The IPL (Indian Premier League), is a concept started by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC), IPL is a 20-20 cricket competition.
The league is supposed to start in April 2008 and will go on for 44 days, with 60 matches approx and the prize money will be a whopping Rs.13 crore.
Each team will be having a pool of 16 players, with a maximum of eight foreign players and a minimum of four under-22 players. Adding to that, at least four players must be from the catchment area where the team is from.
The governing council have names like Lalit Modi, Sunil Gavaskar, MAK Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, Rajiv Shukla, Chirayu Amin, Inderjit Singh Bindra and Arun Jaitley.
Each team will be playing the other 7 teams at home and away, the top four teams at the end of the group stages will go through to the semi finals. Here's the list of the 8 teams for the competition with the links to their respective websites.
Kolkata
Jaipur
Chennai
Mohali
Mumbai
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Delhi
The league is supposed to start in April 2008 and will go on for 44 days, with 60 matches approx and the prize money will be a whopping Rs.13 crore.
Each team will be having a pool of 16 players, with a maximum of eight foreign players and a minimum of four under-22 players. Adding to that, at least four players must be from the catchment area where the team is from.
The governing council have names like Lalit Modi, Sunil Gavaskar, MAK Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, Rajiv Shukla, Chirayu Amin, Inderjit Singh Bindra and Arun Jaitley.
Each team will be playing the other 7 teams at home and away, the top four teams at the end of the group stages will go through to the semi finals. Here's the list of the 8 teams for the competition with the links to their respective websites.
Kolkata
Jaipur
Chennai
Mohali
Mumbai
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Delhi
On 14th Jan, 2008, BCCI announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Television network and Singapore-based World Sports Group secured the rights of the Indian Premier League. The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US$1.026 billion. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US$918 million for the telecast rights and US$108 million for the promotion of the tournament.
The BCCI also announced that the bulk of the proceeds from this deal would initially go to the IPL franchisees themselves, gradually reducing this amount over the life of the contract.
Network Ten has bought the rights to show every game live in Australia on free-to-air television for the next five years at a cost of AU$10 - $15 million.
Indian real estate giant DLF Group won the exclusive rights to the Indian Premier League title sponsorship worth INR 200 crore (over US$50 million) for 5 years.
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very good and useful information on IPL, well done Vijeeth. keep on updating
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