IPL Indian Premier League
IPL Indian Premier League
IPL Indian Premier League
History
Foundation
In 2007, the Indian Cricket League was founded, with funding
provided by Zee Entertainment Enterprises.[8] The ICL was not
recognized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) or
the International Cricket Council (ICC) and that the BCCI were not
pleased with committee members joining the ICL executive board.
[9]
To prevent players from joining the ICL, the BCCI increased the
prize money in domestic tournaments and imposed lifetime bans
on players joining the ICL, which was considered a rebel league
by the board.[10] Businessman and cricket executive, Lalit Modi,
was tasked by the BCCI to start a new Twenty20 league that
would rival the Indian Cricket League. In early 2008, the BCCI
announced the launch of the Indian Premier League, a new
franchise based T20 league.[11] The league would be based on
the Premier League of England and the NBA in the United States.
[11]
In order to decide the owners for the new league, an auction was
held on 24 January 2008 with the total base prices of the
franchises costing around $400 million.[11] At the end of the
auction, it was the winning bidders were announced, as well as
the cities the teams would be based
in: Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mohali
, andMumbai.[11] In the end, the franchises were all sold for a total
of $723.59 million.[12] The Indian Cricket League soon folded in
2009.[13]
Kings XI Punjab
The Kings XI Punjab (abbreviated as KXIP) are a
franchise cricket team based in Mohali, Punjab, that plays in
the Indian Premier League. The team is jointly owned by
leading Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, Wadia Group scion Ness
Wadia, Daburs Mohit Burmanand Karan Paul. The team plays its
home matches at the PCA Stadium, Mohali. Since the 2010 IPL,
they have been playing some of their home games
at Dharamsala as well. The team holds the record for the longest
winning streak in IPL.
Mumbai Indians
The Mumbai Indians (Marathi: ) (abbreviated as MI)
is a franchise cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in
theIndian Premier League (IPL). The team is one of the eight
founding members of the IPL in 2008. They are one of the main
teams in the city, together with clubs like the Mumbai cricket
team and football club Mumbai City FC. The franchise is owned
by India's biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, through its
100% subsidiary IndiaWin Sports. The primary home ground of
the Mumbai Indians is the Wankhede Stadium. It is one of the
most successful teams in the IPL.
The Mumbai Indians is the most successful team in the IPL. The
Mumbai Indians are currently captained by Rohit Sharma, and
coached by Ricky Ponting. They won the 2011 Champions
League Twenty20 after beating IPL rivals Royal Challengers
Bangaloreby 31 runs in the final. The team won its first IPL title,
in 2013, by defeating Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs in the final,
and then defeated the Rajasthan Royals by 33 runs to win
its second Champions League Twenty20 title later that year.[2]
[3]
Rohit Sharma is the leading run scorer of the team while Lasith
Malinga is the leading wicket-taker.
Rajasthan Royals
The Rajasthan Royals (often abbreviated as RR) is a cricket
franchise (currently suspended for 2 years) that represented the
city ofJaipur in the Indian Premier League.[1] Founded in 2008 as
one of the initial eight IPL franchises, the team was owned
by Manoj Badale. The team played its home matches at
the Sawai Mansingh Stadium at Jaipur and also had secondary
home grounds at theSardar Patel Stadium at Ahmedabad and
the Brabourne Stadium at Mumbai.
Shane Watson is the only player to lead most runs, [10] most
wickets,[11] highest score,[12] highest batting average,[13] most sixes,
[14]
for a team in T20. Also the only player to win man of the
tournament IPL twice.
Deccan Chargers
The Deccan Chargers, known in short as DC, was a cricket
franchise based in the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier
League.[1] The team was one of the eight founding members of
the IPL in 2008 and was owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdings
Ltd. After finishing last in the first season of the IPL, they won
the second season held in South Africa in 2009 under the
captaincy of former Australian wicket-keeper batsman Adam
Gilchrist. Gilchrist was the captain of the team for the first three
seasons of the IPL. From the fourth season, Kumar
Sangakkara led the team and Cameron White played as his
deputy. The team was coached byDarren Lehmann, former
Australian cricketer.
The owners put the franchise up for sale in 2012 but declined the
sole bid. On 14 September 2012, the IPL governing council
terminated the Chargers for breaching contract terms.[2] The Sun
TV Network won the bid for the Hyderabad franchise, the BCCI
confirmed on 25 October 2012.[3] The new team was named
the Sunrisers Hyderabad.[4]
SunRisers Hyderabad
The SunRisers Hyderabad (often abbreviated as SRH) is a
cricket franchise based in the city of Hyderabad that plays in
the Indian Premier League (IPL).[3] The team is owned
by Kalanithi Maran of the Sun TV channel Network.[4] Tom
Moody is the head coach and Simon Helmot is the assistant
coach of the team. Krish Srikkanth and VVS Laxman are the
mentors of the team while Muttiah Muralitharan is the bowling
coach and also a mentor of the team.[5][6]
[14]
Sahara Adventure Sports Group bought the Pune franchise for
$370 million while Rendezvous Sports World bought the Kochi
franchise for $333.3 million.[14] However, one year later, on 11
November 2011, it was announced that the Kochi Tuskers Kerala
side would be terminated following the side breaching the BCCI's
terms of conditions.[15]
Then, on 14 September 2012, following the team not being able
to find new owners, the BCCI announced that
the 2009 champions, the Deccan Chargers, would be terminated.
[16]
The next month, on 25 October, an auction was held to see
who would be the owner of the replacement franchise, with Sun
TV Network winning the bid for theHyderabad franchise.[17] The
team would be named Sunrisers Hyderabad.[18]
On 14 June 2015, it was announced that two-time
champions, Chennai Super Kings, and the inaugural
season champions, Rajasthan Royals, would be suspended for
two seasons following their role in a match-fixing and betting
scandal.[19] Then, on 8 December 2015, following an auction, it
was revealed that Rajkot and Pune would replace Chennai and
Rajasthan for two seasons.[20]
Tournament format[edit]
Currently, with eight teams, each team plays each other twice in a
home-and-away round-robin tournament.[21] At the conclusion of
the league stage, the top four teams qualify for the finals. The top
two teams play each other in the first preliminary round match,
with the winner going straight to the final while the loser goes on
to the second preliminary round. The third and fourth place teams
play each other to decide who will take on the loser from the first
preliminary round match.[21] The winner of the second preliminary
round match will move onto the final where the winner will be
crowned the Indian Premier League champions.[21]
Home
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Riders
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Bangalore
Rajiv Gandhi
Sunrisers Hyderab International Tom David
Telangana
Hyderabad ad Cricket Moody Warner
Stadium
Future teams
Rising Maharashtra
Pune Cricket Stephe MS
Pune Maharashtra
Supergiant Association n Fleming Dhoni
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Defunct/Suspended teams[edit]
Rajiv Gandhi
Deccan
Hyderabad Telangana International 2012
Chargers
Cricket Stadium
Kochi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Tuskers Kochi Kerala 2011
Stadium
Kerala
Pune
Maharasht
Warriors Pune MCA Stadium 2013
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India
Suspended teams
Chennai M. A.
Tamil
Super Chennai Chidambaram 2015
Nadu
Kings Stadium