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 [...]
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) [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]