Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Franchises



The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008 While the total base price for auction was US $400 million, the auction fetched US $723.59 million.
On 21 March 2010, Pune and Kochi were unveiled as the two new franchises for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. The base price was $225 million. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was bought by Rendezvous Sports World Limited for $333.3 million. The process was to have been completed on 7 March but was postponed by two weeks after many bidders and the BCCI objected to stiff financial clauses. The second franchise auction fetched total $703 million.


Team Name                     City           Owner(s)                         Captain                    Head Coach
Mumbai IndiansMumbaiMukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries
Harbhajan SinghRobin Singh
Royal Challengers BangaloreBangaloreVijay Mallya
UB Group
Daniel VettoriRay Jennings
Deccan ChargersHyderabadT Venkattram Reddy
Deccan Chronicle Group
Kumar SangakkaraDarren Lehmann
Chennai Super KingsChennaiGurunath Meiyappan
India Cements
Mahendra Singh DhoniStephen Fleming
Delhi DaredevilsNew DelhiGMR GroupVirender SehwagEric Simons
Kings XI PunjabChandigarhNess Wadia, Preity Zinta,
Dabur, Apeejay Surendera Group
Adam GilchristAdam Gilchrist
Kolkata Knight RidersKolkataShahrukh Khan
Red Chillies Entertainment
Juhi Chawla, Jay Mehta
Gautam GambhirTrevor Bayliss
Rajasthan RoyalsJaipurLachlan Murdoch
Emerging Media
Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra
Rahul DravidMinoti Desai
Pune Warriors IndiaPuneSubrato Roy SaharaSourav GangulyDermot Reeve
Kochi Tuskers Kerala
(Defunct)
KochiKochi Cricket Private Ltd

IPL:introduction

IPL means

Indian Premier League 

it is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket championship in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner. It is currently contested by nine teams, consisting of players from around the world. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League

There are atleast play 4 season as below:

First season:

The inaugural season of the tournament started on 18 April 2008 and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain

Second season:

he 2009 season coincided with the General Elections in India. Owing to concerns regarding players' security, the venue was shifted to South Africa. The format of the tournament remained same as the inaugural one.

Third season:

The third [season] opened in January 2010 with the auction for players. 66 players were on offer but only 11 players were sold. In this season, Hyderabad Deccan Chargers did not play at their preferred home location of Hyderabad, India due to the ongoing political crisis in the Telangana region .

Fourth season:

On 21 March 2010, it was announced in Chennai that two new teams from Pune and Kochi will be added to the IPL for the fourth season. However, the bid around the Kochi franchisee turned controversial resulting in the resignation of minister, Shashi Tharoor from the Central Government and investigations by various departments of the Government of India into the financial dealings of IPL and the other existing franchisees. Later, Lalit Modi was also removed from IPL chairmanship by BCCI. On 5 December 2010, it was confirmed that Kochi will take part in the fourth season of IPL

Fifth season

The fifth season, this time with 9 teams (after the termination of the Kochi franchise) started on 4 April 2012 in Mumbai, for which the players auction was held on 4 February 2012 in Bangalore. The season saw IPL authority increasing the number of players in each squad to 33 from the previous limit of 30 .The first match between Champions League 20–20 winners Mumbai Indians and the defending champions Chennai Super Kings was won by Mumbai Indians by eight wickets. Man of the match Richard Levi scored a 35 ball 50 with 6 fours and 3 sixes.
The season will comprise of 9 teams, with 76 matches played.cochi is not played.