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Cricket lovers all around the world can rejoice the news that they can now watch live streaming of IPL Cricket online via Youtube! BCCI has partnered with Google to take IPL 3 to many more people around the world through the most popular video streaming website – Youtube!

For the uninitiated, IPL is an acronym for Indian Premier League, which is a popular cricket league on the lines of NFL and EPL involving professional cricketers all around the world. The IPL enters the third season in 2010 and there will be a total of 59 matches spanning over a a 44-day period starting March 2010.

During IPL 2 (in 2009), matches were planned to be streamed live via the official website of IPL, but it was a major failure with people complaining the quality of streams to be below par. Luckily, this time around, all the matches of IPL 3 will be streamed live on Youtube’s Official IPL channel – IPLWillow!

What does IPL 3 Live streaming deal means for Youtube?

This will be the first time ever, any major sporting event will be broadcast live online on Youtube. Cricket, being a popular sport only in few countries like India, Australia and UK, I believe this is a right step by Google to test the preparedness of Youtube to be the official online broadcaster of other major sporting events like Olympics & FIFA World Cup!

From BCCI’s perspective, it will help them to take the ever-growing game of Twenty-20 cricket to many more people across the world through Youtube. However, it’s not clear if the rights have been sold for a specific period of years to Google or whether it’s a revenue-sharing deal.

Just in case if it is not clear for you yet, you can watch IPL 2010 cricket live streaming on Youtube at absolutely Free of cost!

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Indian Premier League 3 Fixtures (IPL 2010 Schedules – Revised)

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The IPL has tweaked the timeout system it introduced last season, with each team now able to call for a two-and-a-half minute break once any time during each innings. It is a more flexible system than in the previous year, when there was a seven-and-a-half minute break at the end of the 10th over of an innings.

“The timeout will allow teams to confer amongst themselves at crucial time in the game as needed,” Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, said on his Twitter feed. “It will help them re-strategise.”

The previous timeout system had come in for criticism from several quarters, including Sachin Tendulkar, who said it hampered the momentum of a team in a Twenty20 match.

On a day when Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne raised concerns about playing in the IPL this year during to security threats, Modi emphasised that the tournament’s organisers are working hard on ensuring players’ safety. “Security is always our top-most priority,” he said. “All our actions over the years have demonstrated that. We are working with all round the clock.”

Security fears regarding the IPL have intensified over the past few days after a string of statements from the 313 Brigade, Al-Qaeda’s operational arm in Pakistan, issued a warning to “the international community” not to send its representatives to major sports events being staged in India, including the IPL.

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The Deccan Chargers franchise is reported to have served a legal notice on the IPL, and threatened a boycott of the 2010 tournament, over the issue of its home matches being shifted out of Hyderabad and Vishakapatnam. It has asked the IPL to reconsider its decision, failing which it would seek legal recourse and, it said, “be justified in withdrawing from IPL Season-III”.

PTI reported that the notice, sent to Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president, asked the IPL to reconsider its decision to relocate the games and claimed that the decision was taken “arbitrarily, unilaterally, without our client’s consent and in complete breach of the Franchise Agreement dated April 10, 2008″.

It said the decision to shift the matches was against the objective of having franchisees from various regions of the country and against public interest and consequently was not acceptable to Deccan Chargers.

The IPL announced on Saturday that it had shifted all Deccan’s home matches to Mumbai and Nagpur following the uncertainty in Andhra Pradesh over the separatist Telengana agitation. The decision had sparked outrage among political leaders – with senior government ministers calling for a pullout from the tournament – and in the Hyderabad Cricket Association but the franchise itself had so far responded with caution.

The notice reiterated several issues raised earlier in the day by franchise chairman V Shankar. It said that the authorities concerned had given their permission for matches to be staged in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam and even the Telangana Joint Action Committee, which is heading the separatist movement, had agreed to extend its support to the IPL.

It asked how the IPL could relocate the matches to Mumbai in the absence of any similar assurance from the Shiv Sena, the regional chauvinist party that has said it won’t allow Australian players in the city following the racist attacks on Indian students in Australia.

The Shiv Sena’s threat, it said, would adversely affect the performance of the Deccan Chargers team, which includes Australian players, if they are compelled to play in Mumbai.

The IPL had initially announced only the shifting of the opening match between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders, which has several events on the sidelines, from Hyderabad to Navi Mumbai’s D Y Patil Stadium.

This past week had seen several reports of IPL matches being moved out of Hyderabad. Concerns over the political situation in Andhra Pradesh have already resulted in the shifting of an ODI between India and Sri Lanka from Visakhapatnam last December, and two ODIs scheduled for Hyderabad, during England women’s tour of India in February-March, have now been split between Bangalore and Mumbai. Also, spectators were barred from entering the stadium for the first two days of the Duleep Trophy final between West Zone and South Zone in Hyderabad because of a perceived security threat.

Deccan are the defending champions, having beaten Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final in South Africa last year. The result was a total turnaround from their last-placed finish in the inaugural edition in 2008.

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Ravindra Jadeja, the India international, will miss the IPL 2010 season after being caught out of contract with the deadline for the final squad lists passing on Friday. Jadeja played for the Rajasthan Royals in the first two seasons of the IPL but has not subsequently found a place with any franchise.

Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, confirmed that Jadeja had been penalised for allegedly trying to negotiate terms with another franchise. “The IPL governing council has arrived at this decision after due deliberations done after taking into account Ravindra Jadeja’s representation to the president of the BCCI and a further representation by the Rajasthan Royals,” he said in a statement. “The player guidelines laid out by the governing council of the IPL are sacrosanct and all players will need to strictly adhere to the same. We will not tolerate any player playing games or blackmailing any teams or the IPL/BCCI in any manner.”

However, IPL sources say he could be allowed back into the IPL if he appeals to the governing council. Though Jadeja’s name was removed from the Rajasthan squad list on the official IPL website around 11pm on Friday, he is still listed as a “batting star”, along with his picture and vital stats.

When contacted on Friday night, Jadeja said he was unaware of any reason why he should not be in the Rajasthan squad but did not wish to discuss the issue.

Jadeja, 21, is an India international, with 19 ODIs and five Twenty20 games under his belt. He was a key member of the team that won the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia in 2008, which pitchforked him into the limelight and an IPL contract, worth US$30,000, with Rajasthan. He was one of the key performers in Rajasthan’s victorious campaign in the inaugural IPL, leading Shane Warne, the captain and coach, to single him out as a special talent and a “superstar in the mak

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