Prize Money in Indian Premier League 2010 (IPL)

IPL - Indian Premier League, the other name of shower of money in the game of cricket for everyone. The beneficiary will not not only BCCI but players all around the world.

The overall prize money will be around Rs. 20 crore (US $5 million), with the winners taking home Rs. 8 crore ( US $2 million).

The remaining money will be up for grabs in different forms, like man of the match awards and cash prizes. By contrast, the winners of the 2007 ICC World Cup in the Caribbean took home Rs. 4 crore (US $1 million). The Indian team that won the World Twenty20 got half of that.

TV rights have already gone for over US $1 billion. Franchisees have already committed close to US $723 million. Top players are expected to earn minimum Rs. 4-6 crores per season.

Brand IPL touches the sky closer year by year

After capturing the hearts and minds of millions all across the world, Indian Premier League has now crossed another landmark.

According to a recent study by a UK-based brand valuation consultancy, the brand value of the IPL has more than doubled to USD 4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) from USD 2.01 billion in 2009.

Interestingly, brand IPL has a higher valuation than English Premier League club Manchester United, which is valued close to USD 3 billion.

"The IPL brand alone has risen significantly from the previous year's valuation providing tremendous economic value to its owner BCCI," Brand Finance, the brand valuation consultancy, said in a media release.

"In comparison to international benchmarks for sporting business such as EPL (English Premier League) which is valued at $12 billion, the IPL juggernaut, in a short span of 3 years, is valued at $4 billion and has the potential to grow further," said Unni Krishnan, Managing Director of Brand Finance India.

"A huge amount of intellectual property is being created by the complete IPL ecosystem which was sustained despite last year's difficult economic conditions. This demonstrates the exponential value of IPL and the brand potential in a cricket loving country like India and other global cricketing countries," Brand Finance said in a release.

The franchises have been a part of this growth. Chennai Super Kings, who were ranked fourth last year, has emerged the most valued franchise in 2010. The CSK franchise has moved up the ladder to number one with a valuation of USD 48.4 million. The Kolkata Knight Riders co-owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan comes in second with a valuation of USD 46 million and the Rajasthan Royals, co-owned by Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty comes in third with USD 45.2 million.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore, owned by Vijay Mallya, is ranked fourth with a valuation of USD 41.9 million and is followed by the Mumbai Indians (USD 40.8 million), Delhi Daredevils (USD 40.5 million) and Kings XI Punjab ( USD 36.1 million). The Deccan Chargers are at the base with a valuation of USD 34.4 million.

Pune and Kochi to play host to new IPL teams

Mumbai / Chennai: Sahara Adventure Sports, a Sahara Group company, and a consortium led by Solapur, Maharashtra-based Rendezvous Sports World Ltd will join the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year after bidding a combined $703.33 million (Rs3,200 crore) for the two franchises up for grabs in the Twenty20 cricket tournament.

Sahara Adventure Sports won the Pune franchise with a bid of $370 million. A consortium led by Rendezvous Sports walked away with the franchise for Kochi, at $333.33 million.

Both bidders won the franchises for the next 10 years, organizers said in Chennai.

In an indication of how much IPL has grown, the two new teams together fetched more than the total Rs2,840 crore that its existing eight franchises had been sold for in 2008. The minimum bid price had been fixed at $225 million per franchise this time, against $50 million in the first auction.

The cities that were up for grabs included Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Kanpur, Dharamsala, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Cuttack, Baroda, Indore and Gwalior. IPL had received five bids in all that qualified for the tender process.

Besides the winning Sahara offer, Pune attracted other bids—one from the Aman Group at $261.3 million and another from a consortium led by a Videocon Group company, VP Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which bid $319.9 million. The consortium included Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Karishma Kapoor, and Panchshil Realty.

Rendezvous Sports bid for Kochi along with Parinee Developers Pvt. Ltd, Anchor Earth, Film Waves and Anand Shah Developers.

Sahara Adventure Sports made an identical bid of $370 million for Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune. “They made the highest bid for all three cites and were asked to choose one of the cities. Accordingly, Pune will be their home ground,” said Lalit Modi, commissioner of IPL. “As far as IPL is concerned there is no recession at all. We will continue to be on upward trend,” he added. “I don’t foresee any (further) expansion (of the league) in many years to come, but then you never know.”

