Contents

1 History o 1.1 First season o 1.2 Second season o 1.3 Third season o 1.4 Fourth season 2 IPL Trophy o 2.1 2008-2010 o 2.2 2011-2013 3 League organization o 3.1 Franchises o 3.2 Rules 4 Statistics and records o 4.1 Winners o 4.2 Performance of teams o 4.3 Player signings 5 Television rights and sponsorships o 5.1 Television rights o 5.2 Sponsorships o 5.3 Revenue and Profits o 5.4 Mobile applications o 5.5 Official website 6 Global following 7 Statistics o 7.1 Highest totals o 7.2 Lowest totals o 7.3 Individual records

9 References

Indian Premier League

What is the Indian Premier League (IPL) The Indian Premier League, created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC), is a Twenty20 cricket competition. It is the brainchild of BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi and is modelled along the lines of club football in Europe, which is unlike anything cricket has known in the past. The best players from around the world will not play according to their nationality but as per the market forces. Big money involved The sheer big money of the IPL is unprecedented at this level of cricket. The BCCI has already made close to US$ 1.75 billion solely from the sale of TV rights ($908 million), promotion ($108 million) and franchises (approximately $700 million). Players are expected to earn close to US$1 million for a three-year contract. It's an entire cricket economy out there. Top cricketers involved There are 77 names in the competition. MS Dhoni, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Shoaib Akhtar, Jayawardene, Jayasuriya, Yuvraj and Hayden are some of the big names. The process The tournament is scheduled to begin on April 18, 2008 and will last for 44 days, involving 59 matches. The prize money for the league will be around Rs 13 crore (US $3million).

Each team will have a pool of 16 players, of whom eight can be international and four from the Under-22 level or from the catchment area where the team is based. The governing council consists of Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi, Sunil Gavaskar, MAK Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, Rajiv Shukla, Chirayu Amin, Inderjit Singh Bindra and Arun Jaitley. Although it is going to be a franchise system, some foreign players have already been contracted by the BCCI to play in the IPL. Fixtures Each team will play the other 7 teams home and away, the top four teams at the end of the group stages will go through to the semi finals. Format 8 teams 16 players in a squad Difference between IPL and ICL Unlike the Indian Cricket League (ICL), the IPL is an official sanctioned Twenty20 tournament. Owing to its recognition by the International Cricket Council (ICC), it will enjoy a better status and international reach. Also each team has individual owners.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI

Vice President Rajeev Shukla,[5] who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner. It is currently contested by 10 teams consisting of players from around the world. It was started after an altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League. In 2010, IPL became the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on YouTube in association with Indiatimes.[7] Its brand value is estimated to be around $3.67 billion in fourth season.[8][9] According to the Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries by sportingintelligence.com, IPL is the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro rata basis, second only to the NBA. It is estimated that the average salary of an IPL player over a year would be $3.84 million.[10] History A Chennai vs Kolkata match at the M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium won by Chennai Super Kings. The inaugural season of the tournament started on 18 April 2008 and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. The final was played in DY Patil Stadium, Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Every team played each other both at home and away in a round robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final. Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings in a last ball thriller and emerged as the inaugural IPL champions. Second season The 2009 season coincided with the General Elections in India. Owing to concerns regarding players' security, the venue was shifted to South Africa. The format of the tournament remained same as the inaugural one. Deccan

Chargers, who finished last in the first season,were big underdogs, but came out as eventual winners defeating the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final. Deccan set a target of 144 with the help of Gibbs(53) and defended it. Third season The third season opened in January 2010 with the auction for players. 66 players were on offer but only 11 players were sold. In this season, Deccan Chargers did not play at their preferred home location of Hyderabad, India due to the ongoing political crisis in the Telangana region . The new bases for the champions this season were Nagpur, Navi Mumbai and Cuttack. Four teams qualified for the semi-finals. The first semi-final was won by Mumbai Indians who defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by 35 runs. Chennai Super Kings defeated Deccan Chargers in the second semi-final. The final was played between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. Chennai Super Kings won by a margin of 22 runs. Fourth season

