Shah Rukh Khan christened Kolkata team ‘Knight Riders’INDIATIMES CRICKET
NEW DELHI, March 11: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has christened his Kolkata team Knight Riders. Unveiling the team’s mascot Hoog Lee, the actor said Hoog Lee is neither Bruce Lee nor Bret Lee and is better than all the Lees. Hoog Lee will the 17th member of the Kolkata Knight Riders. John Buchanan, former Australia coach will be the coach for the Kolkata team.
SRK also released the anthem of the team, “Karbo, Larbo, Jeetbo Re” in a glittering ceremony which was witnessed by former India skipper Saurav Gangaly, Cricket Association of Bengal, Prasun Mukherjee, team coach John Buchanan and Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla.
According to top sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the actor has registered both the titles for his team. “He wants to be doubly sure that he gets the title he wants,” a BCCI official familiar with the development said.
The IPL’s 44-day cricket bonanza will have a total of 59 T20 matches beginning from April 18.
Rajasthan Royals have upper hand
The Rajasthan Royals will be eyeing to buy the best of the 18 players, including Australians Shane Watson and James Hopes, who would be up for grabs in the auction. Besides, 16 Under-19 players will be decided by draft pick.
The Royals appear confident in their approach as far as Tuesday's auction is concerned and presence of Shane Warne, who is the captain-cum-coach of the side, indicates that the Jaipur outfit would try for the spin wizard's Hampshire team-mate Watson.
But Aussie cricket Brad Hodge may not feature in the auction even though his name appears on the list because his county side Lancashire expect him to play for them from next month.
Following is the amount other IPL franchises have:
Bangalore - $374,000
Chennai - $23,750
Delhi - $71,250
Hyderabad - $262,500
Kolkata - $107,500
Mohali - $292,250
Mumbai - $53,750
IPL launches new logo
NEW DELHI, March 10: The Indian Premier League launched its new logo on Monday.
The new logo for the League constitutes title sponsor DLF's corporate logo with the graphic of a batsman playing an attractive cricketing shot. The graphic and words for the Indian Premier League are in blue in-line with Team India's colours.
"The DLF Indian Premier League is here to stay and is set to carve out a distinct niche for itself in the international cricketing calendar."
"I am happy that India's largest real estate company, DLF will play an integral part in it into a truly world-class cricketing league," IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi said.
IPL to conduct 2nd players' auction
MUMBAI, March 10: The Cricket Board-floated Indian Premier League is to conduct a second players' auction here on Tuesday to help the team franchises to finalise their playing squads at least thirty days prior to the start of the Twenty20 event on April 18.
A fresh set of 25 players , who have already been centrally contracted to the BCCI, will also form part of the auction process which will see Pakistan players Misbah-ul-Haq, Salman Butt, Mohammed Yousuf and Yasir Hameed go under the hammer along with seven New Zealand cricketers, a media release said on Monday.
The list of Kiwi players includes pacemen Kyle Mills, James Franklin and Chris Martin, spinner Jeetan Patel and batsmen Ross Taylor, Peter Fulton and Jamie How.
All the 16 members of the under-19 World Cup winning Indian squad plus another under-19 player to be nominated by the IPL Governing Council, would be allocated to the franchisees on a "draft" format.
These colts can be signed at a fixed player fee of $30,000 and the list includes victorius captain Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Srivats Goswami and Taruvar Kohli.
As per the "draft" format, franchise owners would be made to pick up numbers 1-8. The franchise which draws number 1 in the draft will get the first choice to pick the best player that they perceive from the list. The same franchise will also get the 16th pick in the draft.
The franchise which picks number two will get the second and 15th choice and so on and so forth, the release said.
The first players’ auction saw 77 players being auctioned off for sums ranging from $1.5 million to $400,000.
Cuddapah: From cleaning lorries to getting a berth on the Indian Premier League (IPL) Hyderabad team, P Vijaykumar has come a long way from his remote village in Cuddapah district in Andhra Pradesh.
A resident of Paidikaalva village of Cuddapah district, the 21-year-old Vijaykumar is an unlikely star.
But over the last two years, he has carved out a dream for himself - playing Ranji Trophy and now he is set to hit the national scene with an IPL berth that’s left him clean bowled.
“I didn’t even know what IPL was when I got selected. Just a few days ago, my seniors explained to me what IPL is all about. I didn’t even tell anyone at home that I got selected. When I was playing for Ranji, my only goal was to play well and get maximum wickets,” says Vijaykumar.
Vijaykumar studied up to the ninth standard in the local government school, where he also doubled up as the cook who made the mid-day meals.
After school, it was time to indulge in his love for cricket and the pace bowler drew a lot of flak from home for it.
