Indian Premier League and Cricket News by IPL Cricket Forum

Bengal pacer Ranadeb Bose on Friday signed for the Kolkata Knight
Riders. Ranadeb thus completed the quota of four local players for the
Shah Rukh Khan-owned IPL team. Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wriddhhiman Saha and
Sourashish Lahiri had earlier joined the Sourav Ganguly-led and John
Buchanan-coached team.

A city court on Thursday directed petitioners and Red Chillies
Entertainment to file affidavits by April 8 on a plea seeking free tickets for
the 31,000 Cricket Association of Bengal members during the upcoming Indian
Premier League ties at the Eden Gardens.

Justice Murari Mohan Ghosh,
directed that the matter would come up for hearing on the said date.

The court, however, did not pass any order of injunction as prayed
for by the petitioners Bengal Cricket Lovers’ Forum on distribution of tickets
for the matches.

Appearing for the petitioners, lawyer Ajay Sanyal
contended that according to CAB rules, life, annual and associate members were
entitled to watch all matches - except charity ties - at Eden Gardens free of
cost.

He claimed that the rights and privileges of all the CAB
members were being infringed upon by asking them to pay for viewing the matches
to be held from April 20.

CAB counsel Narendranath Chakraborty
sought time from the court saying his client had not yet received any notice
from the petitioners and as such was not prepared for the case.

Nobody appeared for the other respondents, including RCE of filmstar
Shah Rukh Khan.

The Bengal Cricket Lovers’ Forum has been floated by
nearly 6,000 CAB members.

RCE is the franchisee owner of the team
‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ that would organise the matches at the Eden as per IPL
rules.