Million Dollar League

Are you a great fan of cricket? And one question also: are you an Indian? If yes you ashamed on the Indian cricket.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is newly born child of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It is started on September 14, 2007 based on English Premier League (EPL) and the National Basketball League (NBA) (not Stanford League). The idea was floated in 1996. But the board felt it would not good for India. The project moved into top media monopoly in India, Zee group launched a rival cricket league, Indian Cricket League (ICL).

Then board opens the eyes to the market system. The league will open on April 18 and will play 59 matches on 44 days. The overall prize money will be US $ 5 million, winners taking home $2 million. The International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup 2007 winners took home $1 million. Television rights have gone for over $1 billion. Franchises have committed close to $723 million. Top players are expected to earn minimum 1-2.5 crore Indian Rupees (INR) per season.

Sony Entertainment and the Asia based World Sports Group (WSG) won the broadcast rights for ten years. The television rights are worth $918 million.

Eight teams are ready for play the game. The most famous persons in the team are:

IPL Bangalore
Anill Kumble
Rahul Dravid
Zaheer Khan
Wasim Jaffer
Mark Boucher
Nathan Bracken
Sivnarine Chanderpaul
Jacques kallis
Dele Steyn
Cameron White

IPL Chennai
Mahenra Singh Doni
Suresh Raina
Joginder Sharma
Parthiv Patel
Stephen Fleming
Mathew Hayden
Michael Hussey
Albie Morkel
Muttiah Muralitharan
Makhaya Ntini
Jacob Oram

IPL Delhi
Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Dinesh Karthik
Manoj Tiwary
AB de Villiers
Tilakaratne Dilshan
Glenn McGrath
Farveez Maharoof
Mohammad Asif
Shoaib Malik
Daniel Vettori
Greg Shipperd (Coach)

IPL Hyderabad
VVS Laxman
Rohit Sharma
Rudra Pratap Singh
Herschelle Gibbs
Adam Gilchrist
Shahid Afridi
Chamara Silva
Scott Styris
Andrew Symonds
Chaminda Vaas
Nuwan Zoysa

IPL Jaipur
Mohammad Kaif
Munaf Patel
Yusuf Pathan
Kamran Akmal
Justin Langer
Graeme Smith
Shane Warne
Younis Khan

IPL Kolkata
Sourav Ganguly
Ajit Agarkar
Ishant Sharma
Murali Kartik
Chris Gayle
David Hussey
Brendon McCullum
Ricky Ponting
Shoaib Akhtar
Umar Gul
John Buchan (Coach)

IPL Mohali
Yuvraj Singh
Irfan Pathan
Sreesanth
Piyush Chawla
Ramesh Powar
Mahela Jayawardene
Simon Katich
Brett Lee
Kumar Sangakkara
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Tom Moody (Coach)

IPL Mumbai
Sachin Tendulkar
Harbhajan Singh
Robin Uthappa
Sanath Jayasuriya
Shaun Pollock
Loots Bosman
Dilhara Fernando
Lasith Malinga