His father, David, a construction labourer and mother Sarawathi, a small time vegetable vendor, would yell at him to pull up his socks.
“When my son used to play cricket I used to scold him saying, how will you survive if you keep playing games? How will we eat if you just go to school and play cricket and cook in the school? I used to ask him all this,” Saraswathi says.
But with Rs 60 lakh in his kitty and a three-year contract with the IPL, the family’s fortunes seem set to change because of Vijaykumar’s hard work and passion.
“He’s done not just our village, but the entire district proud,” Saraswathi says.
For a person who didn’t even dream of playing beyond the Ranji, Vijaykumar will now rub shoulders with international stars like Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist and Chaminda Vaas.
And a place in the Indian team, too, doesn’t seem too far away
SOURCE : IBN LIVE
Finally, the most expensive team in IPL - the IPL mumbai team has a name - Mumbai Indians. This was announced today at a promo event to announce the name and unveil the logo. The logo incidentally is a Sudarshan chakra and team colors are blue.
Sachin Tendulkar was present at the function and said he would enjoy opening with Sanath Jayasuriya.
What do you think about the name Reliance Industries has come up with for its team?
IPL Mumbai franchise owner Reliance has said that with the right marketing large crowds will fill the stands in the IPL tournament. All said and done the IPL is a domestic tournament with 8 cities in India participating. So, when the long established Duleep and Ranji trophies hardly get a few hundred specators will more come for IPL?
The Reliance Retail Chief R. Balanchandran, said with all due respect when was the last time any thing done to promote these domestic tournaments. Not one bit. So, how can you expect crowds. But the IPL will be a compressed calendar cricket tournament featuring top talent from every part of the world and you can expect a whirlwind of promotion from all stake holders and the crowds will pack the stands particularly after the recent success of the Indian team in major tournaments - tri-series in Australia and under-19 world cup.
IPL Mumbai team will have four new players. Reliance Group who are the owners of the IPL Mumbai team for the next 10 years have signed up Baroda wicket-keeper Pinal Shah. Other player who were signed up are Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane from Mumbai and Maharashtra’s Yogesh Takawale.
These four will feature in the inagural edition of the IPL which will kick off on Apr 18 with a match between Bangalore and Kolkata at Bangalore.
The tussle that began inoccently enough with an email by the Cricket Association of Bengal(CAB) Chairman to Lalit Modi raising the issue of the 80:20 ratio for ticket allocation between Red Chillies Entertainment the owner of the Kolkata IPL franchise and CAB has been steadily snowballing. The associates and partners and other affiliates who used to get large portions of the Eden Garden tickets are now fighting for a bigger share saying 20 percent is not enough.
Lalit Modi initially had taken a tough stand saying take or leave it. If you don’t want to host the matches, we are fine with it. We will just go to another city that is willing and ready to host the matches. It looked like the CAB had backed down after the tough stance.
But at the meeting of all the stakeholders - the old warhorse and former chairman of the BCCI and ICC Jagmohan Dalmiya jumped into the fray and became the pointsman for all the opposing factions. Now, Dalmiya is spearheading the move demanding atleast 50 percent of the seats.
Shah Rukh Khan has said a firm NO. We won’t compromise on this. We were promised 80 percent of the seats and we will not budge on that. It is for the BCCI to work out the details with the CAB. We are not directly involved in the issue. So, the ball is firmly back in the court of the BCCI.
Let’s see how things work out.
As already reported in these pages, Shah Rukh Khan has roped in Ganesh Hegde to do a music video for the IPL Kolkata team. Ganesh will choreograph and direct the video. No guesses for who will be in the video egging his team on. Yes, King Khan will be the star attraction of the video.
Vishal-Shekar have composed the music for the video.
David Hussey who has been bought by the IPL Kolkata team for $625,000 dollars has got the all clear to play for the IPL team. He was already contracted with Nottinghamshire - the English county team.
By playing in IPL David will be missing out on 5 matches thatreaNottinghamshire team will be playing during that time. But, both Hussey and the county have reached an amicable settlement that allows Hussey to take part in the IPL without any hassle.
With the Great Indian victory down under, cricket is surely the flavor of the season. While India’s next series is the three Test series against the South Africans at home, fans are actually looking forward to the grand launch of probably cricket’s biggest event, the prestigious IPL (Indian Premiere League) which kicks off from April 18th.
Adding glamour to the cricketing action would be the presence of Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta who own the franchise of the Kolkata and Mohali teams respectively. Needless to say both Khan and Zinta are leaving no stone unturned to get maximum publicity for their teams.
