INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE (IPL), 2010
Nowadays, Indian Premier League or IPL is a household name, and it has been a revolution to the cricketing world. Today, cricket lovers did not want to wait for results of the cricket match for one day or five days. Thus Twenty20 cricket which gives the result in just three hours becomes favorite of all cricket lovers in the world. To boost this twenty20 cricket, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) conduct a twenty20 cricket competition named Indian Premier League (IPL). The players of IPL are coming from all over the world and eight teams are participating in this league. The eight team names are Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super kings, Punjab Xl kings, Royal challengers, Rajasthan royals, and Delhi daredevils. The first two seasons IPL 2008 and IPL 2009 were huge hits not only in India, but also in the whole world. Rajasthan Royals was the winner of IPL 2008 and the trophy of IPL 2009 was lifted by Deccan Chargers. The third season of the IPL, ‘IPL 2010′ will start on 12th March 2010 and ends on 25 April 2010 in India. West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard and New Zealand pacer Shane Bond are the highest paid IPL player of the third season of Indian Premier League. Mumbai Indians IPL team bought Kieron Pollard and Chennai Super Kings bought Shane Bond for a whopping US $750,000. IPL T20 is the really a fast food of cricket. So get ready for watching this most exciting cricketing event in coming days.
ABOUT INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE (IPL)
Nowadays, cricket lovers did not want to wait for results of the cricket match. Thus Twenty20 cricket becomes favorite of all cricket lovers in the world. To boost this twenty20 cricket, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) conduct a twenty20 cricket competition named Indian Premier League (IPL). BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi is the Chairman & Commissioner of IPL. The players of IPL are coming from all over the world and eight teams are participating in this league. The eight team names are Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super kings, Punjab Xl kings, Royal challengers, Rajasthan royals, and Delhi daredevils. Each team will play two matches with every other team. This league has two semi-finals and a final match. Each team is owned by famous people like Mukesh Ambani, Vijay Mallya, Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Preity Zinta, etc by bidding prices and owners give the huge amount to each player of their team. The IPL tournament is very different from the other cricket match because of the limited overs, and we can see entertainment all in the match.The rates of the IPL tickets range from Rs 100 to Rs 12000 . It is all about promoting and giving great opportunities to players at the domestic level. By these tournament players from different countries are getting huge cash benefits. The Sony Entertainment Television had the broadcasting rights for 10 years, they had already paid $1.026 billion dollars. The first season of the IPL was held on 18th April 2008 and Rajasthan Royals became the winners of that first IPL tournament under the captaincy of Shane Warne. They defeated the Chennai Super Kings by 3 wickets in the final played on 1st June 2008. The first season was a huge success for the IPL and in India IPL has become one of the most popular events of the year. The second season of IPL held on 18th April 2009 and Deccan Chargers won the trophy under the captaincy of Adam Gilchrist. The third season of IPL will start on 12th March, 2010 and ends on 25 April 2010 in India.There is a controversy is existing in IPL, because the players signed in this tournament are not available for their countries for international tours. However, all cricket lovers believe that IPL T20 is the really a fast food of cricket. .
IPL TEAMS FOR THIRD SEASON 2010
(1)Delhi Daredevils
Owned by GMR Group
Captain: Virender Sehwag
Squad : Virender Sehwag, AB de Villiers, Pradeep Sangwan, Umesh Yadav, Amit Mishra, Kedar Jadhav, Moises Henriques, Wayne Parnell, Sarandeep Singh, Shashi Ranjan, Sarabjeet Ladda, Ashish Nehra, Aavishkar Salvi, Mithun Manhas, David Warner, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes, Farveez Maharoof, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Joginder Singh.
