New Zealand supports the Indian Premier League

There are many New Zealandars participating in the Indian Premier League, the list of players include the former captain Stephan Fleming, the present captain Daniel Vettori and many more of them. There were a few cricketers from the New Zealand who joined the Indian Premier League after the completion of the first biding like Peter Fulton, Chris Martin.

They recieved a great response from the teams owners at the auction conducted for the players. Players who joined after the first auction participated in the second auction and were bid for good amounts.

New Zealand cricket board has also got on to the list of supporters for the Indian Premier League. They said that the BCCI is managing the league preventing all the controversies and clashes with other cricket boards.

New Zealand cricket Board has allowed it’s players to join their tour of england on may 1st so that they can play a few matches in the Indian Premier League. Previously there were rumors that the players are going to miss the tour as they are scheduled to play in the Indian Premier League. New Zealand cricket board consulted all their players and came to a decision that they will join the tour lately on march 1st after playing a few matches in Indian Premier League.

The New Zealand cricket board stated that the decision taken by them is fair and will produce more cricketing outcome. It also stated that this agreement is accepted by the england and wales cricket board.

The New Zealand players will join the tour on may 1st i.e., 14 days before the start of the test series against England. The players participating in Indian Premier League will be missing the match against the kent.

New Zealand cricket board stated that all their players will be present on or before 1st of and may and they will have two weeks time for their practise. Before the test match there will be two practise matches held.

The New Zealand cricketers participating in the Indian Premier League are Daniel Vettori ,the captain of the team, Brendon Mccullum(vice captain), Jacob oram, Ross Taylor and Kyle Mills.

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Indian Premier League Teams

MUMBAI INDIANS

The name "Mumbai Indians" will represent the Mumbai team for the Indian Premier League . The team will be lead by the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, the iconic player of the Mumbai team.

This team was previously bought by the Reliance Industries chairman, Mukesh Ambani at the auction on the January 26th. They bought this team for the highest amount in the Indian Premier League, $111.6 million.

The colour of their costumes will be blue. The name Indians is really a blunder by the team management as it doesn’t seem to be apt for the team.

This team has successfully gained seven good players at the auction held in Mumbai for the players. This list includes the Harbajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, and Sanath Jayasurya.

It also has some all-rounders like Shawn Pollack included in the team. When it comes to the bowlers, there are a few good names in the list like Lasith Malinga and Dilshan. Ashish Nehra, ex-Indian pace bowler is also included in the team.

With this strong line-up Mumbai team is expected to perform well in the "Indian Premier League".

Lal Chand Rajputh, former Indian team manager is the coach for the Mumbai Indians. R.Balachandran will be the CEO and M.Ambani will be the President of the team.


BANGLORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS

The name "Bangalore Royal Challengers" will represent the Bangalore team in the Indian Premier League . This team is owned by the Liquor king in India Dr.Vijay Malaya. Former captain of Indian Cricket team Rahul Dravid is the captain of this team and is also the iconic player for the Bangalore Royal Challengers.

Previously the team was bought by the kingfisher group chairman Dr.Vijay Malaya for an astonishing amount of $111.6 million, which stood the second highest amount after the Mumbai team.

Malaya wanted to associate his top liquor brands McDowell’s or Royal challenge with his team but at last he selected the brand Royal Challenge for that.

Dipika Padukone and Katrina Kaif, top Bollywood actresses will be Brand Ambassadors for the Bangalore Royal Challengers.

The Bangalore Royal Challengers have quit a few top players in their List. South African All-rounder Jacques Kallis was the costliest player in the team who was successfully bid for $900,000. Other players include Indian test team captain Anil Kumble along with Praveen Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Sivanarayan Chandra Paul, Mark Boucher…

Vekatesh Prasad, the bowling coach of the Indian Cricket Team will be the coach for this team.

Charu Sharma will be the CEO and Vijay Malaya will be the president of this team. Former New Zealand captain and cousin of Hollywood actor Russell Crowe will be the Advisor for this team.


CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

The name "Chennai Super Kings" will be representing the Chennai team in the Indian Premier League . This team was previously acquired by the Indian cement group for an amount of $91 million for the next ten years.

This is team which acquired the highest paid player of the Indian Premier League Mahender Singh Dhoni. He is made the captain of the team as there is no iconic player for this team.

Former India test player Kris Srikanth, Tamil Actor Vijay and Actress Nayana Tara are the brand ambassadors for this team.

Even this team has some great players in their list apart from Mahender Singh Dhoni. This list includes top players like Muralidharan, Mathew Hayden, Mike Hussey, Stephen Fleming and all-rounder like Albe Morkel, Jacob Oram… who performed well in the T20 World Cup. This team will also have players from Kerala and Railways.

Former Indian Opening Batsman V.B.Chandra Shekar will be the chief selector and Kepller Wessels will be the coach for this team.

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Sri Lanka trying to make it's way to the Indian Premier League

Sri Lankan cricket board asked the Pakistani cricket board to postpone the series with them in order to prevent the clash with the Indian Premier League .

The Sri Lankan cricket board said that their top players like Jayasurya, Dilashan may not be available for the series as they are participating in the Indian Premier League which is going to start from April 18th.

This series was scheduled after the cancellation of the series with the Australia. This series is scheduled with five One-day matches starting from April23rd to May5th, but as these dates are coinciding with Matches scheduled in Indian Premier League players may not be available for the series.

Previously the Pakistan cricket board offered $800,000 to the Sri Lankan cricket board for the participation in this series, but only in the presence of the whole team.

The Sri Lankan cricket board has already stated that they have released their players for the participation in the Indian Premier League and they cannot cancel it now.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah has already expressed his displeasure about the series against Pakistan.

The "Indian Premier League" is all set to start from April 18th. The teams in this league include top players from different countries in their line up. All the players in the teams are previously auctioned and are bought by different teams with their costs ranging from $100,000 to $1.5million.

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Kingfisher Airlines Grabbed the Umpiring Rights for the Indian Premier League

Kingfisher Airlines, the five star airlines in India has grabbed the Umpiring rights for the Indian Premier League . Their brand label will be pasted on the costumes of the umpires and also for all the third umpire decisions. They grabbed these rights for $106 million for a period of five years.

The chairman for the Kingfisher group Dr. Vijay Malaya felt really happy for grabbing the umpiring rights. He stated that the brand value for their Airlines will increase with this advertisement. He said that he will present the umpires with unique costumes to present their brand style.

Lalit Modi, the chairman of DLF "Indian Premier League" said he is happy that country’s five star Airline Company is sponsoring the Umpiring rights for the Indian premier league.

Earlier the television rights for the Indian Premier League were grabbed by the Sony group for $1 billion for the next 10 years and the franchises were bought by Industrialists like Malaya, Ambani and film actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Preethi Zinta.

The Indian Premier League is all set to start on April 18th and will last for around 44 days with a total of 59 matches. The matches are going to be conducted in afternoon and evening times to encourage the stadium viewers.

There will be a total 117 hours of family entertainment all this summer through this Indian Premier league. The matches are scheduled on the basis such that each team will play 7 matches at their home ground.

There will be a total of seven teams from which four teams will be selected to the semifinals that will fight for the finals and the winner in the finals will grab the cup along with huge prize money.

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Indian Premier League second Bidding

The second bidding for the Indian Premier League
was conducted on the 11th March 2008. This bidding was conducted to bid the left over players and also the newly joined players in the Indian Premier League. The first bidding of this league was really a money mania where all the top players were bid for huge amounts.

Before the second bidding there were a few players who joined the Indian Premier League like Maskarenus, Abdur Razakk, Peter Fulton, Jeethan Patel, Chris Martin, James Franklin and there were also players who were left out in the first bidding like Ashley Prince, Shane Watson, Brad Hodge.

