this Andhra Pradesh capital and you will understand why all of us are now pretty confident of bagging the coveted title.
But we can't be overconfident since we know that the Badshahs are known to raise their game every time they are down in the dumps and have time and again proved that they have the big match temperament needed to succeed at this level.
If you see the line-up of the Lahore Badshahs you will find that I have played alongside almost every individual who has represented Pakistan in the last decade. On the plus side that meant that I knew the opposition very well and that knowledge came handy in preparing our game plan for the first final. Even when I came into bowl the last over, I exactly knew what I had to do to restrict the batsmen and despite bowling three wide balls I was confident of pulling through.
But we are professionals and we have to give our best for the team we are playing for. And I am happy that I could deliver the same both with the bat and the ball.
This was the first time that the Badshahs have lost a game in the second edition of the Indian Cricket League and apart from the win in the first final it also gives a psychological upper hand over them going into the second final in Hyderabad on Sunday. Add to that the vociferous crowd support that we receive in this Andhra Pradesh capital and you will understand why all of us are now pretty confident of bagging the coveted title.
But we can't be overconfident since we know that the Badshahs are known to raise their game every time they are down in the dumps and have time and again proved that they have the big match temperament needed to succeed at this level.
The ICL India team players meet the Great Inspiring Khali
The ICL India team players meet the Great Inspiring KhaliMumbai, May 10, 2008: The robust new India story has trickled into the sporting world & is best exemplified by these two new sporting icons - one in the form of the Great Khali who made Indians believe that it is possible for an Indian to compete & win, amongst a galaxy of global wrestling icons & second in the form of the ICL India team that forced the cricket crazy nation to take notice of cricket talents & win against some of the best international names in the business, at the recently concluded ICL 20s World Series. An eventful Saturday afternoon today witnessed these two sporting champions - the Great Khali & the young ICL India team players, come together to spend some time & mutual admiration for each other.
In the pic (from LHS):ICL India team players - Stuart Binny, G. Vignesh, Ali Murtuza, Raviraj Patil, Khaleel Ibrahim & Syed Mohammad with the Great Khali in the centre.
Indian Cricket League 2008 season
The inaugural season for the Indian Cricket League will begin in October 2008 with 6 teams. The first tournament will be organized on a double round-robin basis in which each team will be playing the opposite team on home and away basis. The top four teams will reach the semi-finals and the final be played between the top teams. There will be a total of 20 matches for the entire season.
The Indian Cricket League
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a private cricket league that runs parallel to the existing cricket league managed by BCCI. At the moment, matches in the ICL follow the Twenty20 format, though there was a ODI (50 over) championship in January 2008. Matches are held at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Panchkula, near Chandigarh, Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad and Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. In the second edition the league has been expanded to eight teams, almost doubling the number of group stage games from 15 to 28.HistoryZee Telefilms (part of the Essel group, which is promoted by Subhash Chandra) bid for the telecast rights to the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Although the highest bid, it was unsuccessful. In 2004, Subhash Chandra again bid for telecast rights and ended up in an inconclusive court battle. He made another bid for the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy rights and once again lost. He responded by creating the ICL. “They denied us the cricket content,” says Himanshu Mody, business head of ICL and Zee’s sports, “so, we had to create our own content” . Zee Telefilms announced that it would partner infrastructure major IL&FS to create a new, ambitious cricket organisation, the Indian Cricket League (ICL) with prize money of one million US dollars in the initial edition for the winning team. The ICL was set up with a billion dollar Indian Rupee corpus, and was to initially comprise six teams playing Twenty20 cricket, with plans to expand to sixteen teams within three years and to eventually move to 50-over matches. These plans, if realised, will make ICL the richest professional league in India. On 24 July 2007, some famous international names were announced to have signed to play in the ICL, including Brian Lara [3]. Due to the unofficial nature of the league, most of the national cricket boards warned their players against joining it and as a result most of the international players who signed for the first edition were retired internationals, such as Brian Lara, Chris Cairns and Craig McMillan, or former players with little hope of breaking back into their national team, such as Chris Read and Daryl Tuffey. A notable exception was Imran Farhat, who chose to opt out of his Pakistan Central contract to sign with the League . Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad said he was not able to understand why the PCB would not allow its players to participate in the league and why it was threatening players with a lifetime ban[citation needed]. The PCB subsequently banned players involved in the ICL from playing domestic cricket, a move that prompted some players, notably Farhat and Taufeeq Umar, to threaten court action . The opposition to the league from most national cricket boards has continued into the league's second edition, with several players who were signed to play domestic cricket for teams in the English County Championship, including Shane Bond, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mushtaq Ahmed and Jason Gillespie being unable to fulfill their County Championship contracts because of their home counties cricket boards refusals to grant them the necessary paperwork to play in England .The first edition of the league commenced on 30 November 2007. The league consisted of six teams with the matches played at Panchkula, near Chandigarh. It concluded on 16 December 2007 with the Chennai Superstars winning the first title. A second edition which commenced on 9 March 2008 saw the league expanded to eight teams and matches being played at two further venues, Hyderabad and Gurgaon.
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is a private cricket league that runs parallel to the existing cricket league managed by BCCI. At the moment, matches in the ICL follow the Twenty20 format, though there was a ODI (50 over) championship in January 2008. Matches are held at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Panchkula, near Chandigarh, Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad and Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurgaon, near New Delhi. In the second edition the league has been expanded to eight teams, almost doubling the number of group stage games from 15 to 28.HistoryZee Telefilms (part of the Essel group, which is promoted by Subhash Chandra) bid for the telecast rights to the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Although the highest bid, it was unsuccessful. In 2004, Subhash Chandra again bid for telecast rights and ended up in an inconclusive court battle. He made another bid for the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy rights and once again lost. He responded by creating the ICL. “They denied us the cricket content,” says Himanshu Mody, business head of ICL and Zee’s sports, “so, we had to create our own content” . Zee Telefilms announced that it would partner infrastructure major IL&FS to create a new, ambitious cricket organisation, the Indian Cricket League (ICL) with prize money of one million US dollars in the initial edition for the winning team. The ICL was set up with a billion dollar Indian Rupee corpus, and was to initially comprise six teams playing Twenty20 cricket, with plans to expand to sixteen teams within three years and to eventually move to 50-over matches. These plans, if realised, will make ICL the richest professional league in India. On 24 July 2007, some famous international names were announced to have signed to play in the ICL, including Brian Lara [3]. Due to the unofficial nature of the league, most of the national cricket boards warned their players against joining it and as a result most of the international players who signed for the first edition were retired internationals, such as Brian Lara, Chris Cairns and Craig McMillan, or former players with little hope of breaking back into their national team, such as Chris Read and Daryl Tuffey. A notable exception was Imran Farhat, who chose to opt out of his Pakistan Central contract to sign with the League . Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad said he was not able to understand why the PCB would not allow its players to participate in the league and why it was threatening players with a lifetime ban[citation needed]. The PCB subsequently banned players involved in the ICL from playing domestic cricket, a move that prompted some players, notably Farhat and Taufeeq Umar, to threaten court action . The opposition to the league from most national cricket boards has continued into the league's second edition, with several players who were signed to play domestic cricket for teams in the English County Championship, including Shane Bond, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mushtaq Ahmed and Jason Gillespie being unable to fulfill their County Championship contracts because of their home counties cricket boards refusals to grant them the necessary paperwork to play in England .The first edition of the league commenced on 30 November 2007. The league consisted of six teams with the matches played at Panchkula, near Chandigarh. It concluded on 16 December 2007 with the Chennai Superstars winning the first title. A second edition which commenced on 9 March 2008 saw the league expanded to eight teams and matches being played at two further venues, Hyderabad and Gurgaon.
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