posted Aug 23, 2007

I'd heard that Madras Heat was a name for one team. I think the 50 includes young indian league players who i've never heard of, plus lara, inzi, razzaq, yousuf.

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posted Aug 23, 2007

FYI..

there is a local ranji-league team from Hyderabad. Seven members of the team had quit and joined ICL. All of them are young, and talented. Here is the list:

1. Kaushik Reddy
2. Ambati Rayudu
3. Vinay Kumar
4. Ibrahim Khalil
5. Alfred Abslom
6. Indrasekhar Reddy
7. Shashank Nag

Interestingly, after their official joining of ICL in Mumbai earlier this week, they returned back to the home-town Hyderabad and attended a press conference. Quite understandably, they all expressed their dissatisfaction over the way the local board is administered: full of politics - null for talent.

BTW, I heard Chris Harris is going to join the league too. Chris Cairns and Nathan Astle on their way I guess.

Marvan Atapattu from Sri Lanka is a sure shot.

from Oz, I guess Dean Jones is a big name, not sure if there's any change of equation.

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posted Aug 23, 2007

that is more than 50% of a team.

So is the case with Bengal team. I heard a majority of the team joined ICL.

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posted Aug 23, 2007

From Saffers:

Lance Klusener (my favorite)
Nickie Boje

word is that John Buchanan maybe the Coach!

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posted Aug 23, 2007

Imran Farhat from Pakistan too!

Dinesh Mongia and RS Sodhi are two young local players. They got few chances to play for India in international arena, but couldn't make a mark.

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posted Aug 24, 2007

this draws parallels to the bodyline series. disappointed at inzy and yusuf but razzaq was upset at pcb. suprised no bangladesh players have signed. what about leverock ?

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posted Aug 29, 2007

It would be very interesting and worthy to see domestic cricket in India. With the young players signing up with ICL, cricket will take a new dimension in India.

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posted Oct 3, 2007

3 more world-class players that have signed up -

Glenn 'pigeon' McGrath
Brian 'awesome' Lara
Darren 'slightly better than brian' Maddy

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posted Oct 3, 2007

hahahahaaha - Darren Maddy !?! - i hear Udals coming out of retirement

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