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Indian Premier League
Logo of the Indian Premier League
Countries	India
Administrator	BCCI
Format	Twenty20
First tournament	2008
Last tournament	2009
Tournament format	Double round-robin and Knockout
Number of teams	8
Current champion	Deccan Chargers
Most successful	Rajasthan Royals and Deccan Chargers (1 title)
Qualification	Twenty20 Champions League
Most runs	Adam Gilchrist (931) [1]
Most wickets	R. P. Singh (38) [2]
Website	www.iplt20.com
2009 Indian Premier League
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The Indian Premier League (also known as the "DLF Indian Premier League" and often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi. The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008, and ended on 1 June 2008 with the victory of the Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

As the second season of the IPL coincided with multi-phase 2009 Indian general elections, the Indian Central Government refused to provide the Indian paramilitary forces to provide security, saying the forces would be streched too thinly if they were to safeguard both the IPL and the elections. As a result, the BCCI decided to host the second season of the league outside India.^[3] All 59 matches of the second season, abbreviated as IPL 2, took place in South Africa. Ironically, South Africa were also scheduled to have elections duing the IPL, however, the South African government provided adequate security for both the South African General Elections and the IPL.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Inaugural season 1.2 Second season 2 Franchises 2.1 Existing Original Eight 2.2 2010-11 expansion 2.3 2012-13 expansion 3 Player signings 4 Television rights and sponsorships 4.1 Television rights 4.2 Sponsorships 5 Global following 6 Impact on the game 7 Rules 8 Official website 9 Statistics and records 9.1 List of hat tricks 10 Revenue and profits 10.1 Franchise earnings 11 Controversies 11.1 Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board 11.2 Conflicts with Cricket Australia 11.3 Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board 11.4 Conflicts with other Boards 11.5 Media restrictions 11.6 Conflict with Cricket Club of India 12 References 13 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Inaugural season

The tournament started on 18 April 2008 in Bangalore and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. Each team played every other both at home and away in a round robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final. Rajasthan Royals emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.

[edit] Second season

The 2009 season coincided with the general elections in India. Due to concerns regarding players' security, the venue was shifted to South Africa. The format of the tournament remained the same as the inaugural one. Deccan Chargers came out as eventual winners of the tournament.

[edit] Franchises

[edit] Existing Original Eight

The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 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)
Mumbai Indians	Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries)	$ 111.9 m
Royal Challengers Bangalore	Vijay Mallya (UB Group)	$ 111.6 m
Deccan Chargers	Deccan Chronicle	$ 107.0  m
Chennai Super Kings	India Cements (N.Srinivasan)	$ 91.90 m
Delhi Daredevils	GMR Holdings (Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao)	$ 84.0 m
Kings XI Punjab	Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Priety Zinta, Mohit Burman (Dabur) and Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group)	$ 76.0 m
Kolkata Knight Riders	Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and J Mehta)	$ 75.1 m
Rajasthan Royals	Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha and Suresh Chellaram), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra	$ 67.0 m

[edit] 2010-11 expansion

After the success of the first season, it has been reported that two new franchises will join the IPL in 2010-11, increasing the total number of teams to 10. The new confirmed franchises will be based in Ahmedabad and Kanpur, with Anil Ambani's name associated with the ownership of the Ahmedabad franchise, and Sahara Group is touted as the possible suitors to buy the Kanpur franchise. Other cities being linked with getting a franchisee are Noida (UP), Patna-Ranchi joined franchisee or a team from the North-East to promote the sport in the region and possibly one team from the north-western states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand.Top Bollywood director Priyadarshan and Bollywood superstar Mohanlal plan to start a cricket team from Kerala for the next IPL season, to be titled as 'City Cricketers' ^[6]

Expansions- 2010-11 season -

• IPL Ahmedabad
• IPL Kanpur
• IPL Kerala (City Cricketers)
• Any teams from the following-

1. A team from Noida, Uttar Pradesh
2. A Patna joined franchisee
3. A team from the Assam
4. A team from the north-western states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhandh

[edit] 2012-13 expansion

The unselected team from the three postulated for the 2010-11 expansion will be considered for another set of expansions in the 2012-13 season. An expansion of two more teams is expected for 2012-13. A second Mumbai or Delhi team has also been proposed for future expansion of two teams to take place in the 2012-13 season.^[7] The Delhi team could be localized to Gurgaon, Faridabad, NOIDA or Greater NOIDA or could be more likely combined to create an alternative Delhi team.

