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A men’s T20 professional cricket league in India is known as the Indian Premier League (IPL). Ten teams representing three Indian states and seven Indian cities compete in it every year. The BCCI established the league in 2007. The IPL’s current chairman is Brijesh Patel. Founded in 2008, the IPL is a competitive Twenty20 (T20) cricket league in India. The league has clubs in important Indian cities and uses a per-round batch and knockout format. The IPL, a competitive Twenty20 cricket league founded by the BCCI in 2007, entered its 15th season in 2022. It is also known as IPL 15 or, for funding reasons, Tata IPL 2022.
Let’s Explore IPL
The IPL, which was created by the BCCI, has grown to be the most profitable and well-liked cricket league in the world. Matches typically start in the early evening or late afternoon so that at least some of the games can be played at night under floodlights for international television broadcasts. Before the anticipated expansion to 10 clubs (split into two groups of five) in 2011, League games were held on a home-and-away system between all teams. However, this structure was amended so that some teams’ matches would only be played once.
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To increase possible television revenue, the top four teams compete in three playoff matchups, with one defeated club receiving a second chance to advance to the championship match. In the tournament’s play-off phase, the top four teams compete in a series of playoff matches that provide one team that lost its first-round match a second opportunity to proceed to the championship game.
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The top cricket players in the world, who had rarely made as much money as their contemporaries in other professional sports, became millionaires practically overnight with the debut of the IPL. In auctions held by the league, the owners of the IPL teams, which included major corporations, Bollywood movie stars, and media moguls, competed for the top players. The IPL’s biggest payroll at the outset was over $100 million, held by the well-funded Mumbai Indians. The services of Mahendra Dhoni were acquired by the Chennai Super Kings for $1.5 million in the first 2008 season auction. However, Gautam Gambhir, the starting batsman for the Indian national side, was acquired by the Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.4 million in the 2011 season auction.
A Detailed Overview of IPL
The Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Deccan Chargers (located in Hyderabad), Delhi Daredevils, Punjab XI Kings (Mohali), Kolkata Knight Riders, and Rajasthan Royals were the eight original franchises (Jaipur). Due to violations of the BCCI’s ownership regulation, two clubs, Rajasthan, and Punjab, were banned from the league in late 2010; however, they were eventually rehabilitated in time for the 2011 competition. The Kochi Tuskers of Kerala and the Pune Warriors of India are the two new teams that have entered the IPL for the 2011 season. The Kochi club had only been in existence for one season before the BCCI terminated its contract. The Sunrisers Hyderabad team took over the position of the Deccan Chargers in the IPL in 2013.
The first competition, which lasted 44 days in 2008, was won by the Rajasthan Royals, a team from a lesser market, under the leadership of the legendary Australian bowler Shane Warne. Following the IPL’s popularity, other cricketing nations raced to create their national T20 tournaments to share in the wealth.
In 2021, the Chennai Super Kings defeated the Kolkata Knight Riders to win the IPL, taking home 200 million Indian rupees in prize money. The league was put on hold in May 2021 because of player COVID infections, and the tournament was moved to the United Arab Emirates to be finished in September of that same year, with the championship game taking place at the Dubai International Stadium. The purple cap for the bowler with the most wickets went to Harshal Patel of the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Contrarily, Ruturaj Gaikwad was the youngest player to take home the orange cap for the most runs scored.
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