This is not the final composition of the Mumbai IPL squad; the final eleven will be known only later. Post-auction, the Mumbai squad stands as below:
Mumbai:
Sachin Tendulkar
Sanath Jayasuriya
Loots Bosman
Shaun Pollock
Robin Uthappa
Lasith Malinga
Dilhara Fernando
Harbhajan Singh
Title sponsorship: DLF India, Real Estate developer ( $50 million for five years)
Media rights: Sony Entertainment Television (India), Singapore-headquartered WSG, (10 years, $918 million for telecast rights and 108 million for promotion of the tournament)
Teams and Franchise owners:
Mumbai: Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector group promoted by billionaire Mukesh Ambani ($111.9 million)
Bangalore: UB Group, promoted [...]
Auction’s top 5:
The players who were bought for the highest figures:
M S Dhoni Chennai $1,500,000
Andrew Symonds (Aus) Hyderabad $1,350,000
Sanath Jayasuriya Mumbai $975,000
Ishant Sharma Kolkata $950,000
Irfan Pathan Mohali $925,000
Tidbit: Who was the surprise loser? Ricky Ponting. Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata got him for [...]
Team Icons:
Sachin Tendulkar, Mumbai ( $ 1,121,250)
Rahul Dravid, Bangalore ($1,035,000)
Sourav Ganguly, Kolkata ($1,092,500)
Yuvraj Singh, Mohali ($1,063,750)
Virender Sehwah, Delhi ($833,750)
*Icon players get 15 percent higher pay than the top player in the squad
It is the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s response to the Indian Cricket League (ICL) launched by the ZEE Group last year. The format is Twenty20. The IPL has been approved by the International Cricket Council.
Eight teams will take part in the IPL. The teams were allotted to various corporate groups and conglomerates [...]