More bad news poring in for the Indian cricket as cricketer YuvrajSingh has been diagnosed with cancer reportedly. He isundergoing chemotherapy in the United States. Yuvraj Singh has been the star player for team India cricket and helping to win the world cup. Yuvraj Sing has been the captain for Pune Warriors and was likely to miss out on IPL season 5. Now with his cancer detection, situation looks serious not just for Indian team but IPL as well.

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We hope for a speedy recovery for Yuvraj Sing and to see him back in action as soon as possible. You can reach out to Yuvraj Sing on Twitter click here

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Sahara India ended its 11-year-old financial ties with the BCCI and also pulled out of the IPL by withdrawing from Pune Warriors’ ownership just hours before the players auction for the fifth edition.Unfazed by the surprise development, the IPL authorities went ahead with the auction, saying that no written communication had come from Sahara about their pullout.

Sahara Group chief Subroto Roy defended their decision to part ways with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) alleging the governing body of being uptight while applying the rules of the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL). “…after an 11-year journey as sponsors, we can say with surety that cricket has become very rich. Many rich people are there to support cricket with a strong will to do so. So, with absolute peace of mind we can exit from cricket under BCCI and are exiting with a heavy heart,” a Sahara statement reads.“It was an emotional decision for us to start this sponsorship but our emotions were never appreciated and many genuine situations were not given due consideration at all,” the statement reads.

Unfazed by the surprise development, the IPL authorities went ahead with the auction, saying that no written communication had come from Sahara about their pullout.

So now what remains to be seen is will IPL season 5 have Pune Warriors playing or will it now be without the team. More interestingly, the new stadium awaits its first T20 but looking at current things, it looks unlikely that they will get any matches or viewers at the stadium.

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DLF IPL Auction 2012 Live, on saturday , February 4 at 10:45 AM on MAXChannel India.

In the player auction of IPL T20 each team can spend $2 million in the event meant for players not picked up in last year’s auction. The exceptions are Bangalore and Pune, which have already spent some money retaining their respective ‘replacements’, Chris Gayle and Sourav Ganguly.

As many as 144 players, including Indian Test batsman VVS Laxman, pacer S Sreesanth and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, will go under the hammer when the players auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League is held in Bangalore on February 4.

We are likely to see all the celebrity team owners at the IPL auction venue and would be a good tusel to see how main players are retained and how more costly players are bought.

The Kochi Tusker players are a good bunch and would be a interesting auction to watch for. With the current mood of cricket fans being down after thrashing from Australia, IPL should be a good bait to get back the cricket frenzy mood for all Indian cricket fans.

Pakistan players are not going to be a part of the IPL auction and all of them are going to miss the season 5 of IPL T20 to be held in India in the year 2012.

The auction will be conducted by Richard Madley, a professional auctioneer from England who has conducted each of the previous IPL player auctions. The proceedings will be broadcast live by IPL Indian broadcaster Sony Set Max. The opening match of IPL 2012 will take place on 4 April 2012 in Chennai. The IPL Auction will be held in the Mysore Hall, Royal Gardenia Hotel, Bengaluru, on 4 February 2012. Proceedings will commence at 11:00 am sharp.

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Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh is unlikely to play in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League due to the ongoing treatment of his non-malignant lung tumour.

Yuvraj is currently in the United States for treatment of his tumour and once it is removed, the recuperation process will start.

“Yuvraj went to UK and from there has travelled to the United States for an advanced treatment,” said a source.

“The oncologists who will be treating him in the US will take a call on whether he would undergo surgery or any other form of treatment. But that’s for sure, he won’t be playing in the IPL.”

The tumor is situated between the lungs and the heart and so operating it “will not be easy”, the source suggested.

“The Indian doctors have told Yuvraj’s family that the operation of this tumor won’t be easy. If it can heal with medicine, nothing like it.”

It has been tough going for Yuvraj since his Man of the Series performance in India’s World Cup victory last year.

An injury kept him out of the tour of the West Indies and his tour of England was cut short by a finger injury sustained during the Nottingham Test.

The last time Yuvraj played competitive cricket was the Tests against West Indies last November.

Official site provides news, scorecards, videos and pictures. Free live streaming is provided during the matches. The official website is not updated on regular basis . Currently the homepage sports a very old data including the match details of last year – stating – Chennai Super Kings won by 58 runs – Chennai Super Kings are 2011 DLF IPL champions!

The official IPL T20 website has a announcement section which seems to be updated regularly.

