American Premier League (APL) Cricket

ICC keen to install IPL model in USA
Jay Mir, the CEO of American Sports and Entertainment Group. Inc is coming up with a mega-show this October. APL or American Premier League is an idea that will envelop the American nation in the mentioned month. However, APL is unsanctioned by ICC and it believes that the Rebel American League will cause …

6 teams shown below are expected to take part in the first event of American Premier League (APL 2009). Currently the following Players in the respective teams have confirmed their positions for the APL Premier League 2009;
Premium Pakistan

Moin Khan (Coach)
Inzamam Ul Haq (Captain)
Imran Nazir
Imran Farhat
Rana Naved
Toufeeq Umar
Abdul Razzaq
Shahid Nazir
Shabbir Ahmed
Humayun Farhat

Premium India
Premium Bengal
Andrew Shedlock (Coach)
Premium West Indies
Richie Richardson (Coach)
Premium World

John …

New Zealand Cricket has taken Sir Richard Hadlee’s APL connection with a pinch of salt. It is learnt that ICC and ECB have already shown resentment towards yet another unsanctioned league. (Read Rebel League-ICL). Cricket Australia is not going to be an APL zealot anyways. This casts a dubious shadow over the brainchild of Jay Mir.
To gain some credibility, Jay …

Come October 6th and America will be ignited with the splinters of a new sport. Yes, the South Asian community is hooked to cricket but by and large, the sport that has caught the imagination of commonwealth countries since long will be running on a virgin territory here. Staten Island in New York is all decked up. Already, a minor-league …

ICL tried to take away the sheen from cricket’s governing body and miserably failed. Yes, it did manage to sabotage ICC’s identity and hold a tourney of its own but it has all come flat within a couple of years. Already, this year’s venture has been scrapped owing to lack of funds.
Players have got to move though. If a deal …