Salman Khan Trying his hand in IPL!!

The 2011 edition of the IPL will have two more teams added to the fray. The Bollywood star Salman Khan is trying to buy one of the two teams. He met IPL chairman Lalit Modi on Wednesday to understand the process and details of buying a team in IPL.

The fourth season of IPL in 2011 will see two new teams through a bidding process which will take place at the end of this year.

Modi mentioned that in addition to Salman, there are more queries for buying a team.

He said Salman expressed his interest in buying a team. "He has been interested to buy a team for quite some time. Today we had a brief meeting and I explained him how to go about with the task. I can assure you that Salman is not the only star who is thinking to buy a team. I have had around 28 queries and the list will surely go up."

Other movie stars in the IPL are: Sharukh Khan and Juhi Chawla are the owners of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR); Priety Zinta is a co-owner of Kings XI Punjab (KXI); Shilpa Shetty bought stakes in Rajasthan Royals (RR).

IPL is on, Awaiting New Schedule!

After several rounds of outbursts and open statements through media, both the Government of India and the IPL cricketing body have come to a conclusion. The IPL is not postponed or cancelled as it would result in huge loss for the organizers, players in addition to several inconveniences.

"We are extremely grateful and thankful to Home Minister (P Chidambaram) that security will be provided for IPL matches. We will shortly have a new schedule out. The IPL is on," said Lalit Modi, IPL Commissioner.

Modi also said that the tournament will not be hosted outside India. He also added, "there have been lots of speculation, please discount those speculations. We are working through the schedule. It is a cumbersome process. There will be no matches in the cities on the day they go to polls and there will be no matches on the day of the counting (May 16) at all."

So, the IPL sports enthusiats should wait for some more time to see the schedule coming out! The whole world will be looking at the IPL to see how far the security is provided for the players, umpires, staff, spectators, press, media, etc.

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