Indian Premier League--> Hot n Happening!!

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has launched the Indian Premier League (IPL) on the lines of football’s English Premier League and the National Basketball League (NBA) of the U.S It has been launched just to supress the ICL which made news some months back.

IPL is supposed to start its 20-20 match in the month of april at Bangalore. The final match will take place at Mumbai.Eight teams will be battling out in the tournament. The teams taking part are

1)Chennai owned by India cements
2)Mohali owned by Preity Zinta & Ness Wadia
3)Kolkatta owned by King Khan [Shah Rukh Khan]
4)Jaipur owned by Emerging Media
5)Mumbai owned by Mukesh Ambani
6)Hyderabad owned by Deccan Chronicle
7)Delhi owned by GMR holdings
8)Bangalore owned by Vijay Mallya.
Mumbai team was bought by Mukesh Ambani for a whopping 440 crores apprx followed by Bangalore team which was bought for 428 cr.apprx by Vijay Mallya.

Each team can have a maximum of 16 players .
8 foreign players out of which only 4 can take the field
4 U-22 players
4 local players
The bidding for the players took for the International players yesterday at Mumbai where all the team owners were present to bid for their favourite players.The list of the players in each team along with their bid rates is as follows

Hyderabad -Adam Gilchrist (US$700,000)
Andrew Symonds (US$1.35 million)
Herschelle Gibbs (US$575,000)
Shahid Afridi (US$675,000)
Scott Styris (US$175,000)
VVS Laxman (US$375,000)[captain]
Rohit Sharma (US$750,000)
Chamara Silva (US$100,000)
RP Singh (US$875,000)
Chaminda Vaas (US$200,000)
Nuwan Zoysa (US$110,000)


Chennai-Mahendra Singh Dhoni (US$1.5 million)
Muttiah Muralitharan (US$600,000)
Matthew Hayden (US$375,000)
Jacob Oram (US$675,000)
Stephen Fleming (US$350,000)
Parthiv Patel (US$325,000)
Joginder Sharma (US$225,000)
Albie Morkel (US$675,000)
Suresh Raina (US$650,000)
Makhaya Ntini (US$200,000)
Michael Hussey (US$350,000)

Mohali-

Yuvraj Singh (icon)
Mahela Jayawardene (US$475,000)
Kumar Sangakkara (US$700,000)
Brett Lee (US$900,000)
Sreesanth (US$625,000)
Irfan Pathan (US$925,000)
Ramesh Powar (US$170,000)
Piyush Chawla (US$400,000)
Simon Katich (US$200,000)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (US$225,000)


Kolkatta-

Sourav Ganguly (icon)
Shoaib Akhtar (US$425,000)
Ricky Ponting (US$400,000)
Brendon McCullum (US$700,000)
Chris Gayle (US$800,000)
Ajit Agarkar (US$330,000)
David Hussey (US$675,000)
Ishant Sharma (US$950,000)
Murali Kartik (US$425,000)
Umar Gul (US$150,000)
Tatenda Taibu (US$125,000)

Mumbai-

Sachin Tendulkar (icon)
Sanath Jayasuriya (US$975,000)
Harbhajan Singh (US$850,000)
Shaun Pollock (US$550,000)
Robin Uthappa (US$800,000)
Lasith Malinga (US$350,000)
Dilhara Fernando (US$150,000)
Loots Bosman (US$175,000)

Bangalore -

Rahul Dravid (icon)
Anil Kumble (US$500,000)
Jacques Kallis (US$900,000)
Zaheer Khan (US$450,000)
Mark Boucher (US$450,000)
Cameron White (US$500,000)
Wasim Jaffer (US$150,000)
Dale Steyn (US$325,000)
Nathan Bracken (US$325,000)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (US$200,000)

Delhi Daredevils-

Virender Sehwag (icon)
Daniel Vettori (US$625,000)
Shoaib Malik (US$500,000)
Mohammad Asif (US$650,000)
AB de Villiers (US$300,000)
Dinesh Karthik (US$525,000)
Farveez Maharoof (US$225,000)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (US$250,000)
Manoj Tiwary (US$675,000)
Gautam Gambhir (US$725,000)
Glenn McGrath (US$350,000)

Jaipur-

Shane Warne (US$450,000)
Graeme Smith (US$475,000)
Younis Khan (US$225,000)
Kamran Akmal (US$150,000)
Yusuf Pathan (US$475,000)
Mohammad Kaif (US$675,000)
Munaf Patel (US$275,000)
Justin Langer (US$200,000)
Each team has a min bid value of 3.3mn and a max of 5mn.Jaipur has used up only 2.925 mn and are below the min. bid rate and have been penalized.They will have to pay the remaining amount to the IPL, who will use the money to reimburse players whose names were withdrawn.

In the auction,there creeped in many surprises.
Dhoni 6cr
Ishant for a whoppin 3.8 cr. tat too for a player who has jus played one series.
Symonds for 5.6million.[Monkey effect i guess]
Ponting for a meagre 1.6 cr
Another big surprise was Mike Hussey[Mr.Cricket] whos known to be the best finisher went for only 1.4 cr whereas his brother who has never played in the internation arena went for 2.7 crores.
It was a jackpot for many indian players namely robin,rohit,kartik,I&Y Pathan,Parthiv etc etc.

Now all said and done , the main question is , Will the IPL live upto the expectations? Well we'll have to wait for another couple of months to get the answer for the question.