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About Indian Premier League (IPL)

IPL is a league cricket match. Lalit Modi is the Chairman and Commissioner of IPL. In December 08, IPL concluded a franchisee meeting in Mumbai to apprise them about the player trading regulations for the 2009 season.

Teams in IPL

IPL 2008 Standings

Rajasthan Royals: 14 Matches Played - 11 Won - 3 Lost - 22 Points
Bangalore Royal Challengers: 14 Matches Played - 4 Won - 10 Lost - 8 Points
Kolkata Knight Riders: 14 Matches Played - 6 Won - 7 Lost - 13 Points
Punjab Kings XI: 14 Matches Played - 10 Won - 4 Lost - 20 Points
Chennai Super Kings: 14 Matches Played - 8 Won - 6 Lost - 16 Points
Delhi Daredevils: 14 Matches Played - 7 Won - 6 Lost - 15 Points
Mumbai Indians: 14 Matches Played - 7 Won - 7 Lost - 14 Points
Deccan Chargers: 14 Matches Played - 2 Won - 12 Lost - 4 Points

Indian Premier League Season 2

Indian Premier League Season 2 will be held in South Africa from April 18, 2009.

Indian Premier League (IPL) in news

PCB fines Asif for Dubai drugs detention
Pakistani cricket authorities on Thursday fined Mohammad Asif one million rupees (12,500 dollars) over the fast bowlers 19-day detention at Dubai airport for alleged drug possession. ANI

Gilly predicts Lee to fire in 2-1 Ashes victory for Australia
Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has backed a hungry Brett Lee to fire the Australians to a 2-1 victory in the 2009 Ashes series against England in England. ANI

Lackluster Tanvir vows to force his way back into Pak Test team
After being ignored for both the Test and one day international series against Sri Lanka, left arm fast bowler Sohail Tanvir has vowed to force his way back into the team. ANI

Iconic Pak cricketers emboldened to ask for much more from IPL franchises
In an apparent bid to encash on their ICC World Twenty20 triumph, certain Pakistan cricketers may ask their respective franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL) to hike their fees from the next season, The Daily Times reports. ANI

Gayle, Murli, among top stars being eyed by Victoria for T20 squad
Victoria is set to add a second international cricketer to its squad in a bid to reach a fifth consecutive Twenty20 Big Bash final next summer. ANI

Only reducing number of matches can save Test cricket from extinction: Gilchrist
Fomer Australian vice captain Adam Gilchrist has called for a drastic reduction in the number of Test matches in a bid to help preserve the five-day format from the Twenty20 challenge. ANI

IPL franchises eager to field Pakistan players again after ICC T20 win
With Pakistan pocketing the ICC World Twenty20 Championship, speculations are rife that Pakistani players would once again feature in the Indian Premier League (IPL). ANI

CA struggles to handle Oz players when their lives are spinning out of control
Cricket Australia officials are facing the chastening fact that they are not able to handle crickets wild children well, after troubled all rounder Andrew Symonds was relieved of his contract for breaking alcohol related rules during the T20 World Cup. ANI

Tanvir vows to come out with all guns blazing against Sri Lanka in ICC T20
Pakistan fast bowler Sohail Tanvir has rejected reports about him being injured, saying he would come out with all guns blazing in the match against Sri Lanka on Friday. ANI

Symonds mourned absence of beer and mate culture in next-Gen Oz mates
Controversial Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds has admitted that he has certain issues with the new young players of the national squad, due to which he is unable to gel with the young brigade. ANI

Troubled Symonds has numerous foreign offers to play
Troubled all rounder Andrew Symonds, who was send back to Australia from Twenty 20 World Cup in England for breaking alcohol related rules, has numerous foreign offers before him as he mulls over whether to continue playing in Australia. ANI

Symonds still has a future in Twenty20: Lehmann
Former Australian cricketer Darren Lehmann believes that out-of-favour all-rounder Andrew Symonds still has a future in the game, especially in the Twenty20 format. ANI

Queensland Cricket says wont turn its back on Symonds
Cricket powerbrokers in Queensland, Australia, have said that they will not be turning their backs on out-of-favour Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds. ANI

Symonds may lose millions in endorsements
Symonds stands to lose millions in endorsements from high profile companies who have backed him. ANI

