On: Sunday, May 11, 2008
Indian Premier League
Administrator(s)-BCCI
Cricket format-Twenty20
Tournament format(s)-Round Robin and Knockout
Total participants-8 (2008)
The Indian Premier League (also known as the "DLF (Delhi Land and Finance) Indian Premier League"), is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008.
Television rights
On 15 January 2008 it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League. The record deal has duration of ten years at a cost of US$1.026 billion. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US$918 million for the television broadcast rights and US$108 million for the promotion of the tournament.
20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012 after which the share of IPL would go up.
Sony-WSG then re-sold parts of the broadcasting rights geographically to other companies. Below is a summary of the broadcasting rights around the world.
Winning Bidder --Regional Broadcast Rights --Terms of Deal
Sony/World Sport Group --Global Rights, India --10 years at USD 1.026 Billion
Network Ten -- Free-to-air television in Australia --5 years at USD 10-15 Million.
Setanta Sports -- United Kingdom and Ireland on a subscription basis --5 years, terms not disclosed
Arab Digital Distribution -- Middle East broadcast rights on ADD's ART Prime Sport channel. Will broadcast to United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Libya. --10 Years, terms not released.
Willow TV -- Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America. --5 years, terms not released.
Super Sport -- South Africa broadcast rights --Terms not released
GEO Super -- Pakistan broadcast rights --Terms not released
Asian Television Network -- Canadian broadcast rights. Aired on ATN's CBN & ATN Cricket Plus channels on a subscription basis. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well. -- 5 years, terms not released.
Player signings
The players' auctions were held on February 20. The IPL placed icon status on a select few marquee Indian players. These players were Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, YuvrajSingh and Virender Sehwag. Laxman initially named an icon player, later voluntarily opted out of his icon status to give his team (Deccan Chargers)more money to bid for players.
Controversies
The BCCI had found itself in the middle of many conflicts with various cricket boards around the world as a result of the IPL. The main point of contention was that signed players should always be available to their country for international tours, even if it overlaps with the IPL season. To address this, the BCCI officially requested that the ICC institute a time period in the International Tours Program solely for the IPL season. This request was not granted at a subsequent meeting held by the ICC.
Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board
Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the
Another result of the ECB’s on-going fear of players fleeing to the IPL was a proposed radical response of creating their own Twenty20 tournament that would be similar in structure to the IPL. The league—titled the English Premier League—would feature 21 teams in three groups of seven and would occur towards the end of the summer season. The ECB has already enlisted the aid of Texas Billionaire Allen Stanford to launch the proposed league. Stanford was the brains behind the successful Stanford 20/20, a tournament that has run twice in the
Conflicts with Cricket Australia
The BCCI also experienced run-ins with Cricket Australia (CA) over player availability for
Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board
Many players from the Pakistan Cricket Team who were not offered renewed central contracts (or decided to reject new contracts) decided to join the rival Indian Cricket League. Two such players—Naved-ul-Hasan and Mushtaq Ahmed also held contracts with English Counties. The PCB decided to issue No Objection Certificates for these players to play with their county teams on the basis that since they were no longer contracted to the PCB, there was no point in not granting them their NOCs. The latter did not sit well with the BCCI, as it went against the hard line stance they had taken on players who joined the ICL.
Conflicts with other Boards
Smaller boards like the WICB and NZCB have raised concerns over the impact the IPL will have on their player development and already fragile financial situation. Since players from smaller cricketing nations are not compensated as much, they have more motivation to join the lucrative IPL. The latter has obvious negative effects on their national development of cricket.
Media restrictions
Initially the IPL enforced strict guidelines to media covering Premier League matches, consistent with their desire to use the same model sports leagues in
However specialist cricket websites such as cricinfo and cricket365 continued to be banned from providing live coverage from the grounds and from purchasing match images from press agencies. As a result, on April 18th major international agencies including Reuters and AFP announced their decision to provide no coverage of the IPL.
Cheerleaders
The IPL has been criticised by a few politicians and feminists for bringing in foreign cheerleaders, which is seen by many to not be in the aditional spirit of the game, as well as being against extremely antiquated and ancient Indian sensibilities purported to be upheld by these naysayers.
IPL - Indian Premier League 2008 Twenty 20 (20 20) Cricket Matches Schedule
IPL-Indian premier League 2008 Matches Schedule Dates & Location
Start Date : Friday, 18th April,2008
IPL Match : Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata KnightRiders
Time : 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT .
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Date: Saturday, 19th April, 2008.
IPL Match: IPL Mohali v Chennai Super Kings.
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.
Date: Saturday, 19th April, 2008.
IPl Match: Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Sunday 20th, April 2008.
IPL Match: Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Time: 09:30 GMT.
Venue: Venue TBC, Mumbai.
Date: Sunday 20th, April 2008.
