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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New Delhi, Mar 23: Adam Gilchrist, skipper of Kings XI Punjab, was on Friday entrusted with the added responsibility of coaching the side in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL), the fifth edition of the
London, Mar 20: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has been declared bankrupt in a London court over unpaid bills of 65,000 pounds (Rs 53 lakh approx) owed to a private security firm. According to a
Hyderabad, Mar 5: Deccan Chargers today signed five players including Bengal's middle-order batsman Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Hyderabad all-rounder Syed Ahmed Quadri and three uncapped players for the fifth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL).The three uncapped
New Delhi, Feb 16: The BCCI and the aggrieved Sahara Group today reached a compromise after a series of hectic negotiations over the past few days, paving the way for Pune Warriors' participation in the
New Delhi, Feb 13: The working committee of the BCCI is learnt to have unanimously rejected Sahara Group's primary demand of allowing their franchise Pune Warriors to field six foreign players for the next edition
Mumbai, Feb 11: The top brass of BCCI and the aggrieved Sahara Group will meet here tomorrow in a bid to break the stalemate which prompted the corporate giant to withdraw sponsorship of the Indin
Mumbai, Feb 4: Sahara Group today defended its decision to snap sponsorship ties with the Cricket Board and withdraw from the IPL, saying the relationship between the two has become so strained that it could
Dubai, Feb 2: England captain Andrew Strauss disagreed the lucrative Indian league was a distraction for his team which faces a 3-0 defeat against Pakistan in the third and final Test starting from Friday. Pakistan won
New Delhi, Jan 20: A replacement player last season, explosive West Indian batsman Chris Gayle has now been drafted into the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad for the coming two editions of the Indian Premier League.Gayle
Mumbai, Jan 17: Refusing to blame the cash-rich Indian Premier League for the national squad's debacle in Australia, former Test skipper Dilip Vengsarkar on Tuesday said lack of proper planning by the BCCI is the
New Delhi, Jan 16: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar refuted suggestions that the technique of the Indian batsmen has been affected due to slam-bang approach in the Indian Premier League (IPL).Almost all the Indian batsmen,
New Delhi, Dec 15: The Indian Premier League's player auction for the fifth edition will be held on February 4 next year, it was announced on Thursday.The teams will play their games on a home-and-away
Jaipur, Dec 3: Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid was today named captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals, filling up a post left vacant by retired Australian spin legend Shane Warne earlier this
New Delhi, Nov 10: Sports Minister Ajay Maken today said the allegations of tax violation in running of the Indian Premier League should be looked into and asked the BCCI to come under the RTI
New Delhi, Nov 9: Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan spent his entire Saturday answering questions from the Enforcement Directorate at the agency's zonal office in Nariman Point in Mumbai. He is understood to have been
New Delhi, Nov 2: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Wednesday claimed that he was threatened by the underworld and there have been three attempts to kill him for refusing to fix Indian Premier League
Hyderabad, Oct 14: The fifth edition of the Indian Premier League will be held from April 4 to May 27 next year with the inaugural match to be played in Chennai, it was announced on
Hyderabad, Oct 14: The IPL governing council is yet to work out a plan to help the players left in lurch after Kochi's axing but the league's boss Rajiv Shukla assured that the interest of
New Delhi, Oct 9: A decision on the Pakistani cricketers'participation in the next Indian Premier League would be taken at the event's Governing Council meeting on October 14, says IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla.Pakistani cricketers have
New Delhi, Sep 22: Interest of the players contracted with terminated IPL franchise Kochi Tuskers Kerala will be protected, assured the league's new boss Rajiv Shukla who today promised to make the cash-rich event more
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