IPL - Indian Premier League :

IPL or Indian Premier League is a Twenty20 Cricket competition. It is organized by Board of control for cricket in India (BCCI). The chairman for the event is Mr Lalit Modi, vice president of BCCI.

In June 2007, Lalit Modi met Andrew Wildblood from International Managment Group, a company that expertise in sports managment. Modi wanted to re-energise Indian domestic game and suggested the idea of Twenty20 cricket league in India.

In thier second meeting which took place in london, they decided to make thier vision a reality by 2008. To start something this huge from scratch and get it ready in a time span of less then 9 months was really really a very big challenge.But, the way whole thing turned up was quiet amazing.

It was decided that eight domestic teams will be playing with one another,followed by semi-final and final and thus the commercial model and investor context can be implemented. Wildblood said “Lalit and I always believed in it anyway and have always kept encouraging each other to go for it, but there is no doubt this was a stroke of luck. Twenty20’s profile suddenly went sky high.”

Bidding stared in december. among the bidders were few high profile people. From top industrialist to Film stars, they all added to the glamour of the game. The players auction was a huge event with money flowing like never before.The auction fetched a total amount of US $723.59 million.

Franchise Owner Price(US$)

Chennai Super Kings India Cements (N Srinivasan) $ 91.90 m

Deccan Chargers Deccan Chronicle $ 107.0 m

Delhi Daredevils GMR Holdings (Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao) $ 84.0 m

Kings xi Punjab Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing),Priety Zinta, $ 76.0 m
Mohit Burma(Dabur)and Karan Paul

Kolkata Knight Riders Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan, $ 75.1 m
Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and J Mehta)

Mumbai Indians Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries) $ 111.9 m


Royal Challengers Bangalore Vijay Mallya (UB Group) $ 111.6 m


Rajasthan Royals Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch,A.R Jha and $ 67.0 m
Suresh Chellaram),Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra

IPL Season One :

IPL season one was started on 18th April 2008 and ended on 1st June 2008. The final match was played between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings at Patil Stadium , Navi Mumbai. Rajasthan Royals won the match and the trophy of DLF IPL season one. The overwhelming success of IPL-1 has changed the scenario of cricket in India forever.

IPL Season Two:

IPL season two also known as IPL-2 has been moved from India to South -Africa due to general elections 2009. All 59 matche s of IPL-2 will be played in South Africa. It will start on April 18th 2009.