Crazysah Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 (edited) Indian Premier Leaguw 2008 The Indian Premier League (also known as the "DLF Indian Premier League"), is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The first edition of the Indian Premier League starts on 18 April 2008 The 2008 Indian Premier League season will be the debut season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2007. The season is scheduled to start on 18 April 2008 and the final match will be held on 1 June 2008. The league will consist of 8 teams. Each team will play two matches with every other team, held at Home venue and Away venue. The league matches will be followed by two semi-finals and a final match The Teams The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008.[12] While the total base price for auction was US$400 million, the auction fetched US$723.59 million.[13] The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were as follows.Franchise Owner(s) Price (USD) Mumbai Indians - Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Industries Limited $111.9 million Bangalore Royal Challengers - Dr. Vijay Mallya and UB group $111.6 million Hyderabad Deccan Chargers - Deccan Chronicle $107 million Chennai Super Kings - India Cements and N Srinivasan $91 million Delhi DareDevils - GMR Holdings $84 million Kings XI Punjab - Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur) $76 million Kolkata Knight Riders - Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla Mehta and Jai Mehta $75.09 million Rajasthan Royals - Emerging Media: (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram) $67 million The Indian Premier League is based on The Barclays Premier League Fixtures 18 April 2008 Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 April 2008 Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 April 2008 Delhi DareDevils vs Rajasthan Royals Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 April 2008 Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 April 2008 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Deccan Chargers Eden Gardens, Kolkata -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 April 2008 Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 April 2008 Deccan Chargers vs Delhi DareDevils Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 April 2008 Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 April 2008 Deccan Chargers vs Rajasthan Royals Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 April 2008 Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 April 2008 Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Rajasthan Royals M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 April 2008 Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 April 2008 Mumbai Indians vs Deccan Chargers DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 April 2008 Kings XI Punjab vs Delhi DareDevils Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 April 2008 Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Chennai Super Kings M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore And more... 44 Days of excitment begins today! GO DELHI DAREDEVILS! Edited April 19, 2008 by Crazysah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I don't knwo if any channels show this in the UK, the first match is today so i should be able to check when i get home. I've even set up a fantasy team on cricinfo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 on my way back from work I could see all the fireworks going off in the Chinnaswamy stadium. Bangalore RC FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 aww, wished south african team could play, man the indian team is kicking ass recently :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soumyasch Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Why the hell did Ganguly come out to open the innings? !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Because he's Ganguly... Good thing i've got McCullum in my team, 44 off 25 as i write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 some of the best battng ever from McCullum. looks like Bangalore is folding :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 18, 2008 Author Share Posted April 18, 2008 Brendon Mcullum! What a freakin innings! One of the best innings I have ever seen! 158 runs of 73 balls! kolkata Knight Riders ended with 222 for 3 in 20 overs! Bangalore on the other hand are 49 for 7! YIKES! What a bad run chase. I expected more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farstrider Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 aww, wished south african team could play, man the indian team is kicking ass recently :) Just so that you know, these teams are made up from players all over the world! Two South Africans are in the Bangalore Royal Challengers side! You are obviously not really a cricket man by the looks of it!!! You can follow what's going on at the Cricinfo site. @ Crazysah: Yes, what a brilliant knock by Brendon, 10 x 4 and 13 x6 (73 Balls) and a strike rate of 216.43!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Brendon Mcullum! What a freakin innings! One of the best innings I have ever seen! 158 runs of 73 balls!kolkata Knight Riders ended with 222 for 3 in 20 overs! Bangalore on the other hand are 49 for 7! YIKES! What a bad run chase. I expected more. i know. Bangalore was crappy in their chase. i expected a much closer finish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 I will be going for tonights match! It is Delhi Daredevils vs Rajasthan Royals! It is gonna be amazing! The first match today is at 5:00PM Local TIme... it is between KingsXIPunjab vs Chennai Super Kings... How many of you guys are actualyl going to be following the IPL closely? (Just so I know who to get into a heated discussion with!) And which team do you guys support? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 18 April 2008 Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore RESULT; KKR - 222/3 (20.0 ovrs) and BRC - 82/10 (15.1 ovrs) Brendon Mcullum (KKR) - 158 runs of 73 balls! Agarkar (KKR) - 3 for 25 in 4 ovrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuz Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 one thing i will say.... considering how much money they put into this and since its going world wide did they ever consider gettin better commentators......honeslty... and from last nights match bangalore had more of a test team....unlucky they had no steyn and why they picked noffke i have no idea..... and go mccullum wow....and consider this they had no gayle either...lol crasyah yeh i will b following it ...since its on free to air tv here...... gotta say kkr is where the money is at.... :p ps: ill look at the player lists and pick my team :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 19, 2008 Author Share Posted April 19, 2008 Ahh... BTW - It is free to watch online apparently without any ads at the official website!@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 So... Chennai Super Kings scored 240 with Mike Hussey scoring 116 of 53 balls! Kings XI Punjab replied with 207/4 in 20 overs and lost by 33 runs. I went for the Delhi DareDevils match and it was a bit one-sided. Rajasthan Royals finished with 129/8 in 20 overs and we got to 131/1 in 15.1 overs! Some good bowling and good fielding work done by the Delhi DareDevil players! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuz Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 dam camera work is so shoddy! go super kings and knight riders =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodygumdrops Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Nice effort by Mr. Cricket the other day. Good work Hussey! Does anyone know a decent website where we can watch cricket online? I know there is a site which has "live animation" but i would prefer the real thing..... unfortunately i can't hog the computer from my flatmates all day watching the cricket, so sometimes i'm going to need to watch it online. Thanks for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted April 22, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2008 Go Knight Riders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 Maybe you could try Sopcast or www.iplt20.com when the match starts... Tonight is Hyderabad Deccan Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils... I expect it to be a close match but Delhi DareDevils will win! Go Delhi DareDevils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodygumdrops Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Ok thanks for the tip. I'll give it a go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 23, 2008 Author Share Posted April 23, 2008 So... Sehwag decimated all! He scored 96 of 41 balls to steer Delhi Daredevils to their target of 123 in just 13 overs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 wow. Warne hits Symonds for 2 sixes in last over. phew what a match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuz Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 awesome match...... when will laxman realise symonds is not a death bowler >.>.... good ole warney lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazysah Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Great match last night too! Mumbai Indians managed their first win! Did anyone see the Harbhajan and Sreesanth slap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[deXter] Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 IPL's getting more interesting with the DC and MI opening their accounts and the Tasmans packing their bags, there might be a shift in power equations :) Only wish RC would pick up their pace. The only thing that's good about them are the cheerleaders ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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