Indian Premier League has officially started an ad campaign, which is titled “Karm Yudh” and with a whooping budget of Rs 100 crore. The ad is created by the ad agency O&M and has been coined by the ad-man Piyush Pandey.
This is the first ad from the promoters of IPL which declares the arrival of [...]
Pakistan’s Misabah-ul-Haq goes to Bangalore Royal Challengers for $125,000
Fourteen players were auctioned in the second and final round of bidding for the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament beginning on April 18, with Australian James Hopes bagging the highest bid of $300,000 from Mohali franchaise owned by Bollywood’s Preity Zinta and friend Ness Wadia.
Dimitri Masceranhas became [...]
The Indian Premier League can never be a lure enough for any player to skip national duty, Australian bastman Mike Hussey has said.
Mike Hussey is yet to sign any IPL contract, but has expressed interest in playing depending on his availability.
Any amount of money won’t be sufficient for players to skip their responsibilities for national [...]
Eighteen players, incuding Pakistan’s Misabah-ul-Haq, Bangladesh’s Mohammed Ashraful and Australia’s Shane Watson, will be up for grabs in the second IPL auction to be held on March 11.
Seven New Zealand players, four Aussies, three Pakistanis, two Bangladeshis and one player each from Sri Lanka and South Africa will be auctioned on March 11.
There are [...]
The cash-rich Indian Premier League has vowed to utilise revenue from the Twenty20 tournament to boost cricket infrastructure in India, with an eye on the 2011 World Cup cricket.
IPL chairman and BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi said improving infrastructure would be the top priority for the BCCI, as it prepared to host the 2011 World Cup [...]
The Indian Premier League (IPL) will conduct its second auction next week, in a move aimed to give room for franchises which have still money left. Franchises can spend a maximum of $5 and a minimum of $3.3 millionfor buying players.
The first IPL auction was held in Mumbai’s Hilton Hotel on February 20th. IPL’s Icon [...]
Sony Entertainment Television, which has bagged the rights for telecast of IPL matches, has found a premier sponsor in Vodafone, India’s third largest mobile service provider.
The DLF IPL premier league’s associate sponsors are Pepsico India , Hyundai and Nokia, as Sony Entertainment Television aims to rake in1.7 billion rupees from the deal, media reports said.
Sony [...]
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 [...]