The second Bidding has gone smoothly without much thrill in bidding. All the players had gone for a normal amount unlike the first bidding where the bidding amount crossed the $ 1 million mark. The representatives of the respective franchises were present at the bidding unlike the first bidding of the Indian Premier League where even the owners of the franchises like Sharukh Khan, Vijay Mallaya and Preethi Zintha were present at the bidding.

The second bidding is only for those teams which have not yet crossed the maximum bidding amount. Teams like Jaipur invested very less amount in their first bid. They had a lot of scope in the second bidding had grabbed good players who joined after the first bidding.

The Foreign Players in the Indian Premier League may not be available for the whole tournament. The Australian team management has already announced that the players from their team will be available only for 20 days in the tournament. This does not include the retired players like Adam Gilcrist and players not in the team like Shane Watson and Brad Hodge.

Many of the NewZeland players are available only for a 40% of the tournament as they have a series in that season.

The participation of the England players in the Indian Premier league has been a hot topic since a long time. Many players like Flintoff and Pietersen have announced that they are not going to play in the Indian Premier League. They also stated that they are not going to cross the county cricket. But after the first bid there was a sensation in the England cricket team after joining of Dimitri Maskarenus. He got a great response from the franchises in the second bidding. He captured all the attention in the second bidding. He was bid for an amount of $100,000 by the Jaipur team.

There are a few Pakistani players in who joined after first bidding. Sohail Tanveer and MD.Hafeez were among them. There are some players like Misbah and Md.Yousuf who were not selected in the first Bid. They cached great attention in the second Bidding. Misbah cached good attention and was Bid for $125,000 by the Bangalore team.

The highest amount that was bid in this second part was $175,000 for Shane Watson by Mumbai. The next on the list is $125,000 for Misbah-ul-haq by the Bangalore team.

We have to wait and see till April 18th whether these players are going to be successful or not.

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AUSTRALIANS IN INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

There are many Australian taking part in Indian Premier League . After the controversies of racism with Indians in the border gavaskar test series, there was a lot of talk about the participation of the Australian cricketers in Indian premier league. But to the surprise of everyone there is a active participation from their side, many top ranked cricketers like Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilcrist, Mathew Hayden, Andrew Symonds accepted for their participation in the Indian premier league.

But there are questions that “are they doing this for bucks”. Adam Gilicrist has already announced his retirement from the international cricket. There are rumors that he did it for the sake of the participation in Indian premier league.

The bidding programme for the cricketers in Indian premier league recently showed that Indian teams are not that interested in Australian cricketers except for Andrew Symonds who got bid for astonishing 1.5million by the Hyderabad team, but his team Ricky ponting, Mathew Hayden, Shane Warne, glen McGrath were bid for a less amount compared to Symonds.

Many people had different ideas about Symonds after the racism controversy with bajji but he proved to be strong with his astonishing bid. Now there are many talks about how he is going to survive in India. Have to wait and see till April when this mega event, "Indian premier league" is going to start.

The following are the Australian cricketers listed in different teams of Indian Premier League and the amount of their bids.

Andrew Symonds - 1.5 million – Hyderabad

Adam Gilchrest - 700, 000$ - Hyderabad

Cameron white - 500, 000$ - Bangalore

Nathan bracken - 325, 000$ - Bangalore

David hussy - 625, 000$ - Kolkata

Ricky ponting - 400, 000$ - Kolkata

Mathew Hayden - 375, 000$ - Chennai

Michel hussy - 350, 000$ - Chennai

Glenn McGrath - 350, 000$ - Delhi

Shane Warne - 450, 000$ - Jaipur

Justin Langer - 200, 000$ - Jaipur

Brett lee - 900, 000$ - Mohali

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Sony takes away the Indian Premier League rights for $1 Billion

The Sony group which broadcasted the 2003 and 2007 world cups along with the world sport group jointly grabbed the rights for the Indian premier League cricket for the next 10 years for an astonishing amount of $1 Billion.