The new franchises will select their players in September and October. Modi said they, too, would be allowed only four non-Indian players on the field.

Sahara spokesman Abhijit Sarkar said: “Sahara is the biggest patron of sports in the country and we have been associated with the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) family for the last 15 years. So when we came to know about this proposition of cricket with business, we bid for IPL.”

The IPL commissioner had been reported to have said he was mulling over creating another IPL outside India. But on Sunday, he said there would be only one IPL, although some exhibition matches could be held outside the country.

Meanwhile, minister of state for foreign affairs Shashi Tharoor, who hails from Kerala, said he had no stake in the Kochi franchise. His role was confined to encouraging the consortium that eventually bagged the team.

The new team owners were to be announced on 7 March in Mumbai, but the process was deferred as IPL received only three bids that qualified.

Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals is the franchise that will represent the city of Jaipur in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led and coached by Shane Warne. There is no Icon Player for the team. This is the only IPL team to have a foreign captain and playing coach.

The Rajasthan Royals franchise is owned by Emerging Media group. The group acquired the franchise for $67 million.
Players

Rajasthan Royals was the least active franchise during the player auction. The team does not have a designated icon player, which saved a lot of cap space for the franchise. However the franchise was surprisingly low key during the auction, and in the end got penalized by the IPL organizing committee for failing to meet the minimum bidding criteria of $3.3 million. The highest bid by Rajasthan Royals was for the Indian middle order batsman Mohammad Kaif, who came off the board at $675,000. Shane Warne has been named the coach and captain of the side. The Royals are unique as they are the only side to have an English cricketer in their squad, Hampshire's all rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas.

Batsmen

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Graeme Smith - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman
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Mohammad Kaif - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Justin Langer - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
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Younis Khan - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman
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Anoop Revandkar - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Taruwar Kohli - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Niraj Patel - India - Left-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Kamran Akmal - Pakistan - Right-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Yusuf Pathan - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm leg-break
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Dimitri Mascarenhas - England - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Shane Watson - Australia - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Sohail Tanvir - Pakistan - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm medium-fast
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Ravindra Jadeja - India - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm orthodox spin
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Siddharth Trivedi - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium
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Swapnil Asnodkar - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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Sumit Khatri - India - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break

Bowlers

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Shane Warne (Captain) - Australia - Right-arm off-break
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Munaf Patel - 24- India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Morne Morkel - 30- South Africa - Right-arm fast
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Pankaj Singh - 21- India - Right-arm off-break

Administration and Coaching Staff

Front Office:

* Owner - Emerging Media (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram)
* CEO - Fraser Castellino

Coaches:

* Head Coach - Shane Warne
* Physiotherapist - John Gloster

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians will be representative of the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sachin Tendulkar, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by Lalchand Rajput, the former Manager of the Indian Cricket Team.

Reliance Industries Limited through its subsidiary Reliance Retail Ltd purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier league for a total of $111.9 million during the auction on January 24, 2008. The RIL bid has made the Mumbai Indians the most expensive franchise in IPL.

The team logo has the Sudarshan Chakra with the team’s name engraved in it. The team’s colour will be blue. The choice of the name “Indians” for a regional competition is widely regarded as a blunder.

The mascot is still unknown.
Players

Sachin Tendulkar is the designated icon player and also captain for Mumbai Indians. During the player auction Mumbai Indians successfully bid for 7 players, including two of the heroes of Indian Twenty-20 world cup side in Harbhajan Singh and Robin Uthappa. Sanath Jayasuriya was also another prized catch, along with South African legend Shaun Pollock. The team also added the Sri Lankan speedster Lasith Malinga.

