The Opening ceremony of DLF IPL season 3 was scheduled to be held at Hyderabad but not the IPL has decided to shifts its opening to Mumbai. This is due to the Telengana issue, the committee has decided to shift it from Hyderabad to Mumbai.

They have also announced that only the location has been changed and it will still be Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers in the opening encounter.

Modi said “It remains Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders match but instead of Hyderabad, it would be held in Mumbai. The opening game, the opening ceremony and the opening gala dinner (on March 11) are very important for us. People from all over the world are coming and we are going to make sure that everything is in order. We don’t want to take any chances.”

He also made it clear that there will not be any changes in the other matches.

“There are no changes to other matches, everything looks fine. We have worked it out with the franchises and the teams and decided that match would be held in Mumbai,” he added.

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Sources in the Pakistan team revealed that hurt Pakistani cricketers have decided to ‘avoid’ the Indian Premier League (IPL) until Indo-Pak diplomatic ties don’t normalise.

The players who remained unsold in the third IPL auction held a meeting on Tuesday in Brisbane, where the team will play an ODI series against Australia. They have decided to ignore the event at least for the time being. This decision was taken by all the players unanimously. They are said to have agreed not to play in the IPL until bbilateral cricket ties resume between the two countries. The players felt that no franchise was willing to bid for them and they all felt that it was a planned move by the IPL to humiliate publicly.

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Chasing 316 to win the tie and finish the series with one match to go, India found themselves in trouble when they were at 23/2 before Gambhir (150 not out) and Virat Kohli (107) gave a good partnership stand of 224-runs. This injected a fresh life into the chase and then was completed with Dinesh Karthik’s (19 not out) company.

Gautam Gambhir slammed up his seventh century while Virat Kohli struck his maiden to script India’s series-clinching seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI on Thursday at the Eden Gardens.

India scored 317 runs by losing just 3 wickets and with 11 balls remaining.

Gautam Gambhir was declared man of the match.

Gambhir became the newest member of the 3000-run club. He faced 137 balls in his controlled innings, hitting 14 fours.

Kohli’s mature 114-ball knock was studded with 11 fours and a six.

Earlier, Upul Tharanga (118) hit his seventh ODI century and starred in a 126-run partnership with captain Kumar Sangakkara (60) as Sri Lanka posted 315 for six, the highest score at the venue till India overwhelmed it.

After Tharanga and Sangakkara had laid the perfect platform for a late charge, debutant Thissara Perera hit a 14-ball 31 to make the most of the batting powerplay and help the visitors cross the 300-mark.

Both the teams now move to Delhi for the fifth and final ODI on Sunday.

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