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| The Bell Tolls: NFL's award season arrives in the New Year We'll all have to wait until the Farewell to the Meadowlands sendoff on Sunday night, when the Jets host the Bengals in the NFL's final regular-season ... rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
England players snubbed for IPL auction • Eight players ignored by franchises for 19 January auction • Jonathan Trott, Eoin Morgan among players to be passed overThe eight England players who put themselves forward for the next Indian Premier League auction have been snubbed by the eight franchises.Current Test and limited-overs player Jonathan Trott joins Eoin Morgan, who has emerged as a limited-overs star in the past 12 months, were the leading England players to be snubbed. They were joined by Tim Bresnan, Anthony McGrath, Monty Panesar, Adil Rashid, Usman Afzaal and James Foster on the list of players deemed unworthy by the IPL franchises. All were part of an initial list of 96 players for the 19 January auction, but none were selected by the franchises to go into the pared down list of 51.Trott and Morgan were expected to be available for only three of the six weeks of the tournament, possibly reducing their attraction to bidders. The revised list for the auction features 11 Australian players, nine from South Africa, eight each from Sri Lanka and West Indies, seven from Pakistan, four New Zealanders and one each from Bangladesh (Shakib Al Hasaon), Canada (Rizwan Cheema), Holland (Ryan ten Doeschate) and Zimbabwe (Murray Goodwin).The auction will be on a smaller scale to previous years, with franchises permitted to spend a maximum of $750,000 (£468,000) on players, as opposed to $2m last year. The IPL, which this year runs from 12 March to 25 April, will expand to 10 franchises next year, when all players will again be up for auction.IPLEngland Cricket TeamCricketguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Waterlogged pitches cause postponements across UK Portsmouth v Birmingham is the first Premier League game to be postponed today. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Australian Open live: Andy Murray v Marc Gicquel Andy Murray coasted into the third round of the Australian Open after a routine straight sets victory over Marc Gicquel in Melbourne. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
For Charlotte Bobcats, winning opens a door to new fans Don’t look now, but the Charlotte Bobcats are on the verge of posing an uncomfortable question: What’s your excuse now? feeds.bizjournals.com |