2012 Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League 2012 was the fifth season of the discharged in the Twenty20 format competition for Indian cricket team and took place between April 4 and 27 May 2012. After the franchise Kochi Tuskers of Karela has been excluded for financial reasons, the season was contested by nine teams. Opening match and the final were held in MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. In the final game, the Kolkata Knight Riders were able to prevail against the Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets.
- 6.1 Group Stage
- 6.2 Playoffs 6.2.1 A Game
- 6.2.2 Game B
- 6.2.3 Game C
- 6.2.4 final
Participant
The nine participating franchises from India are:
- Chennai Super Kings
- Deccan Chargers
- Delhi Daredevils
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Kings XI Punjab
- Mumbai Indians
- Rajasthan Royals
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Pune Warriors
Venues
Players auction
On 4 February 2012, the player auction of the season took place. Here, 140 players were offered to the franchises that were then individually above a fixed minimum amount deliver their bids. In addition to players who wanted to be newly included in the IPL, the players of the excluded teams Kochi Tuskers of Karela have been offered. The bids were submitted in the context of parallel event of the season series the teams, so the players involved were rarely chosen. This concerned mainly English and West Indian national team. The highest bid received Ravindra Jadeja, who was bought with the maximum possible sum of two million U.S. dollars from both the Chennai Super Kings and the Deccan Chargers. In a tiebreaker then he went to Chennai. More bids over a million dollars there was Mahela Jayawardene, from the Delhi Daredevils for 1.4 million, and Vinar Kumar, of the Royal Challengers Bangalore for a million.
Format
The tournament is divided into two phases. In the preliminary round, each team competes against each other in a home and away game, resulting in 72 qualifying matches. There are no points for a win, two for a loss. If no result can be found, both teams get one point each. Event of a tie after the regular number of over the decision a Super Over is performed. The playoffs are played in the Page playoff system. This occurred in a first round in the preliminary round against the first - second and third preliminary round against the - fourth. The winner of the first game is for the finals directly qualified. The losers face off against the winner of the second game, the winner of which in turn qualified for the finals.