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Indian Premier League fan club

You must have heard of Football leagues, but now it is the beginning of Cricket leagues!!!

Perhaps the 1st one to start is the Indian Premier League, an international league created by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The league is scheduled to start in April 2008 and will last for 44 days, involving 59 matches. The prize money for the league will be around Rs 13 crore (US $3million).

Each team will have a pool of 16 players, of whom four will be international and four from the Under-19 level or from the catchment area where the team is based.
There are going to be 8 teams .,.,., and 16 players in a squad

List of Teams (with players):


Bangalore Royal Challengers

Coach: Venkatesh Prasad
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Rahul Dravid

Jacques Kallis

Anil Kumble

Cameron White

Zaheer Khan

Mark Boucher

Nathan Bracken

Dale Steyn

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Wasim Jaffer
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Chennai Super Kings
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Jacob Oram

Suresh Raina

Albie Morkel

Muttiah Muralitharan

Matthew Hayden

Michael Hussey

Stephen Fleming

Parthiv Patel

Joginder Sharma

Makhaya Ntini
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Delhi Daredevils

Coach: Greg Shipperd
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Virender Sehwag

Gautam Gambhir

Manoj Tiwary

Mohammad Asif

Daniel Vettori

Dinesh Karthik

Shoaib Malik

Glenn McGrath

AB de Villiers

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Farveez Maharoof

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Hyderabad

Coach: Robin Singh
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Andrew Symonds

R. P. Singh

Rohit Sharma

Adam Gilchrist

Shahid Afridi

Herschelle Gibbs

V. V. S. Laxman

Chaminda Vaas

Scott Styris

Nuwan Zoysa

Chamara Silva


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Rajasthan Royals

Coach: Greg Chappell
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Mohammad Kaif

Yusuf Pathan

Graeme Smith

Shane Warne

Munaf Patel

Younis Khan

Justin Langer

Kamran Akmal

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Kolkata

Coach: John Buchanan
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Sourav Ganguly

Ishant Sharma

Chris Gayle

Brendon McCullum

David Hussey

Shoaib Akhtar

Murali Kartik

Ricky Ponting

Ajit Agarkar

Umar Gul

Tatenda Taibu

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Mohali

Coach: Tom Moody
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Yuvraj Singh

Irfan Pathan

Brett Lee

Kumar Sangakkara

Sreesanth

Mahela Jayawardene

Piyush Chawla

Ramnaresh Sarwan

Simon Katich

Ramesh Powar

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Mumbai
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Sachin Tendulkar

Sanath Jayasuriya

Harbhajan Singh

Robin Uthappa

Shaun Pollock

Lasith Malinga

Loots Bosman

Dilhara Fernando



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The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were (all amounts in US$):

- Mumbai

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited

Price paid: USD 111.9 million
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- Bangalore

Vijay Mallya/UB group

Price paid: USD 111.6 million
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- Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle

Price Paid: USD 107 million
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- Chennai

India Cements

Price Paid: USD 91 million
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- Delhi

GMR group

Price Paid: USD 84 million
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- Mohali

Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia(Bombay Dyeing), Karan
Paul ](Apeejay Surendera Group) and Dabur's Mohit Burman

Price Paid: USD 76 million
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- Kolkata

Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment in partenship with Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta

Price Paid: USD 75.09 million
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- Jaipur

Emerging Media (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram and investors)

Price Paid: USD 67 million
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SCHEDULE for IPL has been put on the Official website, it goes like this...:

Friday, April 18th 2008
Bangalore v Kolkata

Saturday, April 19th 2008
Delhi v Jaipur

Mohali v Chennai

Sunday, April 20th 2008
Kolkata v Hyderabad

Mumbai v Bangalore

Monday, April 21st 2008
Jaipur v Mohali

Tuesday, April 22nd 2008
Hyderabad v Delhi

Wednesday, April 23rd 2008
Chennai v Mumbai

Thursday, April 24th 2008
Hyderabad v Jaipur

Friday, April 25th 2008
Mohali v Mumbai

Saturday, April 26th 2008
Bangalore v Jaipur

Chennai v Kolkata

Sunday, April 27th 2008
Mohali v Delhi

Mumbai v Hyderabad
TBA
Monday, April 28th 2008
Bangalore v Chennai

Tuesday, April 29th 2008
Kolkata v Mumbai

Wednesday, April 30th 2008
Delhi v Bangalore

Thursday, May 1st 2008
Hyderabad v Mohali

Jaipur v Kolkata


Friday, May 2nd 2008
Chennai v Delhi


Saturday, May 3rd 2008
Hyderabad v Bangalore

Mohali v Kolkata

TBA
Sunday, May 4th 2008
Jaipur v Chennai

Mumbai v Delhi


Monday, May 5th 2008
Bangalore v Mohali

Tuesday, May 6th 2008
Chennai v Hyderabad


Wednesday, May 7th 2008
Mumbai v Jaipur


Thursday, May 8th 2008
Delhi v Chennai


Kolkata v Bangalore


Friday, May 9th 2008
Jaipur v Hyderabad


Saturday, May 10th 2008
Bangalore v Mumbai

Chennai v Mohali

TBA
Sunday, May 11th 2008
Hyderabad v Kolkata

Jaipur v Delhi

TBA
Monday, May 12th 2008
Mohali v Bangalore


Tuesday, May 13th 2008
Kolkata v Delhi


Wednesday, May 14th 2008
Mohali v Jaipur


Mumbai v Chennai


Thursday, May 15th 2008
Delhi v Hyderabad


Friday, May 16th 2008
Mumbai v Kolkata


Saturday, May 17th 2008
Delhi v Mohali

Jaipur v Bangalore


Sunday, May 18th 2008
Hyderabad v Mumbai


Kolkata v Chennai


Monday, May 19th 2008
Bangalore v Delhi


Tuesday, May 20th 2008
Kolkata v Jaipur


Wednesday, May 21st 2008
Chennai v Bangalore

Mumbai v Mohali


Thursday, May 22nd 2008
Delhi v Kolkata


Friday, May 23rd 2008
Mohali v Hyderabad


Saturday, May 24th 2008
Chennai v Jaipur


Delhi v Mumbai


Sunday, May 25th 2008
Bangalore v Hyderabad

Kolkata v Mohali


Monday, May 26th 2008
Jaipur v Mumbai


Tuesday, May 27th 2008
Hyderabad v Chennai


Friday, May 30th 2008
Semi Final 1

Mumbai
Saturday, May 31st 2008
Semi Final 2

Mumbai
Sunday, June 1st 2008
Final
Mumbai