Chennai Super Kings are the most successful team in the tournament winning the championship twice and qualifying for the top four every time. On 21 March 2010, it was announced in Chennai that two new teams from Pune and Kochi will be added to the IPL for the fourth season. However, the

bid around the Kochi franchisee turned controversial resulting in the resignation of minister, Shashi Tharoor from the Central Government and investigations by various departments of the Government of India into the financial dealings of IPL and the other existing franchisees. Later, Lalit Modi was also removed from IPL chairmanship by BCCI. On 5 December 2010, it was confirmed that Kochi will take part in the fourth season of IPL. The addition of teams representing Pune and Kochi was to have increased the number of franchises from 8 to 10. The BCCI originally considered extending the tournament format used in previous season to ten teams, which would increase the number of matches from 60 to 94. Instead, the round-robin stage of the tournament was to have been replaced by a group stage with two groups of five, limiting the number of matches to 74. But this format was replaced by another one in which each team would play 5 other teams in a two-way round robin format and there would be 2 teams against whom they would play only at home and remaining 2 teams against which they would play only away matches.Thus each team plays 14 matches.Top four teams would qualify for the semi-finals. In October 2010, the Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab had their franchises terminated for breaching ownership rules. The new Kochi franchise was also issued a warning to resolve all their ownership disputes. Two months later both teams were finally allowed to take part in the 2011 edition after a court ruling. Chennai Super Kings won their second consecutive IPL title after defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs in the fourth season of IPL.CSK had beaten RCB in the playoffs too while RCB defeated Mumbai Indians to reach the final. This is the first time a franchise has won two IPL titles, had four consecutive semi-final visits, come to the finals three times, and successfully defended their title. The top four teams namely CSK, RCB, KKR and MI have

also qualified for the Champions League. Mumbai Indians are the current Champions League Twenty20 champions. IPL Trophy 2008-2010 The diamond-encrusted trophy of DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) Cricket was designed by Orra brand, owned by Antwerp-based Rosy Blue Group. It comprises a player in a gold leafing. He is shown holding a bat in his hand, next to a map of India. On the map, the names of all the IPL teams have been engraved by rubies. It took a team of as many as 14 craftsmen to make the trophy. Every year, the winners of the IPL T20 tournament are presented with a replica of this trophy, along with the prize money. 2011-2013 A new trophy has been designed for IPL 4 in view of the two new teams which are now in the fray. It has been changed to a large cup instead of a map of India. League organization Franchises The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008. While the total base price for auction was US $400 million, the auction fetched US $723.59 million. On 21 March 2010, Pune and Kochi were unveiled as the two new franchises for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. The base price was $225 million. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was bought by Rendezvous Sports World Limited

for $333.3 million. The process was to have been completed on March 7 but was postponed by two weeks after many bidders and the BCCI objected to stiff financial clauses. The second franchise auction fetched total $703 million. Head Coach

Team Name

City

Owner(s) Mukesh Ambani

Captain

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai

(Owners Reliance

of

Sachin Tendulkar

Robin Singh

Royal Bangalore

Challengers

Bengaluru

Industries) Vijay Mallya Daniel (UB Group) T.Venkatram Reddy (Deccan Chronicle) group Vettori

Ray Jennings

Hyderabad Chargers

Deccan

Hyderabad

Kumar Sangakkara

Darren Lehmann

Chennai Super Kings Delhi Daredevils

Chennai New Delhi

India Cements GMR Group Ness Preity Dabur, Apeejay Surendera Wadia, Zinta,

Mahendra

Stephen

Singh Dhoni Fleming Virender Greg Sehwag Shipperd

Kings XI Punjab

Mohali

Adam Gilchrist

Michael Bevan

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata

Group Red Chillies Gautam Entertainment Gambhir

Trevor Bayliss

Emerging Media Rajasthan Royals Jaipur (Lachlan Murdoch), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra Subrato Roy Geoff Marsh Geoff Rahul Dravid Shane Warne

Pune Warriors India Kochi Tuskers Kerala Rules

Pune Kochi

Sahara Kochi Cricket Mahela Private Ltd

Yuvraj Singh

Jayawardene Lawson

There are five ways that a franchise can acquire a player. In the annual auction, buying domestic players, signing uncapped players, through trading and buying replacements. In the trading window the player can only be traded with his consent. The franchise will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new contract is worth more than the older one then the difference will be shared between the player and the franchise selling the player. Some of the Team composition rules are:

Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach. No more than 10 foreign players in the squad and maximum 4 foreign Minimum of 8 Indian players must be included in each squad. A minimum of 2 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each squad.

players should be in the playing eleven.

Some of the differences to international Twenty20 cricket:

A difference to international cricket is a timeout. It gives the players

an opportunity to strategise and take a drink during the strict 2 minutes, 30 seconds time limit. Each team is awarded two timeouts per innings totalling to four timeouts for the whole game. The teams can take the timeout when instructed, but is necessary to take it from 6th to 9th and 13th to 16th over.

