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The Indian Premier League, created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council, is a Twenty20 cricket competition.

Contents 1 Background 2 Fixtures 3 Television Rights 4 Title Sponsorship Rights 5 Franchises 6 Player signings 7 See Also 8 External links 9 References

[edit] Background

The league is scheduled to start in April 2008 and will last for 44 days, involving 59 matches. The prize money for the league will be around Rs 13 crore (US $3million).

Each team will have a pool of 16 players, with a maximum of eight foreign players and a minimum of four under-22 players. Additionally, at least four players must be from the catchment area where the team is based.

The governing council consists of Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi, Sunil Gavaskar, MAK Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, Rajiv Shukla, Chirayu Amin, Inderjit Singh Bindra and Arun Jaitley.

Although it is going to be a franchise system, some foreign players have already been contracted by the BCCI to play in the IPL.

[edit] Fixtures

Each team will play the other 7 teams home and away, the top four teams at the end of the group stages will go through to the semi finals.[1]

[edit] Television Rights

On January 14th, 2008, it was 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

The BCCI announced that the bulk of the proceeds from this deal would initially go to the IPL franchises 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.^[3]

[edit] Title Sponsorship Rights

Indian real estate developer DLF Universal secured exclusive rights to the Indian Premier League title sponsorship worth INR 200 crore (over US$50 million) for five years.

[edit] Franchises

The magnitude of the Indian Premier League was confirmed when the winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on January 24, 2008.^[4] While the total base price for auction was US$400 million, the auction fetched US$723.59 million.^[5] The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were as follows.

Franchise	Owner(s)	Price (USD)
Bangalore Royal Challengers	Vijay Mallya / UB group	$111.6 million
Chennai Super Kings	India Cements / N Srinivasan	$91 million
Delhi DareDevils	GMR group	$84 million
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers	Deccan Chronicle	$107 million
Jaipur Rajasthan Royals	Emerging Media (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram and investors)	$67 million
Kolkata	Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with Juhi Chawla Mehta and Jay Mehta	$75.09 million
Mohali	Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Dabur's Mohit Burman	$76 million
Mumbai	Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited	$111.9 million

[edit] Player signings

The official list of Players bids were as follows.