Outside of the player auction, the franchise has also signed up Ajinkya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar (from Mumbai), Yogesh Takawale (from Maharashtra) and Pinal Shah (from Baroda)

Batsmen

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Sachin Tendulkar (Captain) - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Robin Uthappa - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Loots Botsman - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman
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Ashley Prince - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman
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Manish Pandey - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Saurabh Tiwari - India - Left-handed Batsman

Wicket Keepers

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Yogesh Takawale - India - Right-handed Batsman - Wicket keeper
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Pinal Shah - India - Right-handed Batsman - Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Sanath Jayasuriya - Sri Lanka - Slow left-arm orthodox spin
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Shaun Pollock - South Africa -Right-arm medium-fast
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Ajinkya Rahane - India - Right-arm medium

Bowlers

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Harbhajan Singh - India - Right-arm off-break
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Lasith Malinga - Sri Lanka - Right-arm fast
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Dilhara Fernando - Sri Lanka - Right-arm fast-medium
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Abhishek Nayar - India - Right-arm medium-fast
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Ashish Nehra - India - Left-arm fast-medium

Administration and Coaching staff

Front Office:

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Owner - Reliance Industries Limited
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CEO - R Balachandran
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President - Mukesh Ambani

Coaches:

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Head Coach - Lalchand Rajput

Kings XI Punjab

Kings XI Punjab is a sports franchise based in Mohali in the eight team Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Yuvraj Singh who is also the Icon Player and coached by Tom Moody, the former Aussie all rounder.

The owners of Kings XI Punjab include Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur). The group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise.

India middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh is the designated icon player for the Kings XI Punjab and he will also captain the team. In addition to Yuvraj, the team also contains the promising Indian allrounder Irfan Pathan, Aussie speedster Brett Lee and the Sri Lankan duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara in its ranks.
Players

India middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh is the designated icon player for the Kings XI Punjab and he will also captain the team. In addition to Yuvraj, the team also contains the promising Indian allrounder Irfan Pathan, Aussie speedster Brett Lee and the Sri Lankan duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara in its ranks.

Batsmen

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Yuvraj Singh (Captain) - India - Left-handed Batsman
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Mahela Jayawardene - Sri Lanka - Right-handed Batsman
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Ramnaresh Sarwan - West Indies - Right-handed Batsman
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Simon Katich - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
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Luke Pomersbach - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
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Karan Goel - India - Left-handed Batsman
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Tanmay Srivastava - India - Left-handed Batsman
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Sahil Kukreja - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Wilkin Mota - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Yash Gandhi - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Sunny Sohal - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka - Left-handed Wicket keeper
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Nitin Saini - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper
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Pankaj Dharmani - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper
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Uday Kaul - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Irfan Pathan - India - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm medium-fast
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Ramesh Powar - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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James Hopes - Australia - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium

Bowlers

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Brett Lee - Australia - Right-arm fast
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Shanthakumaran Sreesanth - India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Piyush Chawla - India - Right-arm leg-break
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Vikram Raj Vir Singh - India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Kyle Mills - New Zealand - Right-arm fast-medium
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Ajitesh Argal - India - Right-arm medium
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Mohammed Mudasir - India - Right-arm medium

Administration and Coaching Staff

Front Office:

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Owners - Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul & Mohit Burman
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CEO - Neil Maxwell
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President - TBA

Coaches:

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Head Coach - Tom Moody .

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders is the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sourav Ganguly, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by John Buchanan. The name of the team was revealed on March 10, 2008 with an official team unveiling ceremony on March 11, 2008. The official theme of the team is Korbo, Lorbo, Jitbo Re (We will do it, Fight for it, Win it) and the official colours are black and gold.

Kolkata Knight Riders is a franchise of the eight team Indian Premier League. It was bought on January 24, 2008 by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with Juhi Chawla and her husband, Jai Mehta.

