The BCCI has granted amnesty to 79 ICL players, 11 former players and 11 officials, dealing a potentially crippling blow to the unofficial league. The players include Hemang Badani, Dinesh Mongia and Deep Dasgupta while the former players include Sandeep Patil, EAS Prasanna, Madan Lal and Ajit Wadekar.
The players (click here for the full list) have been declared eligible for domestic cricket in India, which will be good news for the teams that suffered most from the ban - Bengal, Punjab and Hyderabad - but their participation in the IPL has not yet been formalised.
The ICL is now left with five Indian players from its original pool of 84 but there has been no official confirmation on the status of the league's 53 remaining foreign signings. ICL officials said "some of the foreign players" have left, and there have been individual confirmations from players such as Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq and, on Tuesday, South Africa's Justin Kemp.
However, India's former captain Kapil Dev, who is the chariman of the ICL's Executive Board, has not terminated his contract, nor has former wicketkeeper Kiran More.
Himanshu Mody, the ICL's business head, dismissed suggestions that the league was winding up. "The world has been saying this about the ICL time and again, and every time we come out stronger," he told Cricinfo.
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