IPL Match: Kolkata Knight Riders v IPL Hyderabad
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date: Mon 21st, April 2008.
IPL Match: Rajasthan Royals v IPL Mohali
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT.
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date: Tue 22nd April, 2008.
IPL Match: Hyderabad v Delhi Daredevils
Time: 13:30.
Venue: TBC, Hyderabad.
Date :Wed 23rd April, 2008.
IPL Match: Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Date: Thursday, 24th April, 2008.
IPL Match: Hyderabad v Rajasthan Royals
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT IPL
Venue: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
Date: Fri 25th April, 2008.
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: IPL Mohali v Mumbai Indians
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Date: Sat 26th April, 2008.
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals.
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Date: Sat 26th April, 2008.
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Date: Sun 27 th April, 2008.
Time: 09:30 GMT
Match: Mumbai Indians v IPL Hyderabad
Venue: TBC, Mumbai.
Date: Sun 27th April, 2008.
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: IPL Mohali v Delhi Daredevils
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.
Date: Mon 28th April, 2008.
Time: 13:30 GMT
Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: TBC, Bangalore.
Date: Tue 29 th April, 2008.
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date: Wed 30th April, 2008.
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Thursday 1st May 2008
Time: 09:30 GMT
Match : IPL Hyderabad v IPL Mohali
Venue :TBC,Hyderabad .
Date: Thu 1st May, 2008.
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date : Fri 2nd May, 2008
Time : 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match : Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils
Time : MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
Date : Sat 3rd May, 2008
Time : 09:30 GMT
Match: IPL Hyderabad v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue : TBC, Hyderabad .
Date: Sat 3rd May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: IPL Mohali v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.
Date: Sun 4th May, 2008
Time: 09:30 GMT
Match: Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils
Venue: TBC, Mumbai.
Date: Sun 4th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date: Mon 5th May, 2008
Time: 9:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v IPL Mohali
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Date: Tue 6th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Chennai Super Kings v IPL Hyderabad
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Date: Wed 7th May, 2008.
Time: 13:30 GMT
Match: Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals
Venue: TBC, Mumbai.
Date: Thu 8th May, 2008
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Match: Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Thu 8th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Kolkata Knight Riders v Bangalore Royal
Challengers
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date: Fri 9th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Rajasthan Royals v IPL Hyderabad
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date: Sat 10 th May, 2008
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Date: Sat 10th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Chennai Super Kings v IPL Mohali
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Date: Sun 11th May, 2008
Time: 09:30 GMT IPL
Match: Hyderabad v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue: TBC, Hyderabad.
Date: Sun 11th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date: Mon 12th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT IPL
Match: Mohali v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, and Chandigarh.
Date: Tue 13th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match : Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils
Venue : Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date: Wed 14th May, 2008
Time: 09:30 GMT
Match: Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: TBC, Mumbai.
Date: Wed 14th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: IPL Mohali v Rajasthan Royals
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.
Date: Thu 15th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Delhi Daredevils v IPL Hyderabad
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Fri 16th May, 2008
Time: 13:30 GMT
Match: Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue: TBC, Mumbai.
Date: Sat 17th May, 2008
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Match: Delhi Daredevils v IPL Mohali
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Sat 17th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Rajasthan Royals v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date: Sun 18th May, 2008
Time: 09:30 GMT
Match: IPL Hyderabad v Mumbai Indians
Venue: TBC, Hyderabad.
Date: Sun 18th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date: Mon 19th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Date: Tue 20th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date : Wed 21st May,2008
Time : 09:30 GMT
Match : Mumbai Indians v IPL Mohali
Venue : TBC,Mumbai .
Date: Wed 21st May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Chennai Super Kings v Bangalore Royal Challengers
Venue: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Date: Thu 22nd May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Fri 23rd May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: IPL Mohali v IPL Hyderabad
Venue: Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh.
Date: Sat 24th May, 2008
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Match: Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
Date: Sat 24th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals
Time: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Date: Sun 25th May, 2008
Time: 15:00 local, 09:30 GMT
Match: Bangalore Royal Challengers v IPL Hyderabad
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Date: Sun 25th May, 2008
Time: 20:00 local, 14:30 GMT
Match: Kolkata Knight Riders v IPL Mohali
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Date: Mon 26th May, 2008
Time: 19:00 local, 13:30 GMT
Match: Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.
Date: Tue 27th May, 2008.
Time: 13:30 GMT
Match: IPL Hyderabad v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: TBC, Hyderabad.
First IPL Semi Final
Date: Friday, 30th May, 2008
Match: Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.
Second IPL Semi Final
Date: Friday, 31st May, 2008
Match: 2nd Semi-Final, Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.
Indian Premier League 2008 Final
Date: Sunday 1st June 2008
Match: Final - TBC v TBC
Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.
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