The latest announcement being – RCB sign Gayle on for two seasons and Pragyan Ojha moves to Mumbai Indians

The news about the schedule and IPL T20 fixtures for the year 2012 – season 5 is available online – IPL 2012 to feature 76 matches

But we all look forward to the Player Auction 2012 for IPL T20 year 2012 season 5 details are listed here – IPL 2012 PLayer Auction to be held on Feb 4

So lets look forward to an exciting season for the year 2012 – season 5 for IPL

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As the season 5 of DLF IPL T20 starts, a lot of discussions will start about the cheerleaders.

Each team has its own cheerleaders and Sahara Pune warriors started a trend with its own unique cheerleaders with Indian cultured dressed cheerleaders for IPL T20.

Everyone is eager to see new pictures of cheerleaders and here I will try and get the right links where the latest and updated cheerleaders pictures for IPL T20 can be found especially for season 5 – 2012.

So keep watching this space for all the latest updates of IPL T20 cheerleaders

We will try a bring picture gallery of more glamorous pictures of cheerleaders than this one. We will build picture gallery of DLF IPL cheerleaders

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) DLF IPL T20 5 2012  Match Schedule & Fixture, Time Table

MCA had appointed Hopkins Architects to design a MCA Pune International Cricket Centre with 44,000 seat stadium in Pune just few hours from financial city Mumbai. Earlier, Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium was being considered for refitting the stadium for the city of Pune, but as stadium was owned by Pune Municpal Corporation, conflict arosed which led the decision to built the brand new stadium for the city of Pune.

The cost of building the stadium would be around 300 Crore Rupees or $65 Million USD. The stadium would be built in the area of 125,000m^2.

Sumedha Earth Movers commenced the levelling and excavation work on the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) international centre at Village Gahunje in 2009.

The work on phase one of the Rs 300 crore Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, which is being built near Gahunje village, has been completed. The international stadium, the work for which began in 2009, was completed in April this year but owing to various delays in getting permissions and technical glitches, the work eventually concluded under a revised contract in December.

MCA president Ajay Shirke said, “Under phase one, we will have a seating capacity of 44,000 people. The seating arrangement in the stadium is such that all the spectators, irrespective of the stands they are seated, will have an unobstructed view of the entire playing field. We have kept the minutest details in mind so that the stadium is a viewer-friendly venue.” Shirke said that of the Rs 207 crore that was promised by Sahara, a total of two installments of Rs 67 crore and 41 crore have been released. “Further payments will be made as and when the stadium is completed and handed over,” he said.

Shirke said the proposal to host IPL (Indian Premier League) matches came up for discussion at the recent IPL governing council meeting. The committee, however, proposed that first class matches should be held before hosting international and IPL matches to gauge the playing surface at the venue.

“We decided to host the first class matches first and bagged an opportunity to host the semi-final between Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh from December 21,” said Shirke.

The game, which was originally to be played in Ratnagiri, will now be played at the new stadium.

The work on the second phase of the stadium will begin from June 2012 and is likely to be completed by the end of the year. The second phase will see the expansion of the east and west stands. As many as 90 corporate boxes will be built in the stadium. The 1.25 lakh sq feet stadium will be the first stadium in the country to have a special, quick-drying outfield.

The home matches of IPL’s Pune Warriors will be played in the upcoming edition of the league. The total capacity of the stadium will be 52,000 with the grand stand alone accommodating 10,000 spectators. The road leading to the stadium will be completed by February 15.

The dates for year 2012 were recently announced by BCCI

The season five – 2012-  of the Indian Premier League (IPL), comprising nine teams and 76 matches, will begin and end in Chennai, with the opening match on April 4 and the final on May 27. The teams will play each other at home and away during a league phase consisting of 72 games at 12, possibly 13, venues, beginning with the defending champions Chennai Super Kings playing Champions League T20 winners Mumbai Indians.

The Pune Warriors franchise will host eight games at the new stadium in Pune, subject to its completion. In 2011, Pune had to stage their ‘home’ games at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Dharamsala and Visakhapatman will also host two games each, and Cuttack is listed as an alternate venue to Hyderabad for two matches.

The first Qualifier, which will be contested by the top two teams in the league, and the Eliminator, contested by Nos. 3 and 4, will be held in Bangalore. Chennai will host the second Qualifier, which will be played between the winner of the Eliminator and the loser of the first Qualifier, and the tournament final.

The tournament is scheduled to begin 12 days after the Asia Cup final and a week after the end of South Africa’s tour of New Zealand. At present there are three international series that will clash with the 2012 IPL and could affect player availability for both the franchises and the countries. Sri Lanka are hosting England in April, while West Indies host Australia and then travel to England in May.

The next player auction for the IPL is scheduled for February 4. Stay tuned for more information