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in Kochi, hectic work is in progress for the General Stadium at Kaloor to be
ready for the IPL matches. The floodlights contract has been given to Philips.
It was Philips who did the floodlights at Bangalore and Chennai. There
will be 4 towers of 100 bulbs each. On the pitch the light requirement
is 3000 lux and on the boundary 2500 lux.
Geoff Lawson, the Kochi coach, spent 1.5 hours at the Kochi stadium yesterday. Meanwhile
there are media reports that Kochi may rope in Ganguly. VVS is the onlyTest batsman
in Kochi side.
We suggest the following names for the Kochi side
Kochi Tigers
Kochi Killers
Kochi Knights
Kochi Knaves
Cochin Cobras
Kochi Tuskers
Kochi Kings
Kochi Gladiators
Kerala Tigers
Kerala Catamarans
Kerala Knights
Kerala Knaves
Kerala Cobras
Kerala Tuskers
Kerala Dolphins
Kerala Kingfishers
Kerala Catamarans
Cochin Cheetahs
Cochin Cats
Cochin Leopards
Kerala Lions
Kerala Jaguars
Kochi Jaguars
Last year
BCCI makes 350 crores profit ! Sony TV makes 650 crores in the first season. If English Premier League had 150 million viewers, IPL had 200 million viewers !
200 million viewers ! The Kolkota IPL Team made profit in the first season itself. Delhi, Rajastan & Chennai are breaking even. 10 million foreigners watched IPL on satellite TV. 4 million Indians watched the match directly in the 8 cities. In 2007, BCCI's net profit was only 235 crores. BCCI made 350 crores in just 44 days ! Yearly income will be 1200 crores per year for
BCCI, as per estimates.Sony TV made a profit of 650 crores, which is more than the yearly profit of India's major 9 channels. That too in just 44 days ! Ads were priced at 2 lakh per ten second spot. It went upto 5 lakhs during semi finals and 10 lakh on finals.
Here we give a list of the 8 sites of the teams in the Indian Premier League. and their logos. May they become the Manchester Uniteds and the Chelseas of Cricket !
Each team will have a pool of 16 players. It is mandatory that each team should have a minimum of four under-22 playersand a maximum of eight foreign players. Four players must be from that City, where the team is based.
Indian Premier Matches Schedule : IPL is scheduled to start in April 8 and will last for 40 days, involving 74 matches.
The Frachisees
| Franchise | Owner | Price in USD |
| Mumbai Indians | Reliance | 111.9 million |
| Bangalore Royal Challengers | UB Group | 111.6 m |
| Hyderabad Deccan Chargers | Deccan Chronicle | 107 m |
| Chennai Super Kings | India Cements | 91 m |
| Delhi Dare Devils | GMR Holdings | 84 m |
| Kings XI Punjab | Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia | 76 m |
| Kolkotta Knight Riders | Shah Rukh Khan | 76.09 m |
| Rajasthan Royals | Emerging Media | 67 m |
| Pune Warriors | Sahara | 370 m |
| Kochi | Parinathi | 333 m |
Official Website is www.iplt20.com. A
Canadian Company, Live Current Media Inc, was given the contract for USD 50
million.
Deccan
Chargers
Royal
Challengers
Rajasthan
Royals
Punjab Kings XI
Mumbai Indians
Chennai Super Kings
Kolkotta KnightRiders
Delhi Dare Devils


MS Dhoni Retained
Suresh Raina
Murali Vijay
Albie Morkel
Wriddhiman Saha $ 100,000
Mike Hussey
$ 425,000
Dwayne Bravo $ 200,000
Michael Hussey $ 425,000.
Doug Bollinger $ 700,000
R Ashwin $ 850,000
S Badrinath $ 800,000
Scott Styris $ 200,000
Ben Hilfenhaus $ 100,000
Joginder Sharma $ 150,000
Nuwan Kulasekara $ 100,000
Sudeep Tyagi $ 240,000
Suraj Randiv $ 80,000
George Bailey $ 50,000
Francois du Plessis $ 120,000
Travis Birt $ 20,000
Colin Ingram $ 100,000
Michael Lumb $ 80,000
Robert Frylinck $ 20,000
The Punjab Super Kings

