Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League (also known as the "DLF Indian Premier League" and often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi. The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008, and ended on 1 June 2008 with the victory of the Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

As the second season of the IPL coincided with multi-phase 2009 Indian general elections, the Indian Central Government refused to release the Indian paramilitary forces to provide security, saying the forces would be stretched too thinly if they were to safeguard both the IPL and the elections. As a result, the BCCI decided to host the second season of the league outside India.[3] On 24 March 2009, the BCCI officially announced that the second season of the IPL will be held in South Africa.Though India did not host the second season, the format of the tournament remained unchanged from the 2008 season format.

The third season of IPL is scheduled to be held in India from 12 March 2010 over a period of 45 days.[4] Four new venues, Nagpur, Vishakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala, have been added[5] over season 1 of IPL and the number of matches has been increased to 94.[6] Other changes include removal of icon players[7] and granting permission to players who were involved in the Indian Cricket League to play in the tournament.

Franchisees

The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008.[9] While the total base price for auction was US $400 million, the auction fetched US $723.59 million.[10] The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were as follows.

Franchise Owner(s) Price (USD)
Mumbai Indians Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries) $ 111.9 m
Royal Challengers Bangalore Vijay Mallya (UB Group) $ 111.6 m
Deccan Chargers Deccan Chronicle(Venkat Ram Reddy) $ 107.0 m
Chennai Super Kings India Cements (N.Srinivasan) $ 91.90 m
Delhi Daredevils GMR Holdings (Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao) $ 84.0 m
Kings XI Punjab Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Priety Zinta,
Mohit Burman (Dabur) and Karan Paul
(Apeejay Surendera Group) $ 76.0 m
Kolkata Knight Riders Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan,
Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and J Mehta) $ 75.1 m
Rajasthan Royals Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha
and Suresh Chellaram), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra $ 67.0 m

Team Records

Records - Tests
Team records
Highest team total: 705-7 decl v Australia at Sydney (2003/04)

Lowest team total: 42 v England at Lord's (1974)

Individual records
Most matches: 159 by Sachin Tendulkar
Most Successful Captain: Sourav Ganguly ; Won 21 Tests out of 49.

Batting
Most runs: 12,773 (World Record): Sachin Tendulkar
Best average: 54.58 by Sachin Tendulkar
Highest individual score: 319 by Virender Sehwag v South Africa at Chennai (2007/08)
Record partnership: 413 Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad v New Zealand at Chennai 1955/56 (1st wicket)
Most centuries: 42 (World Record): Sachin Tendulkar
Best Debut Performance : 131 by Sourav Ganguly v England at Lord's (1996)

Bowling
Most wickets: 619 by Anil Kumble
Best average: 28.23 by Sreesanth
Best innings bowling: 10-74 by Anil Kumble against Pakistan at Delhi (1998/99)
Best match bowling: 16-136 by Narendra Hirwani against West Indies at Chennai (1987/88)
Best career strike rate: 51.8 by Sreesanth
Best economy rate: 1.67 by Bapu Nadkarni

Fielding
Most catches (World Record): 184 by Rahul Dravid
Most dismissals: 198 (160 catches, 38 stumpings) by Syed Kirmani
Most dismissals in an inning: 6 (5 catches, 1 stumping) by Syed Kirmani vs New Zealand at Christchurch (1975/76) and 6 (6 catches) by Dhoni vs New Zealand at Wellington (2009).

Records - ODIs
Team records
Highest team total: 413-5 in 50 overs v Bermuda at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (2007/08)
Lowest team total: 54 in 26.3 overs v Sri Lanka at Sharjah (2000/01)
Most sixes in an inning: 18 v Bermuda at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (2007/08) and 18 v New Zealand at AMI Stadium, Christchurch

Individual records
Most matches: Sachin Tendulkar 435
Most innings: Sachin Tendulkar 424
Most number of Man of the Match Awards (World Record): 59 by Sachin Tendulkar
Most Consecutive Man of the Match Award (World Record): 4 by Sourav Ganguly

Batting
Most runs: 17,168 (World Record) by Sachin Tendulkar[2]
Best average: 50.58 by Mahendra Dhoni
Highest individual score: 186* by Sachin Tendulkar vs. New Zealand at Hyderabad (1999/00)
Record partnership(World Record): 331 by Rahul Dravid & Sachin Tendulkar for the 2nd wicket vs. New Zealand at Hyderabad (1999/00)
Most centuries: 45 (World Record) by Sachin Tendulkar
Most Half-centuries: 92(World Record) by Sachin Tendulkar

