The Cricket Board on cleared the deck for ex-ICL players, who have been granted amnesty, to take part in the third edition of the Indian Premier League with a cap on their payment being a maximum of Rs 20 lakhs.
The decision to allow the ICL players to join the mainstream was taken by the BCCI’s [...]

Yousuf has claimed that he has “resigned” from the ICL after he decided last month that his priority was to play for Pakistan. Recently PCB announced it was willing to talk to players who leave the ICL before the end of May and consider their cases for an international return on an individual basis.
“I spoke to [...]

In a surprise decision, the Indian Cricket Board on Wednesday agreed to lift ban on players associated with the rebel ICL if they severed their links with the Subhash Chandra-owned League.
BCCI President Shashank Manohar said the decision was taken after some ICL players and their support staff met the Board members and admitted committing mistake [...]

The ‘rebel’ Indian Cricket League’s application for approval and the implication of the Lahore terror attack on the Sri Lankan players would top the agenda in the two-day ICC Executive Board meeting starting here on Friday.
Apart from these two important issues, the Board would also receive a report on cricket in Zimbabwe from a task [...]

Merely ending his contract with the rebel Indian Cricket League will not be enough for Mohd Yousuf to return to the Pakistan team as the PCB has made it clear that the senior batsman will have to give certain “guarantees” before becoming eligible for national selection. 
The conditions include that Yousuf terminate his ICL contract, give [...]

The BCCI’s insistence on giving a cold shoulder to any player associated with the Indian Cricket League has infuriated the media in Hamilton which has described former Board secretary Niranjan Shah as a “travelling goon” for his comments against ICL’s Kiwi recruits.
“India – great team, shame about the Board they are representing” — read the [...]

 
 When Babe Ruth signed a whopping contract for the New York Yankees on the eve of the Great Depression he was asked what he thought about earning more than the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover: “What’s Hoover gotta do with it? I had a better year than he did,” the Babe said. But [...]