Dishtracking

Indiantelevision.com Team

(10 March 2008 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Intelenet beat Percept to win the Zee Super Sixes Corporate Cricket Challenge and a trip to Sri Lanka to watch India play against the host at a one-day match in April.

National carrier Air India presented the prize-winning tickets to the eight members of the winning team.

Zee Sports will telecast highlights of the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals on 16 March 2008.

The tournament saw participation from International players like Aravinda Desilva, Romesh Kaluwitharana, Lance Klusener, Andre Adams, Mohammed Azharuddin and Vinod Kambli.

A special exhibition match Indian Telly Squad v/s Best of the Rest was played between television stars and the best of the players from the tournament.

The television stars who graced the occasion included Manav Viz, Naman Shaw, Himanshu Malhotra, Pieyush Chopra, Jai Soni, Jatin Shaw and Karan Vir Sood.

Indiantelevision.com Team

(10 March 2008 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: The second round of the Indian Premier League's (IPL) players auction takes place tomorrow (11 March).

18 foreign players, including Ashwell Prince and Mohammed Yousuf who were not selected by any franchise the first time around, will be up for grabs.

The other players who will be auctioned include Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez from Pakistan, Ross Taylor, Peter Fulton, Jamie How, Jeetan Patel, Chris Martin, Kyle Mills, James Franklin from New Zealand, Brad Hodge, Shane Watson, James Hopes and Luke Pomersbach from Australia.

In the first round, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Andrew Symonds went for over a million dollars. The interesting thing about Tuesday's auction is that apart from Emerging Media, which owns the Jaipur franchise, the other parties have spent most of their alloted money. Chennai only has $24,000 left to spend while Jaipur has over a million dollars still left. Reliance which owns Mumbai Indians only has a little over $50,000 left.

The franchisees can buy more foreign players from outside the list of 18. However, the teams will have to inform the IPL about the players they are targetting, and the organisers will then negotiate their base price and try to secure the no-objection certificates from their home boards.