Adam
Gilchrist $ 900,000
David Hussey $ 1.4 mn
Dinesh Karthik $ 900,000
Stuart Broad $ 400,000
Abhishek Nayar $ 800,000
Shaun Marsh $ 425,000
Praveen Kumar $ 800,000
Ryan Harris $ 325,000
Piyush Chawla $ 900,000
Dimitri Mascarenhas $ 100,000
Nathan Rimmington $ 20,000
IPL Bangalore

Virat Kohli Retained
Tillakaratne Dilshan $ 650, 000
AB de Villiers $ 1.1 mn
Zaheer Khan $
900,000
Daniel Vettori $ 550,000
Saurabh Tiwary $ 1.6 mn
Dirk Nannes $ 650,000
Cheteshwar Pujara $ 700,000
Charl Langeveldt $ 140,000
Luke Pomersbach $ 50,000
Abhimanyu Mithun $ 260,000
Johan van der Wath $ 50,000
Rilee Rossouw $ 20,000
Nuwan Pradeep $ 20,000
Jonathan Vandiar $ 20,000
Mohammad Kaif $ 130,000
IPL Hyderabad

Kevin Pietersen $ 650,000
Cameron White $ 1.1 mn
Kumar Sangakkara 700,000
JP Duminy $ 300,000
Shikhar Dhawan $ 300,000
Ishant sharma $ 450,000
Pragyan Ojha $ 500,000
Amit Mishra $ 300,000
Dale Steyn $ 1.2 mn
Daniel Christian $ 900,000
Manpreet Gony $ 290,000
Chris Lynn $ 20,000
Juan Theron $ 85,000
IPL Mumbai

Sachin Tendulkar Retained
Kieron Pollard
Lasith Malinga
Harbhajan Singh
Rohit Sharma $ 2 mn
Andrew Symonds $ 850,000
Davey Jacobs $ 190,000
James Franklin $ 100,000
Munaf Patel $ 700,000
Clint McKay $ 110,000
Moises Henriques $ 50,000
Aiden Blizzard $ 20,000
IPL Kolkata
Gautam Gambhir $ 2.4
mn
Yusuf Pathan $ 2.1 mn
Jacques Kallis $ 1.1 mn
Brad Haddin $ 325,000
Shakib-al-Hasan $ 425,000
Brett Lee $ 400,000
Manoj Tiwary $ 475,000
Eoin Morgan $ 350,000
L Balaji $ 500,000
Jaidev Unadkat $ 250,000
Ryan ten Doeschate $ 150,000
James Pattinson $ 100,000
IPL Rajasthan

Shane Warne Retained
Shane Watson
Ross Taylor $ 1 mn
Rahul Dravid $ 500,000
Johan Botha $ 950,000
Paul Collingwood $ 250,000
Shaun Tait $ 300,000
Pankaj Singh $ 95,000
Pune

Yuvraj Singh $ 1.8 mn
Robin Uthappa $ 2.1 mn
Tim Paine $ 270,000
Angelo Mathews $ 950,000
Ashish Nehra $ 850,000
Callum Ferguson $ 300,000
Nathan McCullum $ 100,000
Graeme Smith $ 500,000
Wayne Parnell $ 160,000
Mitchell Marsh $ 290,000
Jerome Taylor $ 100,000
Alfonso Thomas $ 100,000
Jesse Ryder $ 150,000
Murali Kartik $ 400,000
Kochi

Delhi
Here we give the Winning Bidder, telecast right and the deal for many
countires.
| Winning Bidder | Telecast Rights Regional | Deal |
| Sony | Global Rights, India | 1.026 Billion USD, 10 years |
| Network Ten | Free to Air TV, Australia | AUD 15 million, 5 years |
| Setanta Sports | UK & Ireland | 5 years, undisclosed |
| Arab Digital | Arab countries | 10 years, undisclosed |
| Willow TV | In North America | 5 years, undisclosed |
| SuperSport | South Africa | Undisclosed |
| Geo Super | Pakistan | Undisclosed |
| Asian Television | Canadian | 5 years, undisclosed |
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