IPL is also known for having commercials during the game, hence

there is no time limit for teams to complete their innings. However, there may be a penalty if the umpires find teams misusing this privilege at their own choice. The total spending cap for a franchisee in the first player auction was US $5 million. Under-22 players are to be remunerated with a minimum annual salary of US $20,000 while for others it is US $50,000. The most expensive players in the IPL to date is Gautam Gambhir of India fetched the highest price of $2.4 million from Kolkata Knight Riders at the auction for season 4 Statistics and records Winners Season 2008 2009 2010 2011 Winners Runners-up Teams Rajasthan Royals Chennai Super Kings 8 Deccan Chargers Royal Challengers Bangalore 8 Chennai Super Kings Mumbai Indians 8 Chennai Super Kings Royal Challengers Bangalore 10

Performance of teams No Resu

Team

Spa Titl Match Wo Los n es es 63 n t

Win %

For (r/o)

Against (r/o)

Best

Wor st

Chennai 200 2

lt 36 25 2

58.0 4,752

/ 4,475

/ Champions Sem

Team

Spa Titl Match Wo Los n 8 11 es es n t

No Resu lt

Win %

For (r/o)

Against (r/o)

Best (2

Wor st is 8th of 8 10th

Super Kings

574.4

569.1

Consecutiv final e)

Deccan 200 Charger 8 s Delhi ls Kings XI Punjab 11 200 0 56 28 28 1 11 200 8 11 0 56 27 28 0 1 59 24 35 0

40.6 4,637 7 580.2

/ 4,694 582.4 / 4,330 547.0 / 4,274 529.1

Champions

Daredevi 8

50.0 4,219 0 524.5

Semi-finals of 10

49.1 4,251 0 531.1

Semi-finals Play-

8th of 8

Kolkata 200 Knight Riders Mumbai Indians Rajastha n Royals Royal Challeng 200 ers e Pune 8 0 58 29 29 1 Bangalor 11 201 0 14 4 8 0 8 11 200 8 11 200 8 11 1 55 29 25 1 0 60 33 26 1 0 52 23 28 2

45.1 3,602 9 491.3

/ 3,585 459.3

/ Offs(Elimin 8th ator - 4th of 8 of 10)

55.0 3,977 0 505.3

/ 3,898 523.1 / 4,213 564.2

/ Runnersup /

7th of 8 7th of 8

53.6 4,289 3 554.2

Champions

50.0 4,263 0 587.3

/ 4,521 574.5

Runners Up Times) (2

7th of 8

33.3 1657/22 1739/23 9th of 10

9th

Team Warriors India Kochi Tuskers Kerala

Spa Titl Match Wo Los n 1 201 1 es es n t

No Resu lt

Win % 3

For (r/o)

Against (r/o) 7.4

Best

Wor st of 10 8th

7.3

14

42.8 1901/25 1989/26 6 6.2 0.4

8th of 10

of 10

Player signings The first players' auctions were held on 2008. The IPL placed icon status on a select few marquee Indian players. These players were Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag. VVS Laxman initially named an icon player, later voluntarily opted out of his icon status to give his team (Deccan Chargers) more money to bid for players.
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For the second season, auctions were also held, but free signings taking

place in the off-season by franchises led to calls for a draft-like system where the lowest ranked teams would be given a first opportunity to sign players.

Television rights and sponsorships

The IPL is predicted to bring the BCCI income of approximately US$1.6 billion, over a period of five to ten years. All of these revenues are directed to a central pool, 40% of which will go to IPL itself, 54% to franchisees and 6% as prize money. The money will be distributed in these proportions until 2017, after which the share of IPL will be 50%, franchisees 45% and prize

money 5%. The IPL signed up Kingfisher Airlines as the official umpire partner for the series in a 106 crore (US$20.14 million) (approximately 15 million) deal. This deal sees the Kingfisher Airlines brand on all umpires' uniforms and also on the giant screens during third umpire decisions. Television rights On 15 January 2008 it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.
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The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US $1.026 billion.

As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US $918 million for the television broadcast rights and US $108 million for the promotion of the tournament. This deal was challenged in the Bombay High Court by IPL, and got the ruling on its side. After losing the battle in court, Sony Entertainment Television signed a new contract with BCCI with Sony Entertainment Television paying 8,700 crore (US$1.65 billion) for 10 years. One of the reasons for payment of this huge amount is seen as the money required to subsidize IPL's move to South Africa which will be substantially more than the previous IPL. IPL had agreed to subsidize the difference in operating cost between India and South Africa as it decided to move to the African nation after the security concerns raised because of its coincidence with India's general elections. 20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012, after which the IPL would go public and list its shares (But in March 2010, IPL decided not to go public)

Sony-WSG then re-sold parts of the broadcasting rights geographically to other companies. Below is a summary of the broadcasting rights around the world. On 4 March 2010 ITV announced it had secured the United Kingdom television rights for the 2010 Indian Premier League. ITV will televise 59 of the 60 IPL matches on its ITV4 free to air channel. On April 1, 2011, Rogers Sportsnet announced that it signed a four year exclusive deal in Canada to broadcast 36 group stage matches, 3 playoff matches and 1 championship match on Rogers Sportsnet One.