Suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi on Friday denied making bonus payment of one million Rand to Cricket South Africa chief Gerald Majola for agreeing to host the second edition of the T20 League in South Africa last year

Jaipur: The infighting in the Rajasthan Cricket Association has started showing its ugly face as supporters of the ousted President Sanjay Dixit locked the RCA office on Tuesday while Lalit Modi-led group has been protesting outside.

Johannesburg South African fast bowler Dale Steyn failed a drug test as a result of taking painkillers to recover from an injury during the second Indian Premier League, his cricket board said on Tuesday.

When he arrived, Sohail Tanvir took Twenty20 cricket by storm. Originally selected in place of the erratic Shoaib Akhtar for the Twenty20 World Cup in 2007, left-armer Tanvir impressed everyone by taking six wickets in six games.

London Cricket and Olympic need each other to spread wings and Twenty20 is the tailor-made format to achieve the common goal

India exhausted or just seeking excuses in ICC World Twenty20 and IPL.

Australia captain Riicky Ponting made a virtue of his decision to skip the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) in South Africa, saying he is "relaxed and rejuvenated" by forgoing the rewards to be picked from the Twenty20 tournament ahead of the long Ashes summer.

It has come and gone, and now that it is over, not everyone in South Africa is happy. Financially the Indian Premier League may be classed in the same category as a Bollywood smash hit and the least fancied side, the Deccan Chargers, won the final.

It was Adam Gilchirst's sensible and aggressive captaincy that changed the fortunes of the Deccan Chargers in IPL-II, Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi said on Tuesday.

On his team's debacle in the finals, Royal Challengers Bangalore owner Vijay Mallya has said that his team messed it up for themselves in the last four overs and handed over victory to the opponents, Deccan Chargers.