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IPL legal team to work on Pak players’ dues

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has asked its legal advisers to look into the demands of the Pakistani cricketers regarding their payment row with their respective franchise. Sources in the management company that is representing the players said that the IPL commissioner Lalit Modi had conveyed the matter of dues of the Pakistani players to [...]

IPL shift to support Pakistan stance: PCB

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) hopes that shifting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to any other country will support its view that terrorism can hit cricket anywhere in the world. “We have been saying that security is a problem around the world and a terrorist attempt could be made in any country. The decision [...]

IPL 2009 to be postponed?

There seems to be some apprehension on the IPL season 2 that will be held in India. After the terror attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan, Indian Govt. has asked the Indian Cricket Board to reschedule IPL dates as it clashes with general election dates, so that adequate security can be provided for all [...]

Pakistan players want compensation for IPL ban

The Pakistani cricket players are currently in the process of hammering out the terms of the contract to be signed with the PCB. However they want that the contracts should reflect and make compensations for the financial loss that is suffered by the players because of the Indian Premier League ban.
Via Cricket360

IPL terminates contracts of six Pakistan players

Six Pakistanis – Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt and Mohammed Hafeez – already have a reason to feel aggrieved, after their franchises opted to terminate their contracts. With players from across the border being denied permission to play in the IPL, four other contracts – Umar Gul, (Kolkata), Misbah-ul-Haq (Bangalore), [...]

Franchises disappointed with Pak players’ absence from IPL

Pakistani cricketers’ absence from the second season of the Indian Premier League has left the affected franchises disappointed with their top officials saying that the Twenty20 event would be poorer without players from here. The Pakistan foreign affairs office yesterday barred the the country’s cricketers from travelling to India for IPL because of “security concerns”.
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Pakistan bars players from IPL

Pakistan has barred its cricketers from competing in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament in the wake of last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai. “We have been informed by the foreign ministry today that the situation is not conducive for Pakistan cricketers to travel to India,” Sports Minister Aftab Jilani told the Associated Press on [...]

Pakistan players get IPL clearance from ministry

Pakistan sports minister Aftab Jilani said on Friday that the ministry has no objection to its cricketers competing in the Indian Premier League.
Via IHT

IPL’s Pakistan players stare at losses

Pakistani cricketers associated with the Indian Premier League (IPL) fear that they might not get their dues from the cash-rich Twenty20 league because of the strained relations between the two neighbouring countries, a newspaper reported here on Friday.
Via CricketNext

Kaneria gets highest base price among Pak IPL hopefuls

Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, who did not feature in the inaugural Indian Premier League, has fetched the highest base price among his compatriots for the IPL second edition players’ auction to be held on February 6.
Via PTI