It has been announced that Manish Pandey has been hit with just a four-match ban by the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council after the player had been found guilty of violating the rules for uncapped Indian players.
As a result, the highly-promising middle-order batsman from Karnataka will now have to sit out the first four games of the fourth edition of the IPL 4 for his franchise, the Pune Warriors, with the tournament set to finally get under way at the start of April.
Pandey, who played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise during the previous two competitions, was found guilty of asking a franchise for more money than uncapped Indian players were entitled to, with the limit being set at Rs 20 lakh.
However, the player should be thankful that he has only been banned for four matches, as last year Indian international Ravindra Jadeja was suspended from the entire tournament having been found guilty of the same offence.
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Kings XI Punjab have decided to replace injured Stuart Broad and Dimitri Mascarenhas with Ryan McLaren a South African all-rounder, ahead of the start of the fourth season of the Indian Premier league competition which starts next month.
The two England players were both forced to withdraw from IPL 4 due to injury, with Stuart Broad having injured his side while representing his country in the World Cup , while Hampshire’s Dimitri Mascarenhas is suffering from an Achilles’ tendon problem.
Ryan McLaren, who has played one-day and Twenty20 international Cricket for the Proteas, represented the Mumbai Indians in last year’s tournament and was approached by his new franchise on the weekend to inquire as to his availability for this season, which gets under way at the start of next month.
As no one opted to sign him during the January player auctions which took place in Bangalore, McLaren will only cost the Kings XI Punjab the base rate of $100,000.
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After Akon, Shahrukh Khan is ready to work with another Hollywood singer Shakira. Shahrukh will be seen shaking his legs with Shakira for his IPL 4 team’s music video. Shahrukh’s KKR (Kolkata Knight Riders) has not performed well in last IPL, but this time to charge his team he has roped in Shakira. Salim - Suleiman are composing the song for the video.
Shahrukh met Shakira at the Fifa World Cup in South Africa where Shakira sang Waka Waka.
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Post the success of Dabangg, last year Sajid-Wajid are certainly the most 'Wanted' composers in tinsel-town. The duo has now been roped in to compose the theme song of the forthcoming IPL 4 event.
The theme song has been sung by Wajid himself and is called 'Dhum Dhadaka'.The beats have a lot of rhythm.They have also used the trademark horn.
A music video featuring the hosts of IPL 4 will also be shot on April 3.
The track is surely set to become a chartbuster once IPL 4 action kicks off on April 8.
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New Zealand pace bowler Tim Southee has signed to play for the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket competition this year, assistant coach Steve Rixon said today.
Injuries have depleted the defending champions' bowling stocks so they have moved to shore them up by signing Southee, 22, who took 18 wickets at 17.33 during the one-day World Cup on the subcontinent.
Chennai are coached by former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, while Rixon, a former New Zealand coach, is the fielding coach and current New Zealand international Scott Styris is on their playing roster.
"It's good to have (Southee) on board, especially coming out of such a great recent tournament (at the World Cup)," Rixon told Radio Live today.
"It's an absolute bonus for us at the moment to be able to get our hands on such a quality player.
"Tim's recent form over there (at the World Cup) indicates that he handles those conditions beautifully."
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