What is this Idian Premier league

[hawk-boy]

dont understand it, is it going to stop players playing for there country
has any aussie signed up

details please

cherrs

[Admiral Afterworld]

The Indian Premier League, created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council, is a Twenty20 competition. It was announced after the BCCI declined permission to allow BCCI-contracted players to play in the Indian Cricket League.

The league is scheduled to start in April 2008 and will last for 44 days, involving 59 matches. The prize money for the league will be around Rs 13 crore (US $3million).

Each team would have a pool of 16 players, of whom 4 would be international and four from the Under-19 level or from the catchment area where the team is based.

The governing council consists of Sunil Gavaskar, MAK Pataudi and Ravi Shastri, Rajiv Shukla, Chirayu Amin, Inderjit Singh Bindra and Arun Jaitley.

Although it is going to be a franchise-system, some foreign players have already been contracted by the BCCI to play in the IPL.

[edit] Format

* 8 teams
* 16 players in a squad

Confirmed International level Players:

Australia

* Brett Lee
* Shane Warne
* Michael Clarke
* Andrew Symonds
* Jason Gillespie
* Mitchell Johnson
* Ricky Ponting
* Nathan Bracken
* Michael Hussey
* Matthew Hayden
* Simon Katich
* Brad Haddin
* Adam Gilchrist
* Justin Langer
* Glenn McGrath

India

* Rahul Dravid
* Sourav Ganguly
* Anil Kumble
* Sachin Tendulkar

Pakistan

* Shoaib Malik
* Shoaib Akhtar
* Muhammad Asif
* Shahid Afridi
* Younis Khan

South Africa

* Graeme Smith
* Ashwell Prince
* AB de Villiers
* Herschelle Gibbs
* Albie Morkel
* Shaun Pollock
* Loots Bosman
* Jacques Kallis
* Mark Boucher
* Makhaya Ntini

Sri Lanka

* Farveez Maharoof
* Lasith Malinga
* Muttiah Muralitharan
* Kumar Sangakkara
* Chaminda Vaas
* Nuwan Zoysa

New Zealand

* Stephen Fleming
* Scott Styris
* Daniel Vettori
* Jacob Oram
* Brendon McCullum

West Indies

* Shivnarine Chanderpaul
* Ramnaresh Sarwan
* Chris Gayle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_premier_league

It will be interesting to see if it gets broadcast here?

[TheBrownlowMan37]

Damn! I hope we get coverage of that on FTA, but i'm guessing it'll only be on FOX if anything:(

[stmookeyj]

Maybe even Setanta given that the Pakistan series in India was on there.

There was a list of sign on payments for some of the players in Yesterday's Brisbane Sunday Mail. IIRC McGrath got about $400K, Warne $500K, Langer $150K and most of the overseas players got around $300K.

[DIG]

How do they work out who goes in which team?

[stmookeyj]

There's a bidding war that will take place once the players have all been confirmed apparantly.

[Marklar_33]

Surely it will be televised, definately on PayTV anyway, means I might have to buy Setanta though

Bit concerned about the fact that each side has 4 internationals between 8 teams but 48 players have been confirmed...

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

Maybe even Setanta given that the Pakistan series in India was on there.

There was a list of sign on payments for some of the players in Yesterday's Brisbane Sunday Mail. IIRC McGrath got about $400K, Warne $500K, Langer $150K and most of the overseas players got around $300K.

Is Setana standard on pay?

Don't seem to get it here, had it for a while but then it left, i guess it might have had a free trial run, any ideas?

[PAFCsince1870]

Is Setana standard on pay?

Don't seem to get it here, had it for a while but then it left, i guess it might have had a free trial run, any ideas?

Nah, Setanta is paid for separately on Foxtel.

Bout 6 bucks a month I think?

[eddiesmith]

Surely it will be televised, definately on PayTV anyway, means I might have to buy Setanta though

Bit concerned about the fact that each side has 4 internationals between 8 teams but 48 players have been confirmed...
They wont all be playing each year, the Aussies are on tour next year during the tournament

[stmookeyj]

Yeah about 12 Aussies won't be available for the next 2 years, so the likes of Ponting will get a percentage of their sign on.


THE LIST THAT I HAVE OF BASE CONTRACTS...

AUSTRALIANS
Warne $500K
McGrath $400K
Langer $200K
Ponting $300K*
M.Clarke $300K*
Gilchrist $300K*
Symonds $250K*
Lee $250K*

SRI LANKANS
Maharoof $175K
Sangakkara $300K
M.Jayawardene $300K
Murali $300K
Jayasuriya $300K
Zoysa $150K
Fernando $200K
Vaas $225K
Malinga $200K

PAKISTANIS
Asif, Shoaib Akhtar, Afridi, Younis Khan ALL $275K

WINDIES
Chanderpaul $225K

KIWIS
Vettori $275K
Oram $250K
Styris $200K
B.McCullum $225K

SOUTH AFRICANS
Bosman $175K
de Villiers $225K
Morkel $250K
Muppet $275K
Gibbs $275K
Pollock $250K
Prince $200K
Ntini $225K
Boucher $225K
Kallis $250K

*: Contract yet to be signed

There are probably others that are not on the list, including Indian players.