The logo of the team consist of a blazing golden viking helmet against a black background with the name of the team Kolkata Knight Riders written in gold. The main theme of the team Korbo, Lorbo, Jitbo Re (We will do it, Fight for it, Win it) has been created by Vishal-Shekhar duo. A Knight Rider album with several singers and music composers including Usha Uthup and Bappi Lahiri will also be created. The tag line of the team is All the King's Men. The team's official colour is black and gold. Black stands for the courage of Maa Kali and gold stands for the spirit of winning. The jersey was created by Bollywood fashion designer Manish Malhotra. The team also has a mascot named Hoog Lee, who is a lazy Royal Bengal Tiger and loves to eat burgers. The name was chosen after lot of research. The name Knight Riders has been chosen keeping in view of the kids and the youth., and is a obvious reference to the famous television show. Incidentally the Kolkata team playing in the ICL (the rebel league) is named as "Kolkata Tigers".
Players

Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the Indian cricket team is the icon player and will lead the Kolkata franchise. Also in the team is allrounder Chris Gayle and wicket keeper batsman Brendon McCullum. The most successful captain in world cricket Ricky Ponting follows suit with a bowling attack including Shoaib Akhtar, Ishant Sharma, Umar Gul. Others include Ajit Agarkar, Murali Karthik and David Hussey.

Batsmen

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David Hussey - Australia - Right-handed Batsman
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Ricky Ponting - Australia - Right-handed Batsman
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Salman Butt - Pakistan - Left-handed Batsman
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Akash Chopra - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Cheteshwar Pujara - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Rohan Banerjee - India - Left-handed Batsman
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Yashpal Singh - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Debabrata Das - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Brendon McCullum - New Zealand - Right-handed Wicket keeper
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Tatenda Taibu - Zimbabwe - Right-handed Wicket keeper
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Wriddhiman Saha - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Sourav Ganguly (Captain) - India - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium
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Chris Gayle - West Indies - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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Ajit Agarkar - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Mohammad Hafeez - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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Iqbal Abdulla - India - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm orthodox spin
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Laxmi Ratan Shukla - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium

Bowlers

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Ishant Sharma - India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Shoaib Akhtar - Pakistan - Right-arm fast
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Murali Kartik - India - Left-arm orthodox spin
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Umar Gul - Pakistan - Right-arm fast-medium
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Siddarth Kaul - India - Right-arm medium
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Ranadeb Bose -India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Sourashish Lahiri - India - Left-arm orthodox spin

Administration and Coaching Staff

Front Office:

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Owners - Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla & Jai Mehta
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CEO - TBA
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President - TBA

Coaches:

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Head Coach - John Buchanan
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Assistant Head Coach - Matthew Mott
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Physiotherapist - Andrew Leipus
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Physical Trainer - Adrian Le Roux

Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers is the franchise that will represent the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by V.V.S. Laxman and coached by Robin Singh, presently the fielding coach of the Indian cricket team. There is no Icon Player for the team.

The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle. The media group acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million on January 24, 2008. Group M later picked a 20% stake.
Players

The Chargers were among the most aggressive bidders during the first Indian Premier League player auction. The franchise added a lot of explosive power in batting by acquiring some renowned big hitters like Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Shahid Afridi, Scott Styris and Herschelle Gibbs. In addition to all these players, the franchise also includes the Indian test player V.V.S. Laxman, who is a Hyderabad local. They are also employing the services of well-known pacers R.P. Singh, Nuwan Zoysa and Chaminda Vaas. It's been announced by the franchise that Laxman will captain the side during the tournament.

V.V.S. Laxman was supposed to be the Icon Player for the Deccan Chargers, but this meant that the players mentioned above could not be bought as Icon Player's earn 15% more than the next highest earner in the team. However, VVS Laxman relinquished his Icon Player Status, and instead of earning $1 million like other Icon players he earns $375,000, which allows the team to buy the big names and still remain under the salary cap.

Batsmen

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V. V. S. Laxman (Captain) - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Rohit Sharma - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Herschelle Gibbs - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman
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Venugopal Rao - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Chamara Silva - Sri Lanka - Right-handed Batsman
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Arjun Yadav - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Paidikalva Vijaykumar - India - Right-handed Batsman
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D Ravi Teja - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Adam Gilchrist - Australia - Left-handed Batsman/Right-handed Wicket keeper
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Halahar Das - India - Right-handed Batsman /Left-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Andrew Symonds - Australia - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm Medium/ Off-break
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Shahid Afridi - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm Medium/ Leg-break
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Scott Styris - New Zealand - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium
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Sanjay Bangar - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium

