Hyderabad IPL team composition after the auctions. Final composition will be known only later.
VS Laxman
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Herschelle Gibbs
Shahid Afridi
Andrew Symonds
Rohit Sharma
Chamara Silva
Rudra Pratap Singh
Scott Styris
Chaminda Vaas
Nuwan Zoysa
This is what the Delhi dareDevils IPL Twenty20 team looks like post-auction.
Virender Sehwag
AB de Villiers
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Gautam Gambhir
Dinesh Karthik
Glenn McGrath
Farveez Maharoof
Mohammad Asif
Shoaib Malik
Manoj Tiwary
Daniel Vettori
Greg Shipperd
This is not the final Chennai Super Kings IPL team; the final eleven will be known only later. Post-auction, Chennai team is:
MS Dhoni ,
Stephen Fleming
Matthew Hayden ,
Michael Hussey
Joginder Sharma
Albie Morkel
Muttiah Muralitharan
Makhaya Ntini
Jacob Oram
Parthiv Patel (wk)
Suresh Raina
This is not the final composition of the Bangalore Royal Challengers IPL squad; the final eleven will be known only later. Post-auction, the Bangalore team stands as below:
Squads after auction (Final eleven will be known only later):
Rahul Dravid
Mark Boucher (wk)
Nathan Bracken
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Wasim Jaffer
Jacques Kallis
Zaheer Khan
Anil Kumble
Dale Steyn
Cameron White
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 [...]