Symonds says needs time to reflect about his cricket future
Cricketer Andrew Symonds returned to Brisbane on Saturday and admitted he needed time to consider what he was going to do about his playing future. ANI

Hayden says Symonds has an alcohol problem and will help him
Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden says Andrew Symonds, one of his closest friends, has an alcohol problem and that he would like to help him finally address it. ANI

Symonds may announce his retirement from international cricket
Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds is expected to announce his retirement from international cricket after he returns to Brisbane today. ANI

Symonds career limited to IPL as CA mulls discontinuing his central contract
Controversial Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds career may just be contained playing the Indian Premier League (IPL), as the Cricket Australia (CA) mulls over ending his central contract. ANI

At 73 mn dollars, Rajasthan Royals makes greatest year-on-year gain
The value of Rajasthan Royals, the cheapest of eight franchises sold before the start of the Indian Premier League, has translated into a capital yield of 73 million dollars, making it the greatest one-year gain of any sports team in its first year of existence. ANI

Axing Symonds for being too Australian wrong, says former cricketer Jones
Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones has criticized Cricket Australia and the team management for axing Andrew Symonds, and suggested that he has paid a price for being too Australian. ANI

Ex-Oz keeper Healy says frazzled Symonds secretly relieved at being axed
Former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy has said that all-rounder Andrew Symonds is secretly relieved to be out of the running, as he was tired of cricket and wanted to be dropped from national duty. ANI

Pietersen says T20 not so silly
Englands best batsman Kevin Pietersen no longer sees Twenty20 cricket as a silly aspect of the sport, adding that his view changed during the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in 2007. ANI

PCB committee recommends a hefty fine on Asif for Dubai misadventure
Tainted Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif may be slapped a hefty fine of upto two million rupees for his 19 day Dubai detention last year. ANI

Buchanan helping England prepare for Ashes
The architect of Australias thumping 5-0 victory in the last Ashes series Down Under in 2006/07, former coach John Buchanan, was in England last week for meetings with England officials and members of the team coaching staff about their Ashes strategy and planning. n a revelation bound to shock Australian cricket, the England and Wales Cricket Board invited Buchanan after recently losing his advisory contract with Cricket Australia and having worked briefly with the England Lions squad in New Zealand last winter, The Telegraph reported. iven Buchanans intimate knowledge of this Australian side it will still be seen as an act of treachery by many Australians. ANI

Bracken all braced to bowl nerve racking death overs in T20 World Cup
Nathan Bracken, who is regarded as the limited-over games best bowler, is ready for what he describes as crickets most nerve-racking job, bowling at the death of a Twenty20 World Cup match. ANI

Pietersen admits Twenty20 cricket not his cup of tea yet
After a horrendous run in the recently concluded Indian Premier League (IPL), England batsman Kevin Pietersen has admitted that he is not as good in the Twenty 20 format of the game as he is in the other two versions. ANI

Freddie Flintoff may not be a success in Ashes: Ponting
The war for Ashes 2009 has begun with Australian captain Ricky Ponting firing the first salvo, questioning whether England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will be any good this summer. ANI

IPL only heading north in popularity stakes
The second version of the Indian Premier League, which was played recently in South Africa, has only confirmed one thing - that the shortest version of game cricket is headed northwards in the popularity stakes. ANI

Former Proteas coach tips South Africa to win T20 World Cup
Former Proteas coach Eric Simons believes that South Africa will walk away with this years ICC World Twenty20 trophy. ANI

Indian cricket team to leave for England today
The Indian cricket team will leave for England on Friday for the second edition of the World T-20 Championship. ANI

Flintoff says his Ashes dream is still alive
England all rounder Andrew Flintoff believes his Ashes dream is still alive, despite being ruled out of the Twenty20 World Cup due to injury. ANI

IPL final overcrowding not due to fake tickets: Cricket South Africa
An investigation by Cricket South Africa (CSA) has found that overcrowding at the final of the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) at Liberty Life Wanderers Stadium on Sunday was not due to the use of fraudulent tickets. ANI

Loss of Zaheer will weaken Indian cricket team, says Ishant Sharma
The loss of fast bowler Zaheer Khan could diminish Indias chances of retaining the Twenty20 World Cup. ANI

IPL players welcomed on their return from South Africa
Left-arm fast bowler Rudra Pratap Singh of Hyderabad Deccan Chargers team who emerged as the highest wicket taker in the just concluded second edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament in South Africa received a grand welcome on his return to Lucknow on Tuesday. ANI