Bowlers

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Rudra Pratap Singh - India - Left-arm fast-medium
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Chaminda Vaas - Sri Lanka - Left-arm fast-medium
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Nuwan Zoysa - Sri Lanka - Left-arm fast-medium
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Pragyan Ojha - India - Left-arm orthodox spin
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D Kalyan Krishna 20 - India - Right-arm medium
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M Sarveesh Kumar - India - Right-arm medium

Administration and Coaching Staff

Front Office:

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Owner - Deccan Chronicle
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CEO - J Krishnan
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President - J Krishnan
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Manager - [[Vijay Mohan Raj]

Coaches:

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Head Coach - Robin Singh
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Assistant Head Coach - Kanwaljit Singh
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Team Manager - Shishir Hattangadi

Delhi DareDevils

Delhi DareDevils is the Delhi franchise for the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by the GMR Group. The team will be captained by Virender Sehwag, who is also the designated the Icon Player for the franchise.

During the franchise auction for the Indian Premier League teams GMR group acquired the rights for the Delhi franchise for $84 million.
Players

Virender Sehwag has been accorded the icon player status in the Delhi team.

Batsmen

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Virender Sehwag (Captain) - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Tillakaratne Dilshan - Sri Lanka - Right-handed Batsman
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Gautam Gambhir - India - Left-handed Batsman
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Manoj Tiwary - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Shikhar Dhawan - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Dinesh Karthik - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper
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AB de Villiers - South Africa - Right-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Daniel Vettori - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm orthodox spin
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Shoaib Malik - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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Farveez Maharoof - Sri Lanka - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Rajat Bhatia - India - Right-handed Batsman//Right-arm medium-fast
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Mithun Manhas - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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Mayank Tehlan - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break

Bowlers

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Mohammad Asif - Pakistan - Right-arm fast-medium
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Glenn McGrath - Australia - Right-arm medium-fast
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Brett Geeves - Australia - Right-arm fast-medium
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Pradeep Sangwan - India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Yo Mahesh - India - Right-arm fast-medium

Administration and Coaching Staff

Front Office:

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Owners - GMR Holdings
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CEO - Yogesh Shetty
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President - TBA
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Vice President - T. A. Sekhar

Coaches:

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Head Coach - Greg Shipperd

Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings is the Chennai franchise for the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest-paid IPL Player, and coached by Kepler Wessels. There is no Icon Player for the team.

Chennai Super Kings are a part of the eight club Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by India Cements, who paid $91 million to acquire the rights of the franchise for the next 10 years. Former India test player Kris Srikkanth is the brand ambassador for the franchise, and another former Indian opener V. B. Chandrasekhar will be the chief selector. The brand ambasssadors for the team will be South Indian actor, Vijay and actress, Nayantara.

The M.A.Chidambaram stadium (often referred to as Chepauk, the place where the stadium is located) will be the home ground of the IPL team. The theme song of Chennai Super Kings, penned by Vairamuthu, is presently being composed by G V Prakash Kumar.

The name “Super Kings” is to honor the rulers of the golden era of Tamil culture, the team logo has a Lion to reflect the King of the Jungle. In addition the word “Super” is colloquially used in the state of Tamil Nadu to reflect all things thrilling and exciting and is a word of the lips of almost every one in Tamil Nadu. Incidentally the Chennai team playing in the ICL (the rebel league) is named as “Chennai Superstars”.
Players

Chennai Super Kings are one of the three franchises with no icon player. The lack of an icon player benefited the Super Kings during the bidding as they managed to bid successfully on two (Dhoni & Muralitharan) of the six A listed players.

The team plans to have twenty three players on its roster. Besides the list of players already acquired, the team will pick the remaining members from the three catchment areas - Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Railways - that have been allocated to it.

