Cricket News - IPL: Indian Premier League or Investment Premier League

After great pomp & show, the 44 day fiesta came to an end which was quite fabulous with the last ball end. The final saw a neck to neck contest between both the participating teams but the whole IPL saw a tremendous flow of money.

It is still very confusing that IPL stands for what? Cricket after IPL stands for what? Is it still a sport in the true sense or a business with the sport being superficial or mere window dressing? The very interesting thing is with the loosing team the franchise also is at loss but it recovers rather earn a surplus through other areas related to the game & of course the official betting is there to add up to the already hefty pockets.

Brief introduction of IPL Teams

Team - Bangalore Royal Challengers
Franchise - Vijay Mallya
Captain - Rahul Dravid
High Paid player - Rahul Dravid, annual salary US$1,035,000
Players - Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn (South Africa), Nathan Bracken, Cameron White (Australia), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies), Misbah-ul Haq (Pakistan), Abdur Razzak (Bangladesh), Ross Taylor (New Zealand), Anil Kumble, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Praveen Kumar, Sunil Joshi, B Akhil, Vinay Kumar, Devraj Patil, Bharat Chipli, KP Appanna, B Arun Kumar, Virat Kohli, Sreevats Goswami.
Total cost of Team - US$5,795,000


Team - Chennai Super Kings
Franchise - India Cements
Captain - Mahendra Singh Dhoni
High Paid player - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, $1.5m
Players - Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey (Australia), Stephen Fleming, Jacob Oram (New Zealand), Makhaya Ntini, Albie Morkel (South Africa), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Suresh Raina, S Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Napolean Einstein, Abhinav Mukund, Sudeep Tyagi, Rashwin, Viraj Kadbe, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Anirudha Srikkanth, P Amarnath, S Sresh Kumar, Arun Karthik and Shadab Jakati (India).
Total cost of Team - $6,225,000


Team - Deccan Chargers
Franchise - Deccan Chronicle
Captain - VVS Laxman
High Paid player - Andrew Symonds, $1.35m
Players - Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds (Australia), Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Chamara Silva (Sri Lanka), Hershelle Gibbs (South Africa), Scott Styris (New Zealand), Shahid Afridi (Pakistan), VVS Laxman, RP Singh, Rohit Sharma, Venugopala Rao, Pragyan Ojha, Halhadar Das, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Arjun Yadav, Paidikalva Vijay Kumar, Kalyan Krishna, Sarveesh Kumar, Sanjay Bangar (India).
Total cost of Team - $6,105,000


Team - Delhi Daredevils
Franchise - GMR Holdings
Captain - Virender Sehwag
High Paid player - Virender Sehwag, $833,750 (ICON PLAYER)
Players - Tillakaratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof (Sri Lanka), Daniel Vettori (New Zealand), Glenn McGrath, Brett Geeves (Australia), Mohammad Asif, Shoaib Malik (Pakistan), AB de Villiers (South Africa),Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Mayank Tehlan, Pradeep Sangwan, Yo Mahesh (India).
Total cost of Team - $6,372,500


Team - King's XI, Punjab
Franchise - Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia
Captain - Yuvraj Singh
High Paid player - Yuvraj Singh, $1,063,750 (ICON PLAYER)
Players - Simon Katich, Luke Pomersbach, Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh (Australia), Kyle Mills (New Zealand), Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies), Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Yuvraj Singh, Sree Santh, Piyush Chawla, Karan Goel, Uday Kaul, Tanmay Srivastava, Sahil Kukreja, Sunny Sohal, Irfan Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Pankaj Dharmani, Nitin Saini, Wilkin Mota (India).
Total cost of Team - $6,503,750


Team - Kolkata Knight Riders
Franchise - Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla & Jai Mehta
Captain - Sourav Ganguly
High Paid player - Sourav Ganguly, $1,092,500 (ICON PLAYER)
Players - David Hussey, Ricky Ponting (Australia), Salman Butt, Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan), Tatenda Taibu (Zimbabwe), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Akash Chopra, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohan Banerjee, Yashpal Singh, Debabrata Das, Sourav Ganguly, Wriddhiman Saha, Brendon McCullum, Ajit Agarkar, Iqbal Abdulla, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ishant Sharma, Shoaib Akhtar, Murali Kartik, Umar Gul, Siddarth Kaul, Ranadeb Bose, Sourashish Lahiri (India).
Total cost of Team - $6,222,500


Team - Mumbai Indians
Franchise - Reliance Industries
Captain - Sachin Tendulkar
High Paid player - Sachin Tendulkar, $1,121,250 (ICON PLAYER)
Players - Loots Bosman, Ashwell Prince, Shaun Pollock (South Africa), Dilhara Fernando, Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka), Luke Ronchi, Dominic Thornely (Australia), Sachin Tendulkar, Abhishek Nayar, Ajeenkya Rahane, Ankeet Chauhan, Ashish Nehra, Dhaval Kulkarni, Gaurav Dhiman, Harbhajan Singh, Manish Pandey, Musavir Khote, Pinal Shah, Rajesh Pawar, Robin Uthappa, Rohan Raje, Saurabh Tiwary, Sidharth Chitnis, Swapnil Singh, Vikrant Yelligeti, Yogesh Takawale (India).
Total cost of Team - $5,496,250


Team - Rajasthan Royals
Franchise - Emerging Media
Captain - Shane Warne
High Paid player - Mohammad Kaif, $675,000
Players - Graeme Smith, Morne Morkel, (South Africa), Justin Langer, Shane Watson, Shane Warne (Australia), Younis Khan, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir (Pakistan), Dimitri Mascarenhas (England), Mohammad Kaif, Anoop Revandkar, Taruwar Kohli, Niraj Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Siddharth Trivedi, Swapnil Asnodkar, Sumit Khatri, Munaf Patel, Pankaj Singh (India).
Total cost of Team - $3,610,000