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Indian Premier League
The DLF Indian Premier League or IPL is a Twenty20 Cricket competition, formed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and approved by International Cricket Council (ICC). Headed by Lalit Modi, the IPL would include eight city teams - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Jaipur, Chennai, Chandigarh and Hyderabad with each team going head on with rest of the seven teams throughout the tournament that would be held during April-May 2008. The first match has been scheduled to be played on 18th April and the final on June 1st. In the IPL there are five Icon Players namely : Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Virendera Sehwag. Under IPL no one can bid for Icon Players and these players would get 15% more amount then the next highest priced player within the franchise. The bidding of players spread through eight rounds and each franchisee was restricted to spend only Rs. 20 cr. The selling of teams to franchiees made BCCI to bag a whopping amount of Rs. 2,872 cr. With the highest amount of Rs. 6.0 cr. Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the most expensive player in the bidding and went into the franchise of Chennai, sponsored by India Cements. After that Andrew Symonds (Australia) and Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) were picked up by Hyderabad and Mumbai with Rs. 5.4 cr & Rs. 3.9 cr. respectively. The complete official list of Indian Premier League team franchise and their owners is as following :
The current Standings of Indian Premier League Teams and their points are as follows:
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IPL RECORD
Fastest Hundred scored by Adam Ghilchrist in 42 balls against Mumbai Indians
Most Catches(4) in an innings taken by Sachin Tendulkar against Knight Riders
Deccan Chargers is the only team who has lost all the matches played at Home
Highest Individual score is 148 (n.o) scored by Bradin Mccullum of Knight riders
Most Runs 616 by Shaun Marsh of KIng X1 Punjab in 11 Matches
Most Wickets 22 by Sohail Tanveer of Rajasthan Royals
Most Sixes 31 by Sanath Jaisurya of Mumbai Indians in 14 matches
Most Times Man of The Match 5 times Shaun Marsh of King X1 Punjab followed by Shane watson 4 times
First Hatrick was taken by Laxmipati balaji of Chennai Super Kings against King X1 Punjab.He took 5 wickets for 25
Second Hatrick was taken by Amit Mishra of Dare Devils against Deccan Chargers
Third Hatrick was taken by Mkhaya Ntini against Knight Riders.He took one wicket on the last ball of over and two wickets in first two ball of 17th over
First century was struck by Bradin Mccullum of Knight Riders against Royal Challengers.He scored 158(n.o.) runs in 78 balls and struck 10 fours and 13 sixes.This is also the highest Twenty Twenty Score
Highest team total is 240 for 5 made by Chennai Super Kings against King X1 Punjab
Lowest Team Total is 67 made by Knight Riders against Mumbai Indians
100th six of the league struck by Robin Utthapa
300th six of the league struck by Manpreet Goni
Most wickets taken by Sohail Tanveer in an innings i.e. 6 wickets for 14 runs against Chennai Super Kings
Lowest margin (by Runs) King X1 won by 1 runs against Mumbai Indians Highest Margin (by Runs) Knight Riders won by 140 runs against Royal Challengers
Most Economical Bowling bowled by Shaun Pollock against Chennai Super Kings His bowling figure is . 4-1-9-1
Fastest Fifty scored by Yusuf Pathan in 21 balls against Deccan Chargers