Batsmen

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Matthew Hayden - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
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Stephen Fleming - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman
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Suresh Raina - India - Left-handed Batsman
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Michael Hussey - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
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Anirudha Srikkanth - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Subramaniam Badrinath - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Napoleon Einstein - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain) - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper
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Parthiv Patel - India - Left-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Jacob Oram - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium-fast
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Albie Morkel - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Shadab Jakati - India - Slow left-arm orthodox spin
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Abhinav Mukund - India - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm leg-break
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Viraj Kadbe - India - Right-arm leg-break

Bowlers

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Muttiah Muralitharan - Sri Lanka - Right-arm off-break
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Joginder Sharma - India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Makhaya Ntini - South Africa - Right-arm fast
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R. Ashwin - India - Right-arm off-break
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Sudeep Tyagi - India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Lakshmipathy Balaji - India - Right-arm fast-medium

Administration and Coaching Staff

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Owner - India Cement Ltd.
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CEO - TBA
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Ambassador - Kris Srikkanth, film stars Joseph Vijay and Nayantara
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Chief Selector - V. B. Chandrasekhar

Coaches:

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Head Coach - Kepler Wessels
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Assistant Coach - TBA
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Physiotherapist - Tommy Simsek
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Physical Trainer - Gregory King

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bangalore Royal Challengers is the team that is going to represent the city of Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, the inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament to be held in India. The team is owned by the liquor magnate Vijay Mallya, the chairman of UB Group. Charu Sharma is the CEO of the team and Rahul Dravid, the captain of the team is the Icon Player. Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has also been signed as a member of the management team. Venkatesh Prasad, the former Indian fast bowler and the present bowling coach of India has been declared the coach for the team.

Bangalore team was won by Vijay Mallya, who paid US$111.6million for it. This was the second highest bid for a team in the IPL, next only to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries’ bid of $111.9million for the Mumbai team.

Indian actresses Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif were signed as the brand ambassadors of the franchise.

Vijay Mallya wanted to associate one of his top-selling liquor brands, either ‘No. 1 McDowell’s’ or ‘Royal Challenge’ with the team. Ultimately, ‘Royal Challenge’ was chosen, and hence the team was given the name ‘Bangalore Royal Challengers’. The jersey colours of the team are red and golden yellow, and the logo consists of the RC emblem with ‘Bangalore Royal Challengers’ in standard format.
Players

The players in the team (except for Rahul Dravid, who was the Icon Player), were selected in an auction conducted by BCCI on 20 February 2008. South Africa’s Jacques Kallis at $900,000 became the costliest player to be selected to play for the Royal Challengers. This meant that Rahul Dravid, being the Icon Player would be paid $1,035,000 (15% more than the highest bid player in the team). Other players selected included the Indian Test cricket captain Anil Kumble along with his team-mates Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan, West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Aussies Nathan Bracken and Cameron White, South Africa’s Mark Boucher (Wicket Keeper) and Dale Steyn.

Batsmen

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Rahul Dravid (Captain/Icon Player) - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Shivnarine Chanderpaul - West Indies - Left-handed Batsman
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Wasim Jaffer - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Misbah-ul-Haq - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman
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Ross Taylor - New Zealand - Right-handed Batsman
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Arun Kumar J. - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Appanna K. P. - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Bharat Chipli - India - Right-handed Batsman

Wicket Keepers

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Mark Boucher - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman / Wicket keeper
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Shreevats Goswami - India - Left-hand Batsman / Wicket keeper
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Devraj Patil - India - Right-handed Batsman / Wicket keeper

Allrounders

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Jacques Kallis - South Africa - Right-arm fast-medium
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Cameron White - Australia - Right-handed Leg-break googly
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Sunil Joshi - India - Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox spin
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Akhil B. - India - Right-arm medium-fast
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Virat Kohli - India - Right-arm medium

Bowlers

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Anil Kumble - India -Right-armleg-break googly
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Zaheer Khan - India - Left-arm medium-fast
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Nathan Bracken - Australia - Left-arm fast-medium
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Dale Steyn - South Africa - Right-arm fast
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Praveen Kumar - India - Right-arm medium-fast
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Abdur Razzak - Bangladesh - Slow left-arm orthodox
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Vinay Kumar R. - India - Right-arm medium-fast

Administration and coaching staff

Front Office:

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Owner- Vijay Mallya
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CEO - Charu Sharma
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Adviser - Martin Crowe

Coaches:

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Head Coach - Venkatesh Prasad
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Assistant Head Coach - TBA
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Physiotherapist - TBA