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The all said and talked about series IPL is slated to start from April 18th, but the interest shown from the public has been a concern for BCCI as there is less than 50 percentage of tickets being sold till now, but they are sure that it will pick up as the tournament goes on. Sachin, kumble will miss their first couple of matches bcoz of their injury concerns.

Below is the schedule of matches with first encounter between Bangalore team lead by Dravid and Kolkata team lead by Ganguly.

April 18: Bangalore v Kolkata at Bangalore
April 19: Mohali v Chennai at Mohali and Delhi v Jaipur at Delhi
April 20: Mumbai v Bangalore at Mumbai; Kolkata v Hyderabad at Kolkata
April 21: Jaipur v Mohali at Jaipur
April 22: Hyderabad v Delhi at Hyderabad
April 23: Chennai v Mumbai at Chennai
April 24: Hyderabad v Jaipur at Hyderabad
April 25: Mohali v Mumbai at Mohali
April 26: Bangalore v Jaipur at Bangalore; Chennai v Kolkata at Chennai
April 27: Mumbai v Hyderabad at Mumbai; Mohali v Delhi at Mohali
April 28: Bangalore v Chennai at Bangalore
April 29: Kolkata v Mumbai at Kolkata
April 30: Delhi v Bangalore at Delhi.
May 1: Hyderabad v Mohali at Hyderabad; Jaipur v Kolkata at Jaipur
May 2: Chennai v Delhi at Chennai.
May 3: Hyderabad at Bangalore at Hyderabad; Mohali v Kolkata at Mohali
May 4: Mumbai v Delhi at Mumbai; Jaipur v Chennai at Jaipur
May 5: Bangalore v Mohali at Bangalore
May 6: Chennai v Hyderabad at Chennai
May 7: Mumbai v Jaipur at Mumbai
May 8: Delhi v Chennai at Delhi; Kolkata v Bangalore at Kolkata
May 9: Jaipur v Hyderabad at Jaipur
May 10: Bangalore v Mumbai at Bangalore; Chennai v Mohali at Chennai

The most talked out Series so many said that will not be big hit, may be its a hit or not but the performance of players is simply superb and the commitment shown on the field is second to none, does this has something to do with the The Indian Cricket League announced a prize-money corpus of Rs 3.24 crore, dont think so..bcoz BCCI and ICC are giving even more than the prize money of 3.24 crores, its the passion with which the teams in ICL played is really impressive.

The way tournament was organised and above all the commitment and hard work put in has really paid off.To mention few impressive knocks and performances during the series by wicketkeeper I Khaleel,A Murtaza, Vignesh, Binny, Jhunjhunwala have done really well and made an impression on the series.

ICL India XI squad:
S Abbas Ali, L Ablish, AN Ahmed, STR Binny, RS Gavaskar, AA Jhunjhunwala, wicketkeeper I Khaleel, T Kumaran, A Murtaza, RP Patil, SV Saravanan, captain R Sathish, TP Sudhindra, J Syed Mohammed, G Vignesh

A series level win against the SA will help India going into a busy schedule and all important IPL around the corner, thanks to the picth and stand in captain Dhoni, the way he handeled his bowlers and beautiful batting disply by Ganguly followed by Laxman has definetly helped India win the match with it level the series.

Parterner ship that needs a mention is the 10th wicket stand between Ishanth and Sreesanth has helped India to extend the lead to above sixty, this is the best partnership for India for 10th wicket.After a dismal display in second test and fitness problems with sachin, kumble out for the match this is a good display by Indian team.Good display of all round skills by sehwag who took three wickets and Harbhajan took seven for the match and an inspirational leader helped the matters and level the series.

Man of the match: Ganguly
Man of the series: Harbhajan.

Shoaib was banned for 5 years by pakistan board a disciplinary committee of the PCB for violating the players' code of conduct. Legspinner Danish Kaneria, also charged and was seriously reprimanded by PCB.He will be ineligible to play in Pakistan or to play for Pakistan anywhere else in the world.

Shoaib said that he will challenge the decision and said that he was very upset by the decision and said that he will be back and will play for pakistan.The board had offered contracts to 15 players, based on a formula that took into account their performance, but Shoaib was demoted to a retainership from the Category A contract he held last year, this being a sign of the future course of action by PCB.

The action has been taken after his public comments on PCB about the double standards the board has shown in awarding the contracts to the players in January Shoaib demoted from the top category to a retainership.