The latest news doing the rounds is that SRK has roped in good friend Ganesh Hegde to choreograph and direct a music video for his Kolkata team. A source, close to Hegde, confirmed the news, “Yes, Ganesh is doing the music video for SRK. We can’t reveal much about the video.” When asked if it would feature King Khan, the source remained tight-lipped but later hinted, “Aggar unka video hai to woh to honge hi na…” For those who came in late, music director duo Vishal-Shekhar who composed the music for SRK’s hit film Om Shanti Om have apparently composed the music for this video.
Meanwhile, the buzz is that Preity Zinta has apparently signed music director duo Sajid-Wajid to compose a song for her Mohali team. The song has been recorded by Bhangra King Daler Mehndi.
Well with such big names getting involved in the inaugural edition of the IPL, things are only gonna get hotter in the days to come.
SOURCE : BOLLYWOOD HUNGAMA
Pakistan batting mainstay Younis Khan feels the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises have made a big mistake by not spending more on Pakistani players.
Younis said he was surprised that not many Pakistani players were snapped up by the IPL franchises in the bidding held in Mumbai last month.
The teams brought only seven Pakistani players including Younis with flamboyant allrounder, Shahid Afridi fetching the highest bid price of USD 675,000.
Prolific batsman Misbah-ul-Haq was later brought by Shahrukh Khan’s Kolkata team for USD 180,000.
Younis said the teams should have depended more on Indian and Pakistani players specially since they are more well versed in playing the Twenty20 version of the game.
“I just think it’s all a big mistake. You look at the performances of the Indian and Pakistani players in the T20 World Cup. Our players should have been brought for more money and in bigger numbers,” he said.
Younis said he was confident that next year the franchises would realise their mistake and Pakistani players would be in more demand.
On the captaincy issue, Younis said he was firm and right in not accepting the leadership of the Pakistan team.
“I took this decision because I am more happy playing as a ordinary member of the team. I just think that I am a bit aggressive and given the different influences in the team at times my nature would have created problems,” he said.
“I did the right thing in not accepting the Pakistan captaincy because it will help me prolong my career. I remain pro-active on the field even as a ordinary player and give my advice where necessary and when asked for,” he added.
On the upcoming home series against Australian which is in doubt due to the world champions’ security concerns, Younis said tour didn’t go ahead as per schedule in March-April.
“Even we as players like to compete against the best and do well. And even our people want to see the best players in action in their own grounds. I think they would love to see Ricky Pointing in action in Pakistan,” he said.
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| Name | Age | Nationality | Playing role | Bidding Price |
| Shane Warne | 38 | Australia | Bowler | US$ 450,000 |
| Graeme Smith | 27 | South Africa | All Rounder | US$ 475,000 |
| Yusuf Pathan | 25 | India | All Rounder | US$ 475,000 |
| Kamran Akmal | 26 | Pakistan | Batsman | US$ 150,000 |
| Mohammad Kaif | 27 | India | Batsman | US$ 675,000 |
| Munaf Patel | 24 | India | Bowler | US$ 275,000 |
| Justin Langer | 38 | Australia | Batsman | US$ 200,000 |
| Younis Khan | 31 | Pakistan | Batsman | US$ 225,000 |
| Pankaj Singh | 22 | India | Bowler | None |
| Anoop Revandkar | 21 | India | None |
Mumbai
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| Name | Age | Nationality | Playing role | Bidding Price |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 34 | India | All Rounder | Icon Player |
| Harbhajan Singh | 27 | India | Bowler | US$ 850,000 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | 37 | Sri Lanka | All Rounder | US$ 975,000 |
| Shaun Pollock | 35 | South Africa | All Rounder | US$ 550,000 |
| Robin Uthappa | 22 | India | Batsman | US$ 800,000 |
| Lasith Malinga | 24 | Sri Lanka | Bowler | US$ 350,000 |
| Dilhara Fernando | 29 | Sri Lanka | Bowler | US$ 150,000 |
| Loots Bosman | 30 | South Africa | Batsman | US$ 175,000 |
| Ajinkya Rahanec | 19 | India | All Rounder | None |
| Abhishek Nayar | 24 | India | Bowler | None |
