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.
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Steve Smith was captain of Rising Pune Supergiant when Unadkat had his breakthrough season in the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL).
Warner-led SRH had Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the final to win the title for the first time in IPL history.
Anderson said that bowling to big players like Dhoni gives important insight into how to bowl to others.
Sri Lanka Cricket chief Shammi Silva will be writing to BCCI soon to offer to host the IPL 2020 after the 13th season was suspended indefinitely.
Warne picked his best XI from the Indian Premier League. Warne has been part of the tournament since its inception in 2008, guiding Rajasthan Royals to their maiden IPL title in the inaugural season.
According to Styris, the battle between MI and CSK is also about the best finisher of the game against best death bowler and in that Dhoni owns Lasith Malinga.
Mumbai Indians have won IPL title four times – in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019. Out of these four times, they have defeated CSK in the final and once Rising Pune Supergiant (2017).
Pietersen's troubles with his teammates and management came to define Strauss's final months as captain of England and the early part of the captaincy of his successor Alastair Cook.
Kings XI Punjab also urged everyone to support Prime Minister's initiative to fight coronavirus pandemic in the country.
Bengal all-rounder will have to wait to don the Royal Challengers Bangalore red and gold as the possibility of having even a curtailed IPL is getting slimmer by the day with the rise of COVID-19 positive cases in India.
Jaffer on Sunday picked his all-time best to form a playing XI from the 12 past seasons of the Indian Premier League while also adding an extra 12th man to the lineup
The second season of the cash-rich league was completed only within 37 days with a total of 59 matches and the knockouts had just two semifinals.
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said that IPL can be started later due to coronavirus outbreak around the country.
The IPL begins with a clash between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at the Wankhede Stadium on March 29 while the final will take place on 24 May.
The said campaign which went on air on national television was a rip off from the famous Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign run by Airtel.
Yadav was roped in by Delhi Capitals at his base price of Rs 20 lakh at the December 19 auction held in Kolkata last year.
Sohail Tanvir was the best bowler of the inaugural IPL, leading Rajasthan Royals to a title triumph in 2008 under Shane Warne.
A player now gets approximately Rs 2.5 lakh per match in the Ranji Trophy, a far cry from the meagre salary the cricketers would withdraw not long ago, but still, the amount is no match to the millions the IPL stars earn.
The medium-pacer came into India reckoning after two seasons with IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings.
There have been reports of violence in West Bengal but Kolkata hasn't exactly been affected.
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