Thursday, 20 November 2008


ICL World Series - India v Pakistan After the enormous success of the second edition of the ICL, a bigger and better ICL World Series gets underway in Ahmedabad from November 23।








Zimbabwe will undertake one of their most important home series of all times when they host a full-strength Sri Lankan side, boasting of such stars as captain Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and the spin wizards Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis.

The five-match ODI series starts November 20 and Zimbabwe, who have recently lost to such teams as Kenya and Uganda, will be hoping for a much-improved performance to keep their ICC ODI status।

After the enormous success of the second edition of the ICL, a bigger and better ICL World Series gets underway in Ahmedabad from November 23. The four teams involved are ICL India, ICL Pakistan, ICL World and ICL Bangladesh, and Pakistan will start favourites after the dominating performance of Lahore Badshahs in the main series. The prize fund is Rs 2.74 crores with the winners standing to gain Rs 1.25 crore, while the runners-up will get Rs 75 lakh in cash. Inzaman-ul Haq leads the ICL Pakistan team, Chris Harris leads ICL World, Habibul Bashar leads ICL Bangladesh and Rajagopal Sathish is the captain of ICL India.