The eight team, 59-match IPL tournament has been transferred from India following the inability of the cricket authorities there to agree on a schedule with the national government, fearful of the security implications of staging a major sporting event at the same time as a general election.
The team best served by the shift may be Bangalore Royal Challengers, which has five South African players, including the world-class fast bowler Dale Steyn, plus the South African-born Pietersen. While the Australian spin legend Shane Warne, captain-coach of Rajasthan, could remain the tournament’s dominant personality, his compatriots as a whole are likely to make less impact in 2009, with players on the national team missing much of the tournament to play one-day internationals against Pakistan.
A fresh injection of Bollywood glamour — represented in South Africa this week by the presence of Shah Rukh Khan, owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders, alongside the Indian League commissioner, Lalit Modi, — has come with the investment by Shilpa Shetty, who acknowledges she knows little about cricket, in the reigning champion Rajasthan Royals.
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