[edit] Player signings

The first players' auctions were held on 20 February 2008. The IPL placed icon status on a select few marquee Indian players. These players were Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag. VVS Laxman initially named an icon player, later voluntarily opted out of his icon status to give his team (Deccan Chargers) more money to bid for players.^[8] For the second season, auctions were also held, but free signings taking place in the off-season by franchises led to calls for a draft-like system where the lowest ranked teams would be given a first opportunity to sign players.

[edit] Television rights and sponsorships

The IPL is predicted to bring the BCCI income of approximately US$1 billion, over a period of five to ten years. All of these revenues are directed to a central pool, 40% of which will go to IPL itself, 54% to franchisees and 6% as prize money. The money will be distributed in these proportions until 2017, after which the share of IPL will be 50%, franchisees 45% and prize money 5%. The IPL signed up Kingfisher Airlines as the official umpire partner for the series in a Rs. 106 crore (1.06 billion) deal. This deal sees the Kingfisher Airlines brand on all umpires' uniforms and also on the giant screens during third umpire decisions.^[9]

[edit] Television rights

On 15 January 2008 it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.^[10] 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 television broadcast rights and US $108 million for the promotion of the tournament.^[11] This deal was challenged in the Bombay High Court by IPL, and got the ruling on its side. After losing the battle in court, Sony Entertainment Television signed a new contract with BCCI with Sony Entertainment Television paying a staggering Rs. 8700 crores (87 billion) for 10 years. One of the reasons for payment of this huge amount is seen as the money required to subsidize IPL's move to South Africa which will be substantially more than the previous IPL. IPL had agreed to subsidize the difference in operating cost between India and South Africa as it decided to move to the African nation after the security concerns raised because of its coincidence with India's general elections.

20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012, after which the IPL would go public and list its shares.^[12]

Sony-WSG then re-sold parts of the broadcasting rights geographically to other companies. Below is a summary of the broadcasting rights around the world.

Winning Bidder	Regional Broadcast Rights	Terms of Deal
Sony/World Sport Group	Global Rights, India	10 years at Rs 8700 crores (revised)[10]
ONE HD	Free-to-air HD and SD television in Australia. Owned by Network TEN.	5 years at AUD 10-15 Million.[13]
Sky Network Television	New Zealand broadcast rights	Terms not released
Arab Digital Distribution	Middle East broadcast rights on ADD's ART Prime Sport channel. Will broadcast to United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Libya and Nigeria.	10 Years, terms not released.[14]
Willow TV	Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America.	5 years, terms not released.[15]
SuperSport	South Africa and Nigeria broadcast rights	Terms not released
GEO Super	Pakistan broadcast rights	Terms not released
Asian Television Network	Canadian broadcast rights. Aired on ATN's CBN & ATN Cricket Plus channels on a subscription basis. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well.	5 years, terms not released.[16]

[edit] Sponsorships

India's biggest property developer DLF Group has paid US $40 million to be the title sponsor of the tournament for 5 years.[2]

[edit] Global following

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In India, the IPL has become one of the most popular events of the year^{[citation needed]}. Around the world, reception has varied. In Pakistan the reception was described by Pakistani cricinfo editor Osman Samiuddin as 'massive', suggesting that it attracted even non-regular cricket followers and that the popularity of the Kolkata Knight Riders was great.^[17] GEO Super telecasted the matches and also included a popular show called Inside IPL. A similar positive reaction was seen in Sri Lanka, with interest in the Mumbai Indians being large due to the presence of cricket hero Sanath Jayasuriya. Bangladesh has also positively reacted despite only one Bangladeshi player being involved. The Knight Riders were the most popular team. These subcontinental countries were also helped in that the time-slot of the matches fitted in with prime time in these nations.

