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Zee announces breakaway Indian Cricket League
New Delhi | April 03, 2007 9:08:46 PM IST
Zee Telefilms on Tuesday announced the formation of breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL) which would offer annual prize money of one million dollars. The league will be parallel to the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Addressing a press conference here, Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra said: "It troubles me that a country with more than a billion cricket fans and millions of cricket enthusiasts fares so poorly at the international stage". He said the league would initially be played in the twenty20 format. The Indian Cricket League, set up with a corpus of rupees one billion, will be launched later this year. The league will have six teams in the inaugural edition and each team will comprise of four foreign, two Indian and eight budding players. Chandra said each of the six teams would be coached by a former India player. The Indian Cricket League will be a joint effort of Essel Group and ILand FS. He said the Essel group also had the plan of setting up cricket academies and the BCCI was free to draw from the pool of talented players. The BCCI said it had received a communication from Chandra on the proposed league. "An appropriate decision will be taken by the Board," BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said in a media release. (ANI)
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