Franchise	Player	Age	Country	Cost (USD)
Bangalore Royal Challengers	Rahul Dravid ♠ Captain	35	Template:Flagicon India	$1,035,000 ♠
	Jacques Kallis	32	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$900,000
	Anil Kumble	37	Template:Flagicon India	$500,000
	Cameron White	24	Template:Flagicon Australia	$500,000
	Zaheer Khan	29	Template:Flagicon India	$450,000
	Mark Boucher	31	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$450,000
	Nathan Bracken	30	Template:Flagicon Australia	$325,000
	Dale Steyn	24	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$325,000
	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	33	Template:Flagicon West Indies	$200,000
	Wasim Jaffer	30	Template:Flagicon India	$150,000
	Total purchase price			$4,835,000
Chennai Super Kings	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	26	Template:Flagicon Captain India	$1,500,000
	Jacob Oram	28	Template:Flagicon New Zealand	$675,000
	Suresh Raina	21	Template:Flagicon India	$650,000
	Albie Morkel	28	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$675,000
	Muttiah Muralitharan	35	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$600,000
	Matthew Hayden	36	Template:Flagicon Australia	$375,000
	Michael Hussey	32	Template:Flagicon Australia	$350,000
	Stephen Fleming	35	Template:Flagicon New Zealand	$350,000
	Parthiv Patel	22	Template:Flagicon India	$325,000
	Joginder Sharma	24	Template:Flagicon India	$225,000
	Makhaya Ntini	30	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$200,000
	Total purchase price			$5,925,000
Delhi DareDevils	Virender Sehwag ♠Captain	29	Template:Flagicon India	$833,750 ♠
	Gautam Gambhir	26	Template:Flagicon India	$725,000
	Manoj Tiwary	22	Template:Flagicon India	$675,000
	Mohammad Asif	25	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$650,000
	Daniel Vettori	29	Template:Flagicon New Zealand	$625,000
	Dinesh Karthik	22	Template:Flagicon India	$525,000
	Shoaib Malik	26	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$500,000
	Glenn McGrath	38	Template:Flagicon Australia	$350,000
	AB de Villiers	24	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$300,000
	Tillakaratne Dilshan	31	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$250,000
	Farveez Maharoof	23	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$225,000
	Total purchase price			$5,572,500
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers	Andrew Symonds	32	Template:Flagicon Australia	$1,350,000
	R. P. Singh	22	Template:Flagicon India	$875,000
	Rohit Sharma	20	Template:Flagicon India	$750,000
	Adam Gilchrist	36	Template:Flagicon Australia	$700,000
	Shahid Afridi	27	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$675,000
	Herschelle Gibbs	33	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$575,000
	V. V. S. Laxman (Captain)	33	Template:Flagicon India	$375,000
	Chaminda Vaas	34	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$200,000
	Scott Styris	32	Template:Flagicon New Zealand	$175,000
	Nuwan Zoysa	30	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$110,000
	Chamara Silva	28	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$100,000
	Total purchase price			$5,885,000
Rajasthan Royals	Mohammad Kaif	27	Template:Flagicon India	$675,000
	Yusuf Pathan	25	Template:Flagicon India	$475,000
	Graeme Smith	27	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$475,000
	Shane Warne	38	Template:Flagicon Australia	$450,000
	Munaf Patel	24	Template:Flagicon India	$275,000
	Younis Khan	32	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$225,000
	Justin Langer	38	Template:Flagicon Australia	$200,000
	Kamran Akmal	26	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$150,000
	Total purchase price			$2,925,000
rowspan="12"Knight Riders [Coach: John Buchanan Template:Flagicon	Sourav Ganguly ♠	35	Template:Flagicon India	$1,092,500 ♠
Ishant Sharma	19	Template:Flagicon India	$950,000
Chris Gayle	28	Template:Flagicon West Indies	$800,000
Brendon McCullum	26	Template:Flagicon New Zealand	$700,000
David Hussey	30	Template:Flagicon Australia	$625,000
Shoaib Akhtar	32	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$425,000
Murali Kartik	31	Template:Flagicon India	$425,000
Ricky Ponting	33	Template:Flagicon Australia	$400,000
Ajit Agarkar	30	Template:Flagicon India	$330,000
Umar Gul	24	Template:Flagicon Pakistan	$150,000
Tatenda Taibu	24	Template:Flagicon Zimbabwe	$125,000
Total purchase price			$6,022,500
Punjab Coach: Tom Moody Template:Flagicon	Yuvraj Singh ♠	26	Template:Flagicon India	$1,063,750 ♠
	Irfan Pathan	23	Template:Flagicon India	$925,000
	Brett Lee	31	Template:Flagicon Australia	$900,000
	Kumar Sangakkara	30	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$700,000
	Sreesanth	25	Template:Flagicon India	$625,000
	Mahela Jayawardene	30	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$475,000
	Piyush Chawla	19	Template:Flagicon India	$400,000
	Ramnaresh Sarwan	27	Template:Flagicon West Indies	$225,000
	Simon Katich	32	Template:Flagicon Australia	$200,000
	Ramesh Powar	30	Template:Flagicon India	$170,000
	Total purchase price			$5,683,750
Mumbai Indians	Sachin Tendulkar ♠	34	Template:Flagicon India	$1,121,250 ♠
	Sanath Jayasuriya	38	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$975,000
	Harbhajan Singh	27	Template:Flagicon India	$850,000
	Robin Uthappa	22	Template:Flagicon India	$800,000
	Shaun Pollock	34	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$550,000
	Lasith Malinga	24	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$350,000
	Loots Bosman	30	Template:Flagicon South Africa	$175,000
	Dilhara Fernando	29	Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	$150,000
	Total purchase price			$4,971,250

♠ Denotes Icon Player who will be paid at least 15% more than the next highest earner within their respective franchise.

The players' auction was held on February 20. The IPL placed icon status on few marquee Indian players such as Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar,Yuvraj Singh and lastly Virender Sehwag. This ensures that these players will play only for their respective city sides--a strategy used to increase fan support and interest amongst locals.^[6] Many players from the Australian National Team decided not to submit their names for consideration in the auction. This may have been a direct result of the events of the Sydney Test in the 2007/08 Border Gavaskar Trophy^[7], or Cricket Australia's desire for global protection of their sponsors. No player currently contracted by the England Cricket Board submitted their name, as the tournament directly conflicts with the English National Team's winter schedule. From the 77 players, who had put their names for consideration, Mohammed Yousuf and Ashwell Prince were unsigned.

[edit] See Also

Indian Cricket League

[edit] External links

• Official Indian Premier League Site
• League Cricket Coverage in India - IPL and ICL
• cricket20 Coverage of the IPL

[edit] References

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