South Africa has seen moderate viewership of the IPL, however, many were unable to relate to any of the teams, although a large number simply supported Mumbai Indians because of the presence of Shaun Pollock. The timing worked in South Africa but the IPL did not overcome the power of Premier League football or rugby. In England, although the country's governing body did not allow its players to take part, the IPL was very popular with the Asian Population .

In the West Indies, the IPL became so popular that it, according to Vaneisa Baksh, threatened to overtake test cricket completely in 'certain sections of West Indian fans'. While free-to-air coverage has not been complete and it has not ignited passions, it has remained a popular watch.

The IPL was less popular in Australia and New Zealand, mainly due to the time zone differences. Nevertheless, the IPL consistently won its free-to-air timeslot of 8:30 P.M. and 12:30 A.M. Australian Time, and 10:30 P.M. and 2:30 A.M. New Zealand Time for subscription TV.

Snap polls indicate that more than 24 million people watched the telecast of the gripping IPL 2008 finals (Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings),more than 20 million people saw the Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils match, whereas the second semi-final between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab attracted an audience of 19 million. ^[18]

[edit] Impact on the game

Twenty20 cricket in general has resulted in a more 'exposive', athletic form of cricket..[3]. As IPL, is one of the most popular sporting events of the year in India, younsters playing the game have become aware of this fact too. While cricket teams throughout the country have become more professional in approaching fitness related training, there is strong anectodal evidence to suggest that children playing the game are also becoming more fitness conscious(in line with the general trend of fitness interest in the country and across the world)

[edit] Rules

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The official rules for the tournament are here.

There are five ways that a franchise can acquire a player. In the annual auction, buying domestic players, signing uncapped players through trading and buying replacements.^[19][20] In the trading window the player can only be traded with his consent. The franchise will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new contract is worth more than the older one then the difference will be shared between the player and the franchise selling the player.^[21]

Some of the Team composition rules are:

• Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach.
• No more than 8 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI.For the 2009 edition franchises are allowed 10 foreign players in the squad. The number allowed in the playing XI remains unchanged at 4.
• A minimum of 8 local players must be included in each team.
• A minimum of 2 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each team.

The players accorded "icon" status are: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag. The total spending cap for a franchisee in the first player auction was US $5m. Under-22 players are to be remunerated with a minimum annual salary of US $20,000 while for others it is US $50,000. Icon players are to be paid 15% more than the highest paid player in their respective teams.

[edit] Official website

The IPL negotiated a contract with the Canadian company Live Current Media Inc. to run and operate its portals and the minimum guarantee has been negotiated at US $50 million over the next 10 years.^[22] The official website of the tournament is www.iplt20.com.

[edit] Statistics and records

[edit] List of hat tricks

No.	Season	Date	Hattrick Taker	Victims	For	Against	Team's Hattrick total
1	2008 Indian Premier League	10th May 2008	Lakshmipathy Balaji	Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, VRV Singh	Chennai Super Kings	Kings XI Punjab	1
2	2008 Indian Premier League	15th May 2008	Amit Mishra	Dwaraka Ravi Teja, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha	Delhi Daredevils	Deccan Chargers	1
3	2008 Indian Premier League	18th May 2008	Makhaya Ntini	Sourav Ganguly, Debabrata Das, David Hussey	Chennai Super Kings	Kolkata Knight Riders	2
4	2009 Indian Premier League	1st May 2009	Yuvraj Singh	Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis	Kings XI Punjab	Royal Challengers Bangalore	1
5	2009 Indian Premier League	6th May 2009	Rohit Sharma	Abhishek Nayar, Harbhajan Singh, JP Duminy	Deccan Chargers	Mumbai Indians	1
6	2009 Indian Premier League	17th May 2009	Yuvraj Singh	Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao	Kings XI Punjab	Deccan Chargers	2

