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 Kolkata Knight Riders not looking for players for new season yet
5th Jul 2008 17:02 IST
Agencies
It's too early to speak about the new faces for the next season till the Board finalises the $5-million cap for buying players, according to the Kolkata Knight Riders team management.
"When we are in dark about the IPL rules (whether the cap be raised or scrapped), we don't want to comment on who we have approached. With about 10 months to go for the second edition, it's too early to say," KKR CEO Joy Bhattacharya said in Kolkata.
He declined to disclose whether Knight Riders' skipper Sourav Ganguly, who is in London for his treatment of his father's heart ailment, had approached England bigwigs Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen.
Not ruling out that Ganguly did speak to the duo, the KKR CEO, however, said it was normal process and all franchise owners spoke to different players.
"Until the DLF IPL makes the rules clear, it's difficult to answer. But it's true that all the franchise owners are approaching different players. That's quite normal. Hopefully by the end of July, the picture will be clear for a formal announcement," Bhattacharya said.
But sources claim, Flintoff and Pietersen were waiting for the England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) nod to take part in the cash-rich Twenty20 league so that they could be a part of the Kolkata team.
The ECB has come under fire in the past for not allowing its centrally-contracted players to participate in the inaugural edition.
That the KKR have sounded out Flintoff and Pietersen appeared in The Daily Telegraph on Friday. |
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