The Indian Premier League (IPL), officially called the Vivo Indian Premier League, is a glitzy and glamorous professional Twenty20 Cricket league in India which started in 2008. There are eight teams representing eight different Indian cities, namely Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and was a brainchild of Lalit Modi. The league, in its 10 years of existence, developed into the world's biggest and the richest T20 league. IPL also has an exclusive window in International Cricket Council's Future Tours Programme. The format of the league is divided into two halves - Round Robin and Qualifiers. Each of the eight teams will play each other twice in a home and away round robin format in the league phase. After the end of the league phase, the top two teams from the league phase will play against each other in 1st Qualifier for a place in the final. However, the team which loses in the 1st Qualifier will get another chance for the IPL by playing the second qualifying match (Winner of the Eliminator match between third and fourth place teams). The winner of the second qualifier will play the final match against the winner of the first qualifier.
Read MoreIPL 2020 is slated to begin on September 19 in the UAE, with the final on November 10, after having received the green signal from the Indian government on Monday.
BCCI and IPL Governing Council have shown utter disrespect to the Indian soldiers killed by Chinese troops with its decision to hold the cricket league with its Chinese sponsors, SJM's co-convener Ashwani Mahajan said in a statement.
There is a high possibility that all the centrally contracted cricketers, save Cheteshwar Pujara and Hanuma Vihari (who don't feature in IPL), will be joining their respective IPL teams training camp in Dubai from the start.
With ICC postponing the T20 World Cup, it created a window of opportunity for the BCCI to stage a full-fledged IPL later this year
Hazlewood, who plays for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, is one of the one few Australian players who turn out in all three formats of the game and is part of the enlarged 26-man squad that was named last week.
Indian cricketers, who have not played since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, could well resume their training in Dubai
In 2013, the BCCI disciplinary committee had found three Rajasthan Royals players -- former India pacer S Sreesanth, Chavan and Ajit Chandila -- guilty of spot-fixing in the IPL and handed them life bans.
Aakash chose Sunrisers captain David Warner as his first pick as the opener over West Indies destructive batsman Chris Gayle, who has scored most centuries in IPL history- 6.
Shakib Al Hasan chose KKR's most successful captain Gautam Gambhir to lead his side and play at no. 3.
Gambhir revealed what KKR co-owner Shah Rukh told him after replacing him with Ganguly as the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders.
Anti-China sentiments are running high in the country with citizens calling for a boycott of Chinese products following the clash between the two nations at the Galwan valley earlier this week that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead.
Suspended Chennai Super Kings team doctor Madhu Thottappillil took to Twitter on Thursday and offered an apology.
Recently in a Live Instagram session with Yuzvendra Chahal, the Afghanistan spinner said that it was his dream to play in IPL and recalled his first game of the tournament against RCB.
Sammy, on Thursday, cleared the air and said that he had a conversation with one of the players and he has assured him that the comments were operated from a place of the heart.
Symonds ended up being the most expensive overseas player in the first-ever auction when he was signed by the Deccan Chargers for a price tag of Rs 10.2 crore.
Robin Uthappa feels that what stands out about Gambhir's leadership was how he let people express themselves and also how he made everyone feel like a part of a family.
Pandya admitted to enduring a phase in his career when he went "off the board" and tried too hard to fit in based on other people's opinion of him.
Harbhajan recalled his memory of an IPL match when Indian paceman Shardul Thakur was getting hammered by the opposition batsman but Dhoni remained calm.
Tiwary, who was also a part of that team, said that KKR were ignoring the efforts made by him and Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan by not putting their handles among the mentions in the tweet.
Adam Gilchrist led Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at a time Miller was drafted in the side in 2011.
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