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New Zealand coach Andy Moles and national selector Glenn Turner here have already shrugged off the indifferent performances that by most of their players who took their part in the IPL.

“The nature of the beast applied which is the Twenty20 game is really  very hit and miss,” Turner said. He added that even  for net practice at the IPL was much better than “sitting at home in the winter and  doing nothing”.

Ross Taylor and Brendon McCullum found  greatly their form towards the end of the IPL, and Daniel Vettori was his  bead miserly self in his limited chances, but the  rest of the New Zealand players those  - including Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder and Scott Styris - were  really totally out-of-sorts held  in South Africa.

New Zealand have  so could had a better time of it  right after reaching England, posting a  right narrow win over Bangladesh and a  better more comfortable one over Ireland in the two warm-up matches  that so far.

Cape Town: Sachin’s innings that against Chennai Super Kings in just opening game of the DLF IPL Season 2 was entirely fantastic. Considering that the Newlands pitch and also about the weather, I personal think that his innings was more imperative. It obviously deserve the man of the match award cause. Given into the way the pitch has behaved for the next first six overs, Sachin had to just carry his bat all the way through the innings particularly after Sanath Jayasuriya was when dismissed.

frequently in a Twenty20 game the pitch and also the conditions don’t matter so much but Saturday was so different. There was malleable bounce and the ball was also stopping and coming. The CSK bowlers be supposed to have got wickets in just those conditions but they did not get so enough. MS Dhoni had opened the bowling with Thilan Tushara and Manpreet Singh Gony hoping just that the helpful conditions would thus make help even his lesser bowlers. In theory, he was right but the reality is that everything went against him. His batsmen batted when the conditions were better and yet failed to get to the target.

It was so special match for player both MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar. It was that moment Dhoni won the Twenty20 World Cup and next it was here in the South Africa that Sachin Tendulkar scored more runs than anybody else to take India to road to the World Cup final in 2003.

ESPN Star Sports (ESS) finally awarded with long-term global television production channel partner for the very awaited tournament Champions League T20.

By production house setup, ESS would telecast this tournament in most popular High Definition (HD) format, thus by history feed it would be the first HD telecast for any sporting event in cricket history

Bu the Earlier, ESS also had won the top exclusive global commercial rights of these league for around 10 years at $975 million.

ESS in this tournament will use 34 cameras those by each venue to cover overall matches. It would include those many angles such a aerial views with the Fly cameras, a boundary side field camera to the showcase fielding and also a new mid-wicket camera position to the highlight

“This would be the most highest number of cameras whichever be used to get cover other any multi venue cricket tournament to date,” ESS said in johansburg.

Australian cricketer Brad Hodge will soon be joining Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkotta Knight Riders in the Twenty 20 cricket of IPL.

Brad Hodge went back to Australia as a replacement of Michael Clarke as he was injured. As per the sources he will soon be joining the team and would play up the coming match for Kolkottas’ knight riders.

“He is coming back but I cannot say when he will reach the city,” Joy Bhattacharya, the team manager of the Shahrukh’s team said.

Though, some other sources said that he will only be able to join the team by Friday to play the league matches of Indian premier League.

The departure of Hodge was due to the unavailability of Clarke for the series against West Indies there by leaving no options for the selectors to recall him from the money mine in India.

But after some time Clarke confirmed that he would be available for the series against West Indies there by again making room for Hodge to mine the gold in IPL.

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Something doesn’t quite smell like team spirit here: From Mohali, home to a team that has played two games and lost two so far, comes a bizarre tale of discrimination within the ranks that might not help their cause.

According to sources, a bunch of players in the Mohali squad, mostly juniors and not among those picked for the first couple of games, were moved out of the posh Taj hotel and into the less fancy Maya Palace some days ago.

Why? Well, there are two versions. One says it was to save escalating costs in any way possible (which doesn’t make sense given the huge monies spent so far). The second comes from a team official, who said it was only for a day, to accommodate the Mohali-team promoters and guests at the Taj on the day Mohali played Chennai. A bunch of players in the Mohali squad, mostly juniors and not among those picked for the first couple of games, were moved out of the posh Taj hotel and into the less fancy Maya Palace some days ago.

Team manager Sachin Bajaj maintained that all the players were always at the Taj, but the Press contacted the Maya Palace and learnt that at least five or six players (who were named to us) have been at the Maya Palace for the last few days. Players confirmed this.

It is believed that after some protests and a rethink on the part of the team management, the other players will be moved back to the Taj, but this part is as yet officially unconfirmed. “We were moved out but I think we’ll be moved back,” a player told Press, refusing to say more for fear of getting into trouble.

Whatever the reason, this ‘discrimination’ isn’t restricted to Mohali alone. In a couple of high-profile teams, the higher profile players have single room while lesser known players have been asked to share. Elsewhere, some players are flying economy while others get business class tickets.

Logically, this is bound to cause resentment at what could be viewed as second-class treatment for some and, in any case, is alien to the concept of “team”.

When a player plays for India, the BCCI treats him the same way — as an India player, irrespective of whether he is a Tendulkar, (who’s been around 20 years) or a rookie Piyush Chawla. He gets the same air-ticket (business class), the same room (a single), the same DA and the same official perks.

When players play for their Ranji team, their state associations treat them the same way. They travel together (unless it’s at their own expense) and invariably share rooms, with only the captain being entitled to single accommodation and often choosing not to take it.

This is the inaugural IPL event and India’s first exposure to a private franchise. It will set a precedent for how things happen in future. Team bonding - generally speaking too, but definitely in units already made up of a hodge-podge of people from different countries, cultures and credos — is going to be vital for a team to succeed. Discrimination of any sort, for any reason, will not help anyone’s cause.