The
DLF Indian Premier League or IPL is a Twenty20 Cricket
competition, formed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) and approved by International Cricket Council (ICC). Headed
by Lalit Modi, the IPL would include eight city teams - Mumbai,
Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Jaipur, Chennai, Chandigarh and Hyderabad
with each team going head on with rest of the seven teams throughout
the tournament that would be held during April-May 2008. The first
match has been scheduled to be played on 18th April and the final on
June 1st.
In the IPL there are five Icon Players namely : Sachin Tendulkar,
Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Virendera Sehwag.
Under IPL no one can bid for Icon Players and these players would
get 15% more amount then the next highest priced player within the
franchise.
The bidding of players spread through eight rounds and each
franchisee was restricted to spend only Rs. 20 cr. The selling of
teams to franchiees made BCCI to bag a whopping amount of Rs. 2,872
cr. With the highest amount of Rs. 6.0 cr. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
became the most expensive player in the bidding and went into the
franchise of Chennai, sponsored by India Cements. After that Andrew
Symonds (Australia) and Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) were picked up
by Hyderabad and Mumbai with Rs. 5.4 cr & Rs. 3.9 cr.
respectively.
The complete official list of
Indian
Premier League team franchise and their owners is as following :
The current Standings of
Indian Premier
League Teams and their points are as follows:
| Team |
Played |
Won |
Lost |
Points |
Net Run Rate |
| Rajasthan Royals |
14 |
11 |
3 |
22 |
+0.632 |
| Kings XI Punjab |
14 |
10 |
4 |
20 |
+0.509 |
| Chennai Super Kings |
14 |
8 |
6 |
16 |
-0.192 |
| Delhi Dare Devils |
14 |
7 |
6 |
15 |
+0.342 |
| Mumbai Indians |
14 |
7 |
7 |
14 |
+0.570 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders |
14 |
6 |
7 |
13 |
-0.147 |
| Bangalore Royal Challengers |
14 |
4 |
10 |
8 |
-1.160 |
| Deccan Chargers |
14 |
2 |
12 |
4 |
-0.467 |
Indian Premier League
