So, instead of taking rest at home and trying to get the spin right for the rest of the series in the year including the ones against England at home and the one against West Indies and later against Australia, he has decided to go ahead with the Mumbai Indian games for the CLT20 games.

The time has come where the board takes a strong stance, that is, if the player has missed a series before the CLT20 or the IPL because of an injury, he needs to give the lucrative tournament a miss as well, and rest enough to get the bearings right for the international series.

However, the problem is that the BCCI will never be doing such a thing to annoy the money churning franchises. Because it is not the international results but the money that BCCI only worries about!

The decision was taken at a Special General Meeting convened to resolve the matter after Modi’s counsel Mehmood Abdi pointed out last month that the panel did not have the BCCI General Body’s mandate.

The committee comprises the trio of Chirayu Amin, Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia.

“The committee had already got the BCCI’s approval in the Annual General Meeting but it was not recorded in the minutes of the meeting,” a BCCI source said after the meeting.

Abdi had said that BCCI forgot to re-constitute the Committee for the year 2010-2011 at its AGM held in September.

Modi’s camp had consistently opposed the nomination of Amin and Jaitley, both members of the IPL Governing Council when it was headed by Modi, citing bias.

Source : Times of India

The fourth edition of the IPL will be held one week after the Cricket World Cup ends and yet, there is a good chance that the BCCI may have to rethink the dates.

The reason for this is that the dates were announced based on the fact that the player auctions will be held in January 2011. However, with the case between Punjab/Rajasthan and the BCCI having gone to the High court, it is evident that the player auctions will not go ahead as planned.

What is funnier is that it has been reported that the auctions could be held during the World Cup.

World cup? You must be kidding. So here we have teams trying to focus their minds on the games that they have and there, on the other hand, a few of their players will be keeping a close eye on what they could potentially earn out of the deal with their new franchise.

Really, this is the silliest thing that BCCI could come up with in recent times – there should be some kind of restraint shown by them and not hog the limelight even during the World Cup.

The valuation, a part of a series on the top 200 sporting properties, was done by SportsPro, a UK-based magazine, that claims to be the “No. 1 international monthly publication for the sports industry” focussing on “the sponsorship and financing of sport, as well as marketing and management.”

The magazine’s July issue is centred around this top 200 list, which they say was arrived at after “months of analysis and close examination of statistics, trends and finances” puts the National Football League ($4.5 billion) at the top of the heap. The NFL is followed by Major League Baseball ($3.9 billion), the NBA ($3.35 billion) and Nascar ($1.9 billion) with the IPL in fifth place.

The study places the Ferrari F1 team (7th) at a value of $1.55 billion as the highest valued European team, followed by Manchester United Football Club (8th) at $1.495 billion.

Not surprisingly golf legend Tiger Woods ($1.25 billion) is the highest valued individual athlete property, followed by Jack Nicklaus ($1 billion). Golfers topped the list principally because they earn huge sums for designing courses, the magazine explained. The next highest athlete, in 88th place, was footballer David Beckham’s Beckham Brand Ltd at $ 375 million.