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So Kerala got a team at last. Kochi IPL team was bought for $ 333 million dollars. Despite the controversies, the Kerala Team survived. This definitely is a great boost for Kerala Cricket. Kerala had contributed youngsters like Sreeshant and T Yohannan. There is cricketing talent in Kerala, but without the right encouragement, talent cannot blossom. This Kochi IPL team is a like a manna sent from Heaven ! Balan Pandit was a good bastman of yore and A Padmanabhan was a fine spinner who never made it to the Test side. Now Kerala will be getting good encouragement and we hope Keralites will contribute more to cricket !
 

Now, 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


Kochi

Teams in the I P L  



IPL Chennai Super Kings 




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 

Mahela Jayawardene $ 1.5 mn
VVS Laxman $ 400,000
Brendon McCullum $ 475,000
S Sreesanth $ 900,000
Parthiv Patel $ 290,000
Ravindra Jadeja $ 950,000
Steven Smith $ 200,000
Muttiah Muralitharan $ 1.1 mn
Ramesh Powar $ 180,000
Brad Hodge $ 425,000
RP Singh $ 500,000
Thissara Perera $ 80,000
R Vinay Kumar $ 475,000
Stephen O'Keefe $ 20,000
Owais Shah $ 200,000
Michael Klinger $ 75,000
John Hastings $ 20,000
 

Delhi

 

 

  • Virender Sehwag
  • Irfan Pathan
  • Travis Birt
  • David Warner
  • Ashok Dinda
  • Aaron Finch
  • Robert Frylinck
  • James Hopes
  • Colin Ingram
  • Andrew McDonald
  • Venugopal Rao
  • Morne Morkel
  • Naman Ojha
  • Van der Merwe
  • Umesh Yadav
  • Mathew Wade
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    Television rights:                  

     


    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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