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What is Indian Premier League (IPL)?
The Indian Premier League is created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council is a Twenty20 competition which will have 8 clubs who will play in the IPL’s first season which will be starting in April 2008 with a tournament among the clubs which will last for 44 days and all the matches would be played on home and away basis. A total of 59 matches will be played with 177 hours of entertainment with a Super Saturday in which both the semi-finals and the final will be played on the very same day. The total prize money for Indian Premier League will be $3 million.
IPL will work in a similar pattern to Britain’s English Premiership League where clubs will be the franchisees of BCCI and players of the said clubs will be sold and purchased like any professional club. BCCI has penned down a draft and format of the IPL. Which can be seen below…
Clubs (Franchisee) should have their home ground.
Each club can have a maximum pool of 16 players.
Clubs must have four Under-21 youth players in their Pool of 16.
Four players must belong to the territory where club was located or instituted.
Each foreign player will be named ‘designated player’ and will be purchased through open bidding among the clubs for their next season.
All the matches will be played under floodlights.
An Inter and Intra division should be played among the said clubs.
Intra division matches will be played on weekends while inter division matches will be played on weekdays. The clubs will be formed by the BCCI and the franchisees have to pay the Board to form a club. There will be two divisions for the franchisees namely South and North. All the franchisees will be given territorial exclusivity so that nobody can interfere in their own area regarding player’s registration etc. The last but not the least as all the matches will be played under the rules and regulations of ICC.
The league will be run by separate Governing body which will independently manage the affairs of the IPL, which includes the names like IS Bindra, Chirayu Ameen, Arun Jaitly, Rajeev Shukla, MAK Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar Ravi Shastri and Lalit Modi as their members. The integration of accounts of IPL will be done on annual basis. There will be separate office for the IPL at the MCA’s newly constructed Cricket House.
Its final leg will be called ‘Champions Twenty20 League’ which again is on the format of UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE all the finalists from across the World will play in this Champions League. The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get $5 million, highest ever for a cricket event.
Here are some International players who already have the contract with IPL
Australia
Michael Clarke
Brett Lee
Andrew Symonds
Jason Gillespie
Mitchell Johnson
Ricky Ponting
Nathan Bracken
Michael Hussey
Matthew Hayden
Simon Katich
Brad Haddin
Adam Gilchrist
Justin Langer
Glenn McGrath
Shane Warne
India
Rahul Dravid
Sourav Ganguly
Anil Kumble
Sachin Tendulkar
Pakistan
Mohammad Yousuf
Shoaib Malik
Shoaib Akhtar
Muhammad Asif
Shahid Afridi
Younis Khan
South Africa
Graeme Smith
Ashwell Prince
AB de Villiers
Herschelle Gibbs
Albie Morkel
Shaun Pollock
Loots Bosman
Jacques Kallis
Mark Boucher
Makhaya Ntini
Sri Lanka
Dilhara Fernando
Sanath Jayasuriya
Mahela Jayawardene
Farveez Maharoof
Lasith Malinga
Muttiah Muralitharan
Kumar Sangakkara
Chaminda Vaas
Nuwan Zoysa
New Zealand
Stephen Fleming
Scott Styris
Daniel Vettori
Jacob Oram
Brendon McCullum
West Indies
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Chris Gayle
This post was written by me at http://star-cricket.blogspot.com/2008/01/all-you-want-to-kno…
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