(2)Deccan Chargers Hyderabad
Owned by Deccan Chronicle
Captain: Adam Gilchrist
Squad : Adam Gilchirst, Arjun Yadav, Harmeet Singh, Azhar Bilakhia, Kemar Roach, Mitchell Marsh, Anirudh Singh, A Ashish Reddy, Rahul Sharma, Bodapati Sumanth, T Suman, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Venugopal Rao, Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Ryan Harris, Dwyane Smith, Chaminda Vaas, VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Mohnish Mishra
(3) Rajasthan Royals
Owned by Emerging Media,(Shilpa Shetty & Raj Kundra)
Captain: Shane Warne
Squad : Shane Warne, Johan Botha, Damien Martyn, Michael Lumb, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Shrikant Wagh, Abhishek Raut, Sumit Narwal, Faiz Fazal, Syed Ahmed Quadri, Amit Paunikar, Kamran Khan, Amit Singh, Graeme Smith, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Morne Morkel, Shaun Tait, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Sidharth Trivedi, Swapnil Asnodkar, Mahesh Rawat, Naman Ojha, Amit Paunikar
(4)Kolkata Knight Riders
Owned by Shah Rukh Khan and his company Red Chillies, which has as the partner Juhi Chawla
Captain: Sourav Ganguly
Squad : Sourav Ganguly, Cheteshwar Pujara, Owais Shah, Chris Gayle, Manoj Tiwary, Charl Langeveldt, Harshad Khadiwale, Chirag Pathak, Varun Aaron, Eklakh Ahmed, Ganapathi Vignesh, Iqbal Abdulla, Murali Kartik, Ishant Sharma, Brendon McCullum, Brad Hodge, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashoke Dinda, Ajit Agarkar, Rohan Gavaskar
(5)Kings XI Punjab
Owned by Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia
Captain: Kumar Sangakkara
Squad : Kumar Sangakkara, Brett Lee, Mohd. Kaif, Adrian Barath, Love Ablish, Vikramjeet Malik, Amanpreet Singh, Bipul Sharma, James Hopes, Manvinder Bisla, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Yusuf Abdulla, Yash Gandhi, Karan Goel, Shaun Marsh, M Jayawardene, Ravi Bopara, Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Ramesh Powar, Piyush Chawla, Shalabh Srivastava
(6)Mumbai Indians
Owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance
Captain: Sachin Tendulkar
Squad : Sachin Tendulkar, Lasith Malinga, Saurabh Tiwary, Kieron Pollard, R Sathish, Ambati Rayudu, Aditya Tare, Chandan Madan, Ishan Malhotra, K Syed Sahabuddin, Rahul Shukla, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abhishek Nayar, Shikhar Dhawan, Jean Paul Duminy, Graham Napier, Ryan McLaren, Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Dwayne Bravo, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Ali Murtaza
(7)Royal Challengers (Bangalore)
Owned by Vijay Mallya
Captian: Rahul Dravid
Squad : Jacques Kallis, Manish Pandey, Srivats Goswami, Vinay Kumar, Bhuvanesh Kumar, K P Appanna, Eoin Morgan, Akhil Balachandra, A Mithun, Steven Smith, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn, Dillon Du Preez, Cameron White, Ross Taylor, Kevin Pietersen, Roelof van der Merwe, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, S Sriram
(8)Chennai Super Kings
Owned by India Cements
Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Squad : M S Dhoni, M. Muralidaran, M Vijay, Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Shadab Jakati, R Ashwin, K B Arun Karthik, Justin Kemp, Thisara Perera, Hemang Badani, L Balaji, S Badrinath, Suresh Raina, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Albie Morkel, Makhaya Ntini, Jacob Oram, Thilan Thushara, George Bailey, Parthiv Patel, Ganapathy Chandrasekhar
IPL THIRD SEASON SCHEDULE: (Time in IST):
12th March 8 pm Deccan Chargers vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Hyderabad
13th March 4 pm Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai
13th March 8 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi Daredevils in Mohali
14th March 4pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Kolkata
14th March 8pm Chennai Super Kings vs Deccan Chargers in Chennai
15th March 8pm Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils in Ahmedabad
16th March 4 pm Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab in Bengaluru
16th March 8 pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata
17th March 8 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Mumbai Indians in Delhi
18th March 8 pm Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals in Bengaluru
19th March 4 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Chennai Super Kings in Delhi
19th March 8 pm Deccan Chargers vs Kings XI Punjab in Vizag
20th March 4 pm Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Ahmedabad
20th March 8 pm Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mumbai
21st March 4 pm Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils in Vizag
21st March 8 pm Chennai Super Kings vs Kings XI Punjab Chennai
22nd March 8 pm Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Mumbai
23rd March 8 pm Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Chennai Super Kings in Bengaluru
24th March 8 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Rajasthan Royals in Mohali
25th March 4 pm Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Delhi Daredevils in Bangalore
25th March 8 pm Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings in Mumbai
26th March 8 pm Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers in Ahmedabad
27th March 8 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Mohali
28th March 4 pm Rajasthan Royals vs Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad
28th March 8 pm Deccan Chargers vs Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad
29th March 8 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Delhi
30th March 8 pm Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab in Mumbai
31st March 4 pm Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai
31st March 8 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals in Delhi
1st April 8 pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers in Kolkata
2nd April 8 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Mohali
3rd April 4 pm Chennai Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals in Chennai
3rd April 8 pm Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers in Mumbai
4th April 4 pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI Punjab in Kolkata
4th April 8 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Delhi
5th April 8 pm Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals in Hyderabad
6th April 8 pm Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians in Chennai
7th April 4 pm Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab in Ahmedabad
7th April 8 pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Daredevils in Kolkata
8th April 8 pm Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Deccan Chargers in Bengaluru
9th April 8 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians in Mohali
10th April 4 pm Deccan Chargers vs Chennai Super Kings in Hyderabad
10th April 8 pm Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders Bengaluru
11th April 4 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Kings XI Punjab Delhi
11th April 8 pm Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad
12th April 8 pm Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Hyderabad
13th April 4 pm Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Daredevils in Mumbai
13th April 8 pm Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai
14th April 8 pm Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad
15th April 8 pm Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils in Chennai
16th April 8 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Deccan Chargers in Dharamsala
17th April 4 pm Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians in Bengaluru
17th April 8 pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals in Kolkata
18th April 4 pm Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings in Dharamsala
18th April 8 pm Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers in Delhi
19th April 8 pm Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians in Kolkata
21st April 8 pm SEMI FINAL 1st in Bengaluru
22nd April 8 pm SEMI FINAL 2 nd in Bengaluru
24th April 8 pm 3rd Place in Navi Mumbai
25th April 8 pm FINAL Match in Navi Mumbai
