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IPL verdict effect, Champions League T20 discontinued

  • The Champions League Twenty20 tournament, run since 2009 by the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa, has been discontinued with immediate effect because of lack of interest.
  • The 2015 edition, which would have been the seventh and was scheduled for September and October, has been cancelled because of the tournament’s “limited public following”, organisers said in a news release on Wednesday.
  • Launched by the three cricket boards in 2008, the competition offered a highly lucrative prize pool of $6 million with $2.5 million going to the winners.
  • It brought together teams from the India Premier League, Australia’s Big Bash League, South Africa’s Ram Slam T20 Challenge and Caribbean Premier League along with other qualifiers.
  • The inaugural event was cancelled after the death of 164 people in coordinated attacks on Mumbai in November 2008, however, and the tournament failed to gain any real traction thereafter.
  • The Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings were the most successful teams in the competition after they both won it twice with the Super Kings securing what will be the final title in Bangalore last year.

India Whitewash Zimbabwe

  • India skipper Ajinkya Rahane on Tuesday applauded his team for playing as a unit, saying that every member of the side contributed in the 3-0 whitewash against Zimbabwe in the ODI series.
  • Despite a sloppy start, Kedar Jadhav (105 not out) and Manish Pandey (71) put on a crucial 144-run stand to help India post 276 for five and then eventually win the match by 83 runs.
  • Rayudu was awarded the Man-of-the-Series award for his 124 not out and 41 runs in the first and second ODIs, respectively.
  • Man-of-the-Match Jadhav said it was a great feeling to get his maiden century.

Lodha committee & IPL verdict

  • The Chennai Super Kings are undoubtedly the most successful and popular team in the Indian Premier League.
  • They win titles, have a fanatical fan following and some of the league’s finest players. They also have Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
  • The Rajasthan Royals, on the other hand, are the small-budget team that inspired many dreams. They belied their underdog status year after year.
  • They would start well and then they would struggle. But they gave us a Sanju Samson; a Pravin Tambe; a Swapnil Asnodkar. Shane Warne steered them in the early years and of course, at the heart of this all, is Rahul Dravid
  • But after the Lodha commission suspended their owners (and in essence, the teams themselves until a new owner is found) for two years, their future and perhaps that of the IPL itself is mired in a haze of uncertainty and frustration.
  • The BCCI, however, still saw the money rolling in as did the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals and that was enough for them to ignore the gathering dark clouds. Srinivasan — the then BCCI president — had a simple parameter for success: money.
  • Justice Lodha’s verdict is damning not just for the owners of the franchises but also for the BCCI.
  • The Lodha panel spoke to journalists, editors, and anyone else who had a stake in the matter and arrived at a decision that really was the BCCI’s to take; a decision they should have taken instead of giving Gurunath Meiyappan the clean chit or allowing the investigation against Raj Kundra to stop once it transferred to Rajasthan.
  • All great achievements require time but in its rush to attain greatness, the BCCI and the owners ignored the rules that they themselves had put in place. And truth to be told, in their refusal to act, they cheated not just the fans but the game itself.

IPL verdict: csk,royals suspended

  • A Supreme Court-appointed committee suspended former champions Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals from the Indian Premier League for two years on Tuesday as it presented its verdict on the spot-fixing and betting scandal that hit the T20 tournament in 2013.

  • ICC chief N Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra were suspended from any type of cricketing activity for life after they were found guilty of betting in the tournament. Srinivasan was earlier restricted by the court from running for another term as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India owing to a conflict of interest. His company India Cements held a stake in the Chennai franchise.

  • Lodha was appointed head of the sentencing panel in January after the Supreme Court had found Royals’ co-owner Kundra and CSK’s Meiyappan guilty of betting on the outcome of matches in 2013.

  • The committee also proposed to impose sanctions on India Cement’s franchise by suspending it from the league for two years. “No action was taken by India Cements against Mr Meiyappan,” he said.

  • The apex court had held that the allegation of betting against Meiyappan and Kundra stood proved and set up the three-member committee of its retired judges to determine the punishment for Meiyappan, who was the CSK team Principal and Kundra.

  • The 2013 IPL season was mired in controversy after police launched legal proceedings against several officials and cricketers, including former Test fast bowler S Sreesanth, for illegal betting and spot-fixing.

  • The hugely popular Chennai Super Kings are the most successful team in the IPL, having won the tournament in 2010 and 2011, and finished runners-up in 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

  • Rajasthan Royals won the inaugural event in 2008 under the captaincy of Australian spin legend Shane Warne, but have failed to make the final since then.

Sania’s another achievement

  • This is where it all began for me 12 years ago. In 2003, I won the girls’ doubles title (with Alisa Alisa Kleybanova of Russia). Saturday’s win was, in many ways, a fulfilment of my evolution as a tennis player. Prior to this victory, I had won the French Open, the Australian Open and the US Open (at the senior level). The only trophy missing was Wimbledon. Besides, until last (Saturday) night, I had not won a Grand Slam title in women’s doubles.

  • Despite being down, Martina and I were very positive and were thoroughly enjoying the experience of performing on Centre Court. We kept reminding each other that it was just a question of one break and we did manage to break back. That shifted the momentum in our favour. It is moments like these that make all the pain and hard work seem worthwhile.

Sania’s Slams Year Event Championship Partner

  • 2015 Women’s Doubles Wimbledon Martina Hingis
  • 2014 Mixed Doubles US Open Bruno Soares
  • 2012 Mixed Doubles French Open Mahesh Bhupathi
  • 2009 Mixed Doubles Australian Open Mahesh Bhupathi

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Sania had won the women’s doubles junior Wimbledon championship with Russian partner Alisa Kleybanova in 2003.

Djokovic wins Wimbledon

  • Novak Djokovic again revealed the true depth of his steely core to grind Wimbledon idol Roger Federer’s hopes of a record eighth title into Centre Court’s baseline dust on Sunday.
  • With a sell-out crowd urging Federer to scale the same dizzy heights he reached in eclipsing Britain’s Andy Murray in Friday’s semi-final, Djokovic shrugged off losing a stomach-churning second-set tiebreak to prevail 7-6(1) 6-7(10) 6-4 6-3.
  • After swiping away a forehand winner to end a two hour 56 minute contest that crackled into life midway through but then fizzled out, top seed Djokovic roared to the grey London sky before kneeling down and nibbling some of the cherished turf.
  • For the second year running in the All England Club’s

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