Indian Cricket League, every mention

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• ▶ 57:22 David Rosenthal Another domestic T-twenty league with city-based franchises announces that they're gonna launch, and they're gonna call it the Indian Cricket League, and it's backed by the broadcaster Zee TV.
• ▶ 57:39 Ben Gilbert Not only was it called the Indian Cricket League, which is just a great name, that is actually an entity name that Lalit had registered in the nineties.
• ▶ 57:49 Ben Gilbert I don't know if Lalit was thinking he would actually call IPL the Indian Cricket League, but then something else launches called the Indian Cricket League.
• ▶ 58:20 Ben Gilbert Alright, so what is this Indian Cricket League?
• ▶ 1:00:42 David Rosenthal Ah, so this is spring 2007 when they announce ICL.
• ▶ 1:00:47 Ben Gilbert The BCCI immediately says any players who sign up for the Indian Cricket League are banned for life from playing for India nationally or any other domestic tournaments.
• ▶ 1:01:33 Ben Gilbert And in fact, what they did was they went and pulled pensions away from any retired cricketers who then went and joined the ICL.
• ▶ 1:01:57 Ben Gilbert So they also banned their players from joining the ICL.
• ▶ 1:02:08 Ben Gilbert In oh nine, the BCCI announced an amnesty and all players could return to official cricket without penalties if they cut all ties with the ICL.
• ▶ 1:03:48 David Rosenthal Cricket at this point in time, they would have loved for the ICL to take off and be able to broadcast that and go around the BCCI, but it just wasn't a compelling product.
• ▶ 1:04:39 David Rosenthal It's also lucky for them that they do pull this forward in response to the competitive threat from the ICL, because there's another media marketing gift, which is that unexpectedly, India ends up winning the first T-Twenty World Cup that…
• ▶ 3:39:46 Ben Gilbert And, you know, the ICL tried this, but the ICL didn't have Kingdom of Saudi Arabia money.