***The Official Indian Premier League Cricket Thread***

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Posted by smakmagik on Apr-18-2008 02:03:

I know there isn't much interest in cricket on TA, but for whoever's interested, this is the thread to be in.

Name: Bangalore Royal Challengers

Owner: Vijay Mallya

Ground: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Coach: Venkatesh Prasad

Captain: Rahul Dravid

Star player: Jacques Kallis

Most expensive player: Rahul Dravid, annual salary US$1,035,000
(ICON PLAYER, earning 15% more than next highest earner in franchise)

Squad: Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn (South Africa), Nathan Bracken, Cameron White (Australia), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies), Misbah-ul Haq (Pakistan), Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Praveen Kumar, Sunil Joshi, B Akhil, Vinay Kumar, Devraj Patil, Bharat Chipli, KP Appanna, B Arun Kumar, Virat Kohli, Sreevats Goswami.

Total cost of squad: US$5,795,000

Odds: 6/1 (odds provided by William Hill and correct as of 11/04/08)

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Name: Chennai Super Kings

Owner: India Cements

Ground: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Coach: Keppler Wessels

Captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Star player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Most expensive player: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, $1.5m

Squad: Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey (Australia), Stephen Fleming, Jacob Oram (New Zealand), Makhaya Ntini, Albie Morkel (South Africa), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Napolean Einstein, Abhinav Mukund, Sudeep Tyagi, Rashwin, Viraj Kadbe, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudha Srikkanth, P Amarnath, S Sresh Kumar, Arun Karthik and Shadab Jakati (India).

Total cost: $6,225,000

Odds: 10/3 favourites

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Name: Deccan Chargers

Owner: Deccan Chronicle

Ground: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

Coach: Robin Singh

Captain: VVS Laxman

Star player: Andrew Symonds

Most expensive player: Andrew Symonds, $1.35m

Squad: Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds (Australia), Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Chamara Silva (Sri Lanka), Hershelle Gibbs (South Africa), Scott Styris (New Zealand), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), VVS Laxman, RP Singh, Rohit Sharma, Venugopala Rao, Pragyan Ojha, Halhadar Das, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Arjun Yadav, Paidikalva Vijay Kumar, Kalyan Krishna, Sarveesh Kumar, Sanjay Bangar (India).

Total cost: $6,105,000

Odds: 4/1

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Name: Delhi Daredevils

Owner: GMR Holdings

Ground: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Coach: Greg Shipperd

Captain: Virender Sehwag

Star player: Virender Sehwag

Most expensive player: Virender Sehwag, $833,750 (ICON PLAYER)

Squad: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof (Sri Lanka), Daniel Vettori (New Zealand), Glenn McGrath, Brett Geeves (Australia), Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), AB de Villiers (South Africa),Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Mayank Tehlan, Pradeep Sangwan, Yo Mahesh (India).

Total cost: $6,372,500

Odds: 7/1

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Name: King's XI, Punjab

Owner: Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul and Mohit Burman

Ground: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali

Coach: Tom Moody

Captain: Yuvraj Singh

Star player: Brett Lee

Most expensive player: Yuvraj Singh, $1,063,750 (ICON PLAYER)

Squad: Simon Katich, Luke Pomersbach, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh (Australia), Kyle Mills (New Zealand), Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies), Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Yuvraj Singh, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Tanmay Srivastava, Sahil Kukreja, Sunny Sohal, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Pankaj Dharmani, Nitin Saini, Wilkin Mota (India).

Total cost: $6,503,750

Odds: 13/2

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Name: Kolkata Knight Riders

Owner: Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla & Jai Mehta

Ground: Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Coach: John Buchanan

Captain: Sourav Ganguly

Star player: Chris Gayle

Most expensive player: Sourav Ganguly, $1,092,500 (ICON PLAYER)

Squad: David Hussey, Ricky Ponting (Australia), Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan), Tatenda Taibu (Zimbabwe), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Akash Chopra, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohan Banerjee, Yashpal Singh, Debabrata Das, Sourav Ganguly, Wriddhiman Saha, Brendon McCullum, Ajit Agarkar, Iqbal Abdulla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ishant Sharma, Shoaib Akhtar, Murali Kartik, Umar Gul, Siddarth Kaul, Ranadeb Bose, Sourashish Lahiri (India).