This deal gives the Sony Company the right to broadcast the series for the next 10 years. The matches will be broadcasted in the set and Sony max channels which broadcasted the ICC world cup.

The rights were actually given as a part of showing them the sympathy for the great loss occurred during the 2007 world cup as a result of the early departure of the Indian team from the world cup. The Sony people had a loss of about $100 million.

The new deal gives the Sony groups the right to broadcast the Indian premier League matches in the south Asia. The world sport group has the international media rights for internet, mobiles etc…

The Sony group had grabbed the rights from ICC to broadcast their events from 2000-2007. The CEO of set India had announced that they are not going to take any more rights from ICC and concentrate more this short form of the game.

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Players cannot have a share in the Indian Premier League Teams

After receiving a great response from Industrialists and film actors for owning the teams in Indian Premier League
, BCCI confirmed that no currently playing cricketers can have a stake with the franchises.

No player can have stake with the teams. These statements were BCCI after the rumors that Sachin is planning to have a stake with Future group to own the Mumbai team. BCCI after listing to the rumors stated that he is a presently playing cricketer and there is no point in him having a stake in a team.

Apart from these BCCI has framed some rules for the players participating in Indian Premier League
. They have to satisfy all the rules for their participation in "Indian Premier League".

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Symonds and Dhoni go for highest bids in IPL

The owner’s of the teams spent lavishly at the auction for the players of "Indian premier league", with mahender singh dhoni captian of Indian team at the top of the list. On the day of auction the bidding of 77 players reached over 40 million, which turned out to be a big sensation for the players in Indian premier league.

The TV rights were sold for an astonishing 1billion $ for next ten years, and the teams were sold to $723 millions.

Chennai won over Mumbai in the race for the Indian captain "Mahendar Singh Dhoni". The people started cheering when the bid crossed the 1million mark. The south Indian team grabbed dhoni for an astonishing amount of $1.5 million.

Dhoni after hearing this news gave an interview to the indiatimes website saying that he was happy about the bid and never felt tensed or lost sleep for the sake of this bid. He is presently captaining the Indian team in the tri series against Australia.

Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds was next in the list in the Indian Premier League after Dhoni who crossed the 1 million mark. He was bid for $1.35 million by the Hyderabad team.

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Sharukh, Preethi, Mallaya, Ambani win the Indian Premier League Bids

The most awaiting 20-20 cricket championship The Indian Premier League received a great response from top Indian actor Sharukh Khan, top industrialists like Mukesh Ambani and Vijay Mallaya who won the bids for the Indian Premier League.

Mukesh Ambani won over Vijay Mallaya for the team Mumbai for $111.9. However Mallaya got away with the Bangalore team for an amount of $111.6.

Sharukh Khan along with his friends Juhi grabbed the kokatha tem and Preethi Zinta along with her Boy friend Industrialist Ness Wadia grabbed the Mohali team.

The others who were in the list are Deccan Chronicle which grabbed the Hyderabad team, GMR which grabbed the Delhi team, Emerging media group which grabbed the Jaipur team.

The others who lost the bids were Sahara, future group, ICICI…

There were rumors that Sharukh was doing this to promote his films. When Modi was asked about it he replied that he loved the game and that’s why he invested in it, there is no question of promoting his films.

The IPL competition will start on April 18th. The matches will be broadcasted on Sony max and SET.


The Bid amounts for the teams are as follows:

Mukesh Ambani - $111.9 million for the Mumbai team.

Vijay Mallaya - $111.6 million for the Bangalore team.

Deccan Chronicle - $107 million for the team Hyderabad.

India Cements - $91 million for Chennai team.

GMR Group - $84 million for the Delhi team.

Sharukh Khan - $75.09 million for the Kolkatha team.

Preethi Zinta -$76 million for the Mohali team.

Emerging Media - $67 million for the Jaipur team.

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