[edit] Revenue and profits

The Indian Government earned Rs 91 crore as tax revenue from the 1st season of the IPL. ^[23]

[edit] Franchise earnings

The first season that concluded on 1 June 2008 was a huge success for the IPL. It should be noted that during the first season no one had expected the franchises to break even since most of them had paid huge amounts to buy the clubs, but the table below shows that some of them are already profitable from Season 1.^[24]

Franchise	Revenues	Expenses	Profit/Loss (Rupees Crores)
Mumbai Indians	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 20 c. Gate Receipts - 14 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 69	a. Franchise Fees - 45 b. Team Expenses - 20 c. Advertising & Admin - 20 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 85	Net Loss - -16
Royal Challengers Bangalore	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 0 c. Gate Receipts - 10 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 45	a. Franchise Fees - 48 b. Team Expenses - 22 c. Advertising/Admin - 18 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 88	Net Loss - -43
Deccan Chargers	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 17 ; c. Gate Receipts - 12 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 64	a. Franchise Fees - 45 b. Team Expenses - 24 c. Advertising/Admin - 13 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 82	Net Loss - -18
Chennai Super Kings	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 25 c. Gate Receipts - 12.8 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 72.8	a. Franchise Fees - 36 b. Team Expenses - 24 c. Advertising/Admin - 13 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 73	Net Loss - -0.2
Delhi Daredevils	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 20 c. Gate Receipts - 15.4 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 70.4	a. Franchise Fees - 34 b. Team Expenses - 23 c. Advertising/Admin - 20 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 77	Net Loss - -6.6
Kings XI Punjab	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 22 c. Gate Receipts - 9 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 66	a. Franchise Fees - 30.4 b. Team Expenses - 25 c. Advertising/Admin - 13 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 68.4	Net Loss - -2.4
Kolkata Knight Riders	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 34 c. Gate Receipts - 20 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 89	a. Franchise Fees - 31 b. Team Expenses - 25 c. Advertising/Admin - 20 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 76	Net Profit - +13
Rajasthan Royals	a. Broadcasting Rights - 35 b. Team Sponsors - 16 c. Gate Receipts - 8 Total Revenues(a+b+c) - 59	a. Franchise Fees - 27 b. Team Expenses - 13 c. Advertising/Admin - 13 Total Expenses(a+b+c) - 53	Net Profit - +6

• All Figures are in Indian Rupees crores (1 crore = 10,000,000 Rupees = 201,176 United States Dollars = 152,444 Euro on June 1, 2008 ^[25])

[edit] Controversies

The BCCI had found itself in the middle of many conflicts with various cricket boards around the world as a result of the IPL. The main point of contention was that signed players should always be available to their country for international tours, even if it overlaps with the IPL season. To address this, the BCCI officially requested that the ICC institute a time period in the International Future Tours Program solely for the IPL season. This request was not granted at a subsequent meeting held by the ICC. ^[26]

[edit] Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board

Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players. The ECB made it abundantly clear that they would not sign No Objection Certificates for players—a prerequisite for playing in the IPL. Chairmen of the county clubs also made it clear that players contracted to them were required to fulfill their commitment to their county. As a result of this, Dimitri Mascarenhas was the only English player to have signed with the IPL for the 2008 season.^[27]

A result of the ECB’s concerns about players joining the IPL, was a proposed radical response of creating their own Twenty20 tournament that would be similar in structure to the IPL. The league — titled the English Premier League — would feature 21 teams in three groups of seven and would occur towards the end of the summer season. ^[28] The ECB enlisted the aid of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford to launch the proposed league.^[29] Stanford was the brains behind the successful Stanford 20/20, a tournament that has run twice in the West Indies. On 17 February 2009, when news of the fraud investigation against Stanford became public, the ECB and WICB withdrew from talks with Stanford on sponsorship.^[30][31] On February 20 the ECB announced it has severed its ties with Stanford and cancelled all contracts with him.^[32]

[edit] Conflicts with Cricket Australia

The BCCI also experienced run-ins with Cricket Australia (CA) over player availability for Australia’s tour of the West Indies and CA’s desire for global protection of their sponsors. CA had feared that sponsors of the IPL (and its teams) that directly competed with their sponsors would jeopardize already existing arrangements. This issue was eventually resolved ^[33] and it was also agreed upon that Australian players would be fully available for the West Indies tour.

