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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Chennai, Jan 31: They are not exactly Twenty20 stars but retired Australian skipper Ricky Ponting and his successor Michael Clarke have attracted the highest base price of $400,000 (approx Rs 2.1 crore) among the 101
Jaipur, Jan 25: Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Rajasthan Royals Friday announced the appointment of South African Paddy Upton as the team's head coach.The 44-year-old mental conditioning coach of the South African cricket team will
Mumbai, Jan 21 : Former India captain Anil Kumble was today appointed chief mentor of the Mumbai Indians IPL team ahead of the start of the sixth season.The 42-year-old Kumble not only holds the record
Hyderabad, Dec 20: The Sun Group, a new entrant into the high-profile Indian Premier League, unveiled its team name Sunrisers and the logo of the franchise here today. The logo is of an eagle soaring
Mumbai, Nov 21: Soft drink giants Pepsi pipped leading telecom communications provider Bharti Airtel to become the new title sponsors of the Indian Premier League with a whopping winning bid of Rs 396.8 crores for
Guwahati, Nov 7 : The Gauhati High Court Wednesday directed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to frame guidelines and norms for selection of cities for IPL franchises and to put it
New Delhi, Oct 29: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday initiated the process of finding a new title sponsor for the Indian Premier League by floating tender notices for the
Kolkata, Oct 29: Four years after he announced his retirement from International cricket, former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly has called it quits from all levels of the game, deciding not to play in the IPL
New Delhi, Oct 26: Lalit Modi, the former chairman of the Indian Premier League, on Thursday alleged that N Srinivasan, the current president of the BCCI, is trying to "gift" the Hyderabad franchise to his
Mumbai, Oct 25: All the players who were contracted with the Deccan Chargers, whose IPL contract has been terminated by the cricket board, will be available for picking by Sun TV Network which on Thursday
Cape Town, Oct 21: Already shown the exit door, IPL champion Kolkata Knight Riders would look for a face-saving win when it takes on table-topper Titans in its final Group ‘A' match of the Champions
Mumbai, Oct 18: The cash-strapped Deccan Chargers will remain terminated from the IPL after the Bombay high court on Thursday set aside a status quo order passed by an arbitrator on cessation of its membership
Mumbai, Oct 15: The Governing Council of the Indian Premier League, a sub committee of the Cricket Board, is to meet here on October 17 following BCCI's month-long legal battle against Deccan Chargers over the
Mumbai, Oct 13: The Bombay High Court today granted stay on the arbitrator's order giving Deccan Chargers time till October 17 in the face of BCCI's termination order. BCCI had challenged the arbitrator's order, and
Johannesburg, Oct 9: Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Kulasakera replaced Dwayne Bravo in the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) squad for the Champions League Twenty20 which starts here Tuesday.Bravo, who was in the West Indies team Sunday
Sydney, Oct 9: Former ICC elite panel umpire Darrell Hair is not at all surprised by the allegations of fixing against match officials, and said such rumours started doing rounds since the birth of the
New Delhi, Sep 27: An Indian court has appointed an arbitrator to mediate a dispute between Deccan Chargers and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after the Indian Premier League team challenged
New Delhi, Sep 15: The BCCI today sought to justify the decision to terminate the IPL contract of debt-ridden Deccan Chargers, saying it was compelled to take action after the beleaguered franchise claimed that it
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