Total cost: $6,222,500

Odds: 6/1

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Name: Mumbai Indians

Owner: Reliance Industries

Ground: Nerul, Mumbai

Coach: Lalchand Rajput

Captain: Sachin Tendulkar

Star player: Sachin Tendulkar

Most expensive player: Sachin Tendulkar, $1,121,250 (ICON PLAYER)

Squad: Loots Bosman, Ashwell Prince, Shaun Pollock (South Africa), Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Luke Ronchi, Dominic Thornely (Australia), Sachin Tendulkar, Abhishek Nayar, Ajeenkya Rahane, Ankeet Chauhan, Ashish Nehra, Dhaval Kulkarni, Gaurav Dhiman, Harbhajan Singh, Manish Pandey, Musavir Khote, Pinal Shah, Rajesh Pawar, Robin Uthappa, Rohan Raje, Saurabh Tiwary, Sidharth Chitnis, Swapnil Singh, Vikrant Yelligeti, Yogesh Takawale (India).

Total cost: $5,496,250

Odds: 6/1

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Name: Rajasthan Royals

Owner: Emerging Media

Ground: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Coach: Shane Warne

Captain: Shane Warne

Star player: Graeme Smith

Most expensive player: Mohammad Kaif, $675,000

Squad: Graeme Smith, Morne Morkel, (South Africa), Justin Langer, Shane Watson, Shane Warne (Australia), Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan), Dimitri Mascarenhas (England), Mohammad Kaif, Anoop Revandkar, Taruwar Kohli, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Siddharth Trivedi, Swapnil Asnodkar, Sumit Khatri, Munaf Patel, Pankaj Singh (India).

Total cost: $3,610,000

Odds: 12/1

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Pick a team, talk about games, results, performances.
Rant, debate, have some healthy discussions

Im doing my Masters dissertation on the IPL, and will be home for the whole second half of it, and am very very interested to see how this pans out. Have very mixed opinions of it at the moment, but I'm hoping I'm proved wrong.

Oh, and GO MUMBAI INDIANS

Posted by Philby on Apr-20-2008 12:45:

go the knight riders lol
saw bits and pieces of a couple of games, some hard hitting!
how long does this tournament go for? will this be an annual event?

Posted by smakmagik on Apr-20-2008 13:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Philby
go the knight riders lol
saw bits and pieces of a couple of games, some hard hitting!
how long does this tournament go for? will this be an annual event?

Runs till May 25th

No idea how long its going to run, they re going to see how this one goes and then decide I think.

Knight Riders chasing just 110 at the moment, but the pitch is probably the worst strip I ve ever seen and they re 90/5 with 5 overs to go.
The lights then went off at Eden Gardens AND according to the D/l method, if there is no more play, the game will be a tie!

Mumbai Indians for me, they begin their campaign in a few minutes at home.

Posted by verndogs on May-21-2008 05:44:

how is the IPL doing? You think they'll extend to a 2nd season?

Posted by Ian on May-22-2008 09:14:

quote:
Originally posted by verndogs
how is the IPL doing? You think they'll extend to a 2nd season?

easily so, however I'm finding it a bit meh. It's just trying too hard imo, with the cheerleaders & all the bullshit, rather than letting the cricket itself do the talking, and some of the fake chemistry is a bit shit, as too some of the indian players in it. With the huge squads too, you can't get into a team easily at all, however with Kevin Pietersen cleared to play next years, English eyes will obviously go wherever he does. Infact most of the england international side will be allowed to play except flintoff who's had so many problems with his foot that we'll block him going cos of the Ashes next summer.

Posted by smakmagik on May-22-2008 09:35:

Easily a few more seasons. Player contracts run 3 years I think. Went for the Mumbai game yesterday. What an absolute humdinger. Pity we lost it at the end. You're right Ian, I;'ve been saying it all along, the 20-20 format IS THE ENTERTAINMENT ! Cheerleaders and the various other nonsense that are dominating at the stadiums are a real putoff to us real cricket fans.

Next season should see a lot of action though. A few bustups have occured in teams already, and now everyone is aware of what a team needs to succeed. Good utility players and good team spirit. Should be fun if they don't make it a commercial wankfest.