South African batting set to thrive in England
South Africa, batsmen are surely going to thrive at the ICC World Twenty20 event in England, which going to start in June, if the Indian Premier League is a reasonable yardstick for judging their form. ANI

Cricket South Africa CEO lauds success of IPL-Two
Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola has declared the DLF Indian Premier League a resounding success, saying all parties should feel proud of the collective effort that saw the IPL moved from India to South Africa at short notice. ANI

Gilchrist hails team man Symonds
Deccan Chargers skipper and former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist on Sunday hailed all-rounder Andrew Symonds as a great team man after the team was declared the 2009 Indian Premier League champions. ANI

Royal Challengers to take on Deccan Chargers in IPL-2 final
The Anil Kumble-led Royal Challengers, Bangalore (RCB), which has won seven of its last nine matches, will take on the Adam Gilchrist-inspired Deccan Chargers in the final of the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Sunday evening. ANI

Pak favorites to win Twenty20 World Cup: Akram
Former captain Wasim Akram has said that Pakistan are favorites to win the next Twenty20 World Cup beginning in England from June 5. ANI

Oz squad has talent to retain Ashes without Symonds: Ponting
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has brushed aside concerns over the omission of troubled all rounder Andrew Symonds from this years Ashes squad. ANI

Rajasthan Royals to bring IPL League road show to Lords
Rajasthan Royals will bring the Indian Premier League road show to Lords on July 6 before they face Middlesex in a charity Twenty20 match. ANI

Tourism dips in Gir sanctuary due to heat
Tourist inflow to the Gir National Park in Gujarat, the worlds only natural habitat for the rare majestic Asiatic lions, has dipped due to the intense heat. ANI

Kings XI Punjab beat Deccan Chargers by one run in IPL thriller
Kings XI Punjab skipper Yuvraj Singhs took his second hat-trick, as his team beat Deccan Chargers by one run in an Indian Premier League (IPL) thriller here on Sunday. ANI

Future of Test in hands of grounds men: Pietersen
Englands star batsman Kevin Pietersen has insisted that the five-day version of the game needs to be spiced up, pleading with grounds men that the future of the game is in their hands. ANI

Flintoff may miss World Twenty20 tournament
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is unlikely to be fit for next months World Twenty20 due to the slow response of his right knee to an operation performed last month. lintoff, 31, had keyhole surgery on April 28 after damaging his knee playing for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. ANI

Snubbed Tait looking at other options
Though fast bowler Shaun Tait, 26, has not given up hope of playing for Australia again, his frustration at Cricket Australia for preventing him from playing in the Indian Premier League for fitness reasons and for dumping him from its contract list, has made him think of other options. ANI

Angry and rejected ex-Oz pace bowler Tait says may take a trip to Greece
An irate former Australian pace bowler Shaun Tait lashed out at Cricket Australia on Friday for ruining his Indian Premier League dream and then denying him a national contract which he labelled a kick in the teeth. ANI

Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Chennai Super Kings by two wickets
Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Chennai Super Kings by two wickets in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Thursday. ANI

Symonds has less than a week to force his way into Ashes squad
Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has one week and a handful of Indian Premier League games to force his way into the Ashes squad. ANI

Steyn frustrated over not playing in IPL
South African fast bowler Dale Steyns frustration is building and he wishes he could vent it on a few batsmen. ANI

IPL, trade ties between India and South Africa will improve relations
The growing trade and the ongoing Indian Premier League will give a boost to the bilateral relations between India and South Africa, Indian High Commissioner Rajiv Bhatia has said. ANI

Pak players to discuss IPL suspension with commissioner Lalit Modi
Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Sohail Tanvir has said he and other Pakistan players will go to South Africa to discuss their Indian Premier League (IPL) suspension with tournament chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi. ANI

Proteas spinner calls IPL an unfair advantage
South African left arm spinner Roelof van der Merwe calls the Indian Premier League an unfair advantage but is happy for the role it has played in his call-up to the national squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in England next month. ANI

Australia sending out mixed signals on World T20
Given their preparation, most of the Australian squad playing one-day cricket on flat tracks in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, while the worlds best players are pushing boundaries of crickets new frontier in the Indian Premier League in South Africa, questions are being asked about how seriously Australia is taking the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup to played in England. ANI

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