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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Gautam Gambhir will lead Delhi Daredevils in the next month’s Champions League Twenty 20 and also the captain for IPL 2010 with Dinesh Karthik as his Deputy. This decision has been taken as Virender Sehwag stepped down from captaincy wanting to focus on his batting. Sehwag is currently recovering from a shoulder injury and is not included in the Champions Trophy that begins in South Africa on Tuesday.

Sehwag said “I would like to thank GMR [the Delhi franchise owners] for their understanding in accepting my request to step down. Personally, I would like to concentrate on my own batting and contribute to the team.”

The 30-year-old Sehwag welcomed the franchise’s decision to appoint Gambhir as his replacement as he felt his long-time Delhi and India opening partner had shown great leadership abilities in the past. Gambhir has an aggressive and thinking mind and brought the same attributes to his captaincy when Delhi won the Ranji Trophy under his leadership in 2007, and during the second edition of the IPL, when he was in charge during the few games that Sehwag sat out.

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