[edit] Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board

Many players from the Pakistan Cricket Team who were not offered renewed central contracts (or decided to reject new contracts) decided to join the rival Indian Cricket League(ICL). Two such players—Naved-ul-Hasan and Mushtaq Ahmed also held contracts with English Counties. The PCB decided to issue No Objection Certificates for these players to play with their county teams on the basis that since they were no longer contracted to the PCB, there was no point in not granting them their NOCs. The latter did not sit well with the BCCI, as it went against the hard line stance they had taken on players who joined the ICL

[edit] Conflicts with other Boards

Smaller boards like the WICB and NZCB have raised concerns over the impact the IPL will have on their player development and already fragile financial situation. Since players from smaller cricketing nations are not compensated as much, they have more motivation to join the IPL.

[edit] Media restrictions

Initially the IPL enforced strict guidelines to media covering Premier League matches, consistent with their desire to use the same model sports leagues in North America use in regards to media coverage. Notable guidelines imposed included the restriction to use images taken during the event unless purchased from cricket.com, owned by Live Current Media Inc (who won the rights to such images) and the prohibition of live coverage from the cricket grounds. Media agencies also had to agree to upload all images taken at IPL matches to the official website. This was deemed unacceptable by print media around the world. Upon the threat of boycott, the IPL eased up on several of the restrictions.^[34] On 15 April 2008 a revised set of guidelines offering major concessions to the print media and agencies was issued by the IPL and accepted by the Indian Newspaper Society.^[35]

Even with the amended restrictions, specialist cricket websites such as cricinfo and cricket365 continued to be banned from providing live coverage from the grounds and from purchasing match images from press agencies. As a result, on 18 April several major international agencies including Reuters and AFP announced their decision to provide no coverage of the IPL.^[36]

[edit] Conflict with Cricket Club of India

As per IPL rules, the winner of the previous competition decides the venue for the finals.^[37] In 2009, the reigning Champions, Rajasthan Royals chose the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.^[38] However, a dispute regarding use of the pavilion meant that no IPL matches could be held there. The members of the Cricket Club of India that owns the stadium have the sole right to the pavilion on match days, whereas the IPL required the pavilion for its sponsors.^[39] The members were offered free seats in the stands, however the club rejected the offer, stating that members could not be moved out of the pavilion. ^[40][41][42]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Home of IPL Indian Premier League
• IPLCraze.com - Premium Indian Premier League Resource
• cricket20 - Indian Premier League Coverage
• IPLkhabar.com - Indian Premier League Coverage in Hindi
• Takath.com An Indian fitness/sports site

v • d • e Indian Premier League Seasons 2008 · 2009 Participating teams Chennai Super Kings · Deccan Chargers · Delhi Daredevils · Kings XI Punjab · Kolkata Knight Riders · Mumbai Indians · Rajasthan Royals · Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL 2008 Stadiums PCA Stadium, Mohali  · DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai  · Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai  · Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad  · M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai  · Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi  · Eden Gardens, Kolkata  · Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur  · M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore IPL 2009 Stadiums Sahara Park Kingsmead, Durban  · Supersport Park, Centurion  · Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town  · New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg  · St George's Park, Port Elizabeth  · Buffalo Park, East London  · OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein  · De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley Statistics and Records Team records · Series records · Batting records · Bowling records · Wicketkeeping & fielding records · Partnership records · Miscellaneous records

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