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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and supervised by BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi, Chairman & Commissioner for IPL. It presently includes 10 teams "franchises" consisting of players from different countries. It was started after altercation between the BCCI and the newly-created Indian Cricket League.
It was the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the popular video sharing website Youtube. The Indian Premier League's brand value was estimated to be around $4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) in 2010.According to global sports salaries review IPL is the second highest-paid league (hypothetically though), based on first-team salaries on a pro-rata basis, only second to NBA league. It is calculated that average salary of IPL over a year is £2.5 million

Below are the list of teams sold out in IPL.
  • Mumbai Indians : Reliance Industries Limited = Rs. 441 Crore                
  • Bangalore Royal Challangers : United Breweries Limited. = Rs. 440 Crore
  • Deccan Chargers Hyderabad : Deccan Chronicle = Rs .422 Crore
  • Delhi Daredevils : G M R Group = Rs. 331 Crore
  • Rajasthan Royals : Emerging Media & Shilpa Shetty = Rs. 264 Crore
  • Chennai Super Kings : India Cements = Rs. 359 Crore
  • Kolkata Knight Riders : Shahrukh Khan & Juhi Chawla = Rs. 296 Crore
  • Kings XI Punjab : Ness Wadia & Preity Zinta = Rs. 300 Crore


  • Pune : Sahara Adventure Sports Group = Rs. 1702 Crore
  • Kochi : Rendezvous Sports World Limited = Rs. 1533 Crore


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1 comment:

  1. Buddy its Good of IPL but i dont want Deccan in the List

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