Chargers play Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian premier League opener today

Defending champions Deccan Chargers are determined to continue their fairytale in the third edition of the Indian premier League that gets underway on Friday.

Deepika Padukone, Lionel Richie and Bjorn Again, Abba’s next generation, will kick off the tournament at a gala show at 6.30 pm at the D.Y. Patel stadium in Navi Mumbai.

The action will start at 8 pm, when Deccan Chargers take on Kolkata Knight Riders, triggering 45 days of cut-throat competition among eight teams.

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Terror threat pushes Deccan Chargers games to Cuttack

Responding to the threat to withdraw from IPL 3, the IPL governing council granted two matches to Deccan Chargers in their catchment area of Cuttack with promises of holding a couple of matches later if the intelligence reports clear Hyderabad as a venue.

Besides the current agitations and mood in the state, Hyderabad has always been the hub of several sleeper cells and terror modules of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e- Tayyaba and Bangladesh- based Harkat Ul Jihad Al Islami, evident from the recent arrests of a few, including Shaik Khaja alias Amjad who heads terror operations in South India.

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Deccan Chargers slaps notice on IPL for return of matches

The Deccan Chargers on Monday threatened to pull out of IPL-3 if the six home games of the defending champions were not restored to Hyderabad, and Visakhapatnam.

Serving a legal notice to the IPL and the BCCI, Deccan Chargers Sporting Ventures Limited, the parent company of the team, contended that the decision to move the matches out was in “grave breach” of the agreement, which grants rights to the franchise to stage its home games at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Uppal.

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Indian Premier League 3 pulls out of city

The state minister or sports, Mr Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, made a starling revelation via a press release that all the IPL matches slated to be played n Hyderabad were being moved out. The inaugural ad already been pulled out of the city because of the unrest over Telangana. Mr Reddy's office said he had been told by the organisers that all matches were moved out. Two of the seven home matches of the Chargers are scheduled to be played in Visakhapatnam. Hyderabad was to host four after losing the opener.

Mr Reddy's step comes two days after the ICC president-elect, Mr Sharad Pawar, himself met the Shiv Sena chief, Mr Bal Thackeray, seeking to nullify the Sena's threat of keeping Australian players out of IPL-3 in retaliation for the violence unleashed against Indians there.

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Go to Pakistan, Sena tells Shah Rukh

The Maharashtra government's warning and assurance of security to Shah Rukh Khan's movies did not deter the Shiv Sena from holding protests outside the actor's residence in Bandra on Sunday.

The Sena is protesting Shah Rukh's statement favouring inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the Indian Premier League.

The Shiv Sena leader and MLC, Mr Anil Parab, who led the protest, said, "Shah Rukh should go to Pakistan if he wants to speak in favour of Pakistani cricketers."

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Krishna says Indian Premier League kept Pakistan out

The minister for external affairs, Mr S.M.Krishna, on Thursday said blaming New Delhi for the absence of Pakistani cricketers from the next edition of IPL (Indian Premier League) is unfortunate. He said the government is not involved in the decision.

"The government has nothing to do with the IPL on selection of players and various exercises that are connected with it. Pakistan will have to draw a line between where the Centre is connected and where the government is an actor," he added.

In a separate statement released to the media, the ministry of external affairs said, "The participation or absence of Pakistani cricketers in a commercial event of the nature of IPL is a matter not within the purview of the Centre."

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