Bowling
Most wickets: 337 Anil Kumble
Best average: 27.45 Kapil Dev
Best innings bowling: 6/12 Anil Kumble v West Indies at Kolkata (1993/94)
Best career strike rate: 32.9 Ajit Agarkar
Best career economy rate: 3.71 Kapil Dev

Fielding
Most dismissals: 167 (129 catches, 38 stumpings) by Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Most dismissals in an innings: 6 (5 catches, 1 stumping) by Mahendra Singh Dhoni at Headingley, Leeds, England on 2 September 2007 (vs England).
Most catches (World Record): Rahul Dravid, 194

Sachin Crosses 17000 Mark World Records

Sachin Tendulkar crosses 17000-run mark in ODIs


After completing 17,000 runs in the 50-over format of the game, Sachin Tendulkar scored his 45th ODI century off just 81 balls during the More Pictures
fifth One-Day International against Australia in Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad.

Earlier, Tendulkar finally touched the magical 17,000-run mark in One-Day International cricket, when he completed the formality of scoring seven runs needed to reach another milestone in his glittering career.

Sanath Jayasuriya is second on the list with 13,377 runs while Aussie captain Ricky Ponting has a lot of catching up to do.

The moment Tendulkar attained that mark the packed vociferous Rajiv Gandhi Stadium crowd jumped out of their seats and erupted in jubilation.

Tendulkar's wait to reach the 17,000-run mark in One-dayers continued in Mohali as he missed the milestone by just seven runs after getting dismissed for 40 on a dubious decision in the fourth ODI against Australia.

The 36-year-old scored the requisite seven runs to put another feather in his cap, which is already full of feathers but still managing to have some more. The Indian batting legend has 45 One-day hundreds and 91 ODI fifties under his belt.

The diminutive Mumbaikar, who made his ODI debut Pakistan in 1989, is already way ahead of his contemporaries when it comes to accumulating runs.

Rated as the world's best batsman after Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman, Tendulkar has an awe-inspiring Test record. In the whopping 159 matches that he has played thus far, Tendulkar has scored 12,773 runs at an average of 54.58.


The break-up of Tendulkar's run tally against various opponents:

2995 runs in 66 matches vs Australia
1335 runs in 36 matches vs England
1750 runs in 42 matches vs New Zealand
2389 runs in 67 matches vs Pakistan
1655 runs in 52 matches vs South Africa
2749 runs in 74 matches vs Sri Lanka
1571 runs in 38 matches vs West Indies
1377 runs in 34 matches vs Zimbabwe
354 runs in 10 matches vs Bangladesh
57 runs in 1 match vs Bermuda
4 runs in 1 match vs Ireland
647 runs in 10 matches vs Kenya
152 runs in 1 match vs Namibia
52 runs in 1 match vs Netherlands
81 runs in 2 matches vs UAE.

One-day cricket's leading run-scorers

Sachin Tendulkar (IND) 17,000
Sanath Jayasuriya (SRI) 13,377
Ricky Ponting (AUS) 12,286
Inzamam-ul Haq (PAK) 11,739
Sourav Ganguly (IND) 11,363
Rahul Dravid (IND) 10,765
Brian Lara (WIS) 10,405
Jacques Kallis (RSA) 10,328

Know More Indian Team

Personnel
This lists all the players who have played for India in the past year, and the forms in which they have played. Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble have played for India in the last year, but have since retired. The BCCI awards central contracts to its players, its pay graded according to the importance of the player.[38] One B grade contract, Subramaniam Badrinath, and three C grade contracts, Piyush Chawla, Wasim Jaffer and Sreesanth, all of whom have played for India in the past, have not played in the last year. D grade contract holders Manpreet Gony, Mohammad Kaif, Parthiv Patel and Robin Uthappa are all former internationals who have not played in the last year, whilst Ravichandran Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Ashok Dinda, Chetanya Nanda, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wriddhiman Saha and Sudeep Tyagi also hold D grade contracts.