| Yogesh Takawale | 23 | India | Batsman / WK | None |
| Pinal Shahc | 20 | India | Batsman / WK | None |
Mohali
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| Name | Age | Nationality | Playing role | Bidding Price |
| Yuvraj Singh | 26 | India | Batsman | Icon Player |
| Mahela Jayawardene | 30 | Sri Lanka | Batsman | US$ 475,000 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | 30 | Sri Lanka | Batsman / WK | US$ 850,000 |
| Brett Lee | 31 | Australia | Bowler | US$ 900,000 |
| Irfan Pathan | 23 | India | Bowler | US$ 925,000 |
| Sreesanth | 25 | India | Bowler | US$ 625,000 |
| Piyush Chawla | 19 | India | US$ 400,000 | |
| Ramesh Powar | 29 | India | US$ 170,000 | |
| Ramnaresh Sarwan | 27 | West Indies | Batsman | US$ 225,000 |
| Simon Katich | 32 | Australia | Batsman | US$ 200,000 |
| VRV Singh | 23 | India | None | |
| Uday Kaul | 20 | India | Batsman / WK | None |
| Karan Goel | 21 | India | None |
Kolkata
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| Name | Age | Nationality | Playing role | Bidding Price |
| Sourav Ganguly | 35 | India | All Rounder | Icon Player |
| Ishant Sharma | 19 | India | Bowler | US$ 950,000 |
| Chris Gayle | 28 | West Indies | All Rounder | US$ 950,000 |
| Brendon McCullum | 26 | Australia | Batsman / WK | US$ 700,000 |
| David Hussey | 30 | Australia | Batsman | US$ 675,000 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | 32 | Pakistan | Bowler | US$ 450,000 |
| Murali Kartik | 31 | India | Bowler | US$ 425,000 |
| Ricky Ponting | 33 | Australia | Batsman | US$ 400,000 |
| Ajit Agarkar | 30 | India | All Rounder | US$ 350,000 |
| Umar Gul | 24 | Pakistan | Bowler | US$ 150,000 |
| Tatenda Taibu | 24 | Zimbadwe | Batsman / WK | US$ 125,000 |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | 33 | Pakistan | Batsman | US$ 180,000 |
Hyderabad
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Franchise History
The IPL Hyderabad franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle, the media group acquired the franchise for $107 million.
| Name | Age | Nationality | Playing role | Bidding Price |
| V. V. S. Laxman | 33 | India | Batsman | $375,000 |
| Andrew Symonds | 32 | Australia | All Rounder | $1,350,000 |
| R. P. Singh | 22 | India | Bowler | $875,000 |
| Rohit Sharma | 20 | India | Batsman | $750,000 |
| Adam Gilchrist | 36 | Australia | Batsman / WK | $700,000 |
| Shahid Afridi | 27 | Pakistan | All Rounder | $675,000 |
| Herschelle Gibbs | 33 | South Africa | Batsman | $575,000 |
| Chaminda Vaas | 34 | Sri Lanka | Bowler | $200,000 |
| Scott Styris | 32 | New Zealand | All Rounder | $175,000 |
| Nuwan Zoysa | 30 | Sri Lanka | Bowler | $110,000 |
| Chamara Silva | 28 | Sri Lanka | Batsman | $100,000 |
| Venugopal Rao | 25 | India | Batsman | None |
| Arjun Yadav | 26 | India | None | |
| Pragyan Ojha | 21 | India | Bowler | None |
| P Vijay Kumar | 21 | India | None | |
| D Ravi Teja | 20 | India | None | |
| D Kalyan Krishna | India | None | ||
| N Sarveesh Kumar | India | None | ||
| Halhadar Das | 21 | India | Batsman / WK | None |
Delhi DareDevils
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Franchise History
During the franchise auction for the Indian Premier League teams GMR group acquired the rights for the Delhi franchise for $84 million. The team will be captained by Virender Sehwag, who is also the designated icon player for the franchise.
| Name | Age | Nationality | Playing role | Bidding Price |
| Virender Sehwag | 29 | India | All Rounder | Icon Player |
| Daniel Vettori | 29 | New Zealand | All Rounder | US$ 625,000 |
| Mohammad Asif | 25 | Pakistan | Bowler | US$ 650,000 |
| Shoaib Malik | 26 | Pakistan | All Rounder | US$ 500,000 |
| Dinesh Karthik | 23 | India | Batsman / WK | US$ 525,000 |
| AB de Villiers | 24 | South Africa | Batsman / WK | US$ 300,000 |
| Farveez Maharoof | 23 | Sri Lanka | All Rounder | US$ 225,000 |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | 31 | Sri Lanka | Batsman | US$ 250,000 |
| Gautam Gambhir | 26 | India | Batsman | US$ 725,000 |
| Manoj Tiwary | 22 | India | Batsman | US$ 675,000 |
| Glenn McGrath | 37 | Australia | Bowler | US$ 350,000 |
| Rajat Bhatia | 28 | India | All Rounder | None |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 22 | India | Batsman | None |
| Mithun Manhas | 28 | India | All Rounder | None |
| Mayank Tehlan | 21 | India | All Rounder | None |