Grade A - Rs 60 Lakhs
Grade B - Rs 40 Lakhs
Grade C - Rs 25 Lakhs
Grade D - Rs 15 Lakhs
Key

C/G = Contract grade
S/N = Shirt number
Name Age Batting Style Bowling Style Domestic team Zone C/G Forms S/N
Captain and wicket keeper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 28 Right Hand Bat Jharkhand East A Test, ODI, Twenty20 7
Opening batsmen
Gautam Gambhir 28 Left Hand Bat Leg Break Delhi North A Test, ODI, Twenty20 5
Virat Kohli 21 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Delhi North D ODI 18
Virender Sehwag 30 Right Hand Bat Off Break Delhi North A Test, ODI, Twenty20 46
Murali Vijay 25 Right Hand Bat Off Break Tamil Nadu South D Test
Middle-order batsmen
Rahul Dravid 36 Right Hand Bat Off Break Karnataka South A Test 19
V. V. S. Laxman 35 Right Hand Bat Off Break Hyderabad South A Test 22
Suresh Raina 22 Left Hand Bat Off Break Uttar Pradesh Central B ODI, Twenty20 48
Yuvraj Singh 27 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm Punjab North A Test, ODI, Twenty20 12
Rohit Sharma 22 Right Hand Bat Off Break Mumbai West B ODI, Twenty20 45
Sachin Tendulkar 36 Right Hand Bat Leg Break
Off Break Mumbai West A Test, ODI, Twenty20 10
Wicket-keepers
Dinesh Karthik 24 Right Hand Bat Tamil Nadu South D Test, ODI, Twenty20 91
All-rounders
Ravindra Jadeja 20 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm Saurashtra West ODI, Twenty20 84
Abhishek Nayar 26 Left Hand Bat Right Medium Mumbai West ODI, Twenty20 24
Irfan Pathan 25 Left Hand Bat Left Medium Fast Baroda West B ODI, Twenty20 63
Yusuf Pathan 26 Right Hand Bat Off Break Baroda West C ODI, Twenty20 27
Seamers
Lakshmipathy Balaji 28 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Tamil Nadu South ODI 55
Zaheer Khan 31 Right Hand Bat Left Medium Fast Mumbai West A Test, ODI, Twenty20 34
Praveen Kumar 23 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Uttar Pradesh Central C ODI 8
Ashish Nehra 30 Right Hand Bat Left Arm Medium Fast Delhi North ODI 64
Munaf Patel 26 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast Maharashtra West B Test, ODI 13
R. P. Singh 23 Right Hand Bat Left Medium Fast Uttar Pradesh Central B ODI, Twenty20 9
Ishant Sharma 21 Right Hand Bat Right Fast Delhi North B Test, ODI, Twenty20 29
Spin bowlers
Amit Mishra 26 Right Hand Bat Leg Break Haryana North C Test 99
Pragyan Ojha 23 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm orthodox Hyderabad South C ODI, Twenty20 30
Harbhajan Singh 29 Right Hand Bat Off Break Punjab North A Test, ODI, Twenty20 3

[edit] Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Gary Kirsten
Mental Conditioning Coach: Paddy Upton
Fitness Trainer: Ramji Srinivasan
Physiotherapist: Nitin Patel
Masseur: Ramesh Mane
Performance Analyst: C.K.M. Dhananjai

Indian cricket

Test status granted 1932
First Test match v England at Lord's, London, 25-28 June 1932
Captain M.S. Dhoni
Coach Gary Kirsten
Official ICC Test and ODI ranking 3rd (Test)
2nd (ODI) [1]
Test matches
- This year 430
3
Last Test match v New zealand at, Wellington,
03-07 April 2009
Wins/losses
- This year 99/136

India national cricket team
The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.

The Indian cricket team is currently ranked third(as of 1 October 2009) by the ICC in Tests and second(as of 1 October 2009) in ODIs.[1] As of April 7, 2009, the Indian team has played 430 Test matches, winning 99, losing 136 and drawing 194 of its games, with also 1 tied match.[2] India has a relatively better record in One Day Internationals, winning over 50% of matches played. Currently, Gary Kirsten serves as the head coach while Mahendra Singh Dhoni serves as the captain of the Indian cricket team in all forms of the game.[3] Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a country record for most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins)[4] and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket.[5]

Though cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team didn't play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.[6] They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.[7] In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches.[8] The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet. Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has continued to be highly ranked since then in all forms of cricket. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003. It also won the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007. The team contained many of the world's greatest players, including Sourav Ganguly,Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid who hold numerous cricketing world records.