Indian Premier League
The Indian Premier League ( भारतीय प्रीमियर लीग ) is a competition for Indian cricket teams. He is the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the Indian Cricket Association, held, and the game form is the Twenty20 Cricket. Since the Erstaustragung 2008, three more editions were held, with the IPL 2009 season took place for safety in South Africa. The sixth season was held between April 3 and May 26, 2013.
- 3.1 TV rights
- 3.2 founding
- 3.3 revenue
- 6.1 World-wide interest
- 6.2 Press regulation
Franchises
At the IPL currently take nine franchises in part:
- Bangalore Royal Challengers (since 2008)
- Chennai Super Kings (since 2008)
- Delhi DareDevils (since 2008)
- Kolkata Knight Riders ( since 2008)
- Kings XI Punjab (since 2008)
- Mumbai Indians (since 2008)
- Rajasthan Royals (since 2008)
- Pune Warriors ( since 2011 )
- Sunrisers Hyderbad (since 2012)
Resolved franchises:
- Deccan Chargers (since 2008-2012)
- Kochi Tuskers Kerala (2011)
History
Season 2008
The first season began on 18 April 2008 with the play of Kolkata Knight Riders at the Royal Challengers Bangalore. 58 Of the 59 scheduled games could be played, one fell victim to rain. The first final was held on 1 June 2008, inaugurated in March of the year 55,000 spectators DY Patil Stadium -making of Navi Mumbai, a part of the urban agglomeration of Mumbai, between the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings instead. Here, the Rajasthan Royals prevailed with the last ball of the game.
Season 2009
Due to the elections in India, the entire season was relocated to South Africa. The Games were held in eight cities and were sold out in no time. In the final in Johannesburg, the Deccan Chargers were able to prevail against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Season 2010
The third season was again held in India. However, the previous year champion, the Deccan Chargers, its home games do not perform in the planned stadium in Hyderabad, because it could not be guaranteed in the conflict over the creation of the new state of Telangana, security. The team was then the games from several other stadiums. In the final, the Chennai Super Kings against Mumbai Indians could prevail, who could not use their home court advantage in Navi Mumbai.
Season 2011
In March 2010 it was announced that there will be two new teams from the 2011 edition. These should be located in Pune and Kochi. When team from Kochi but there were still numerous problems, so that its participation was finally confirmed in December 2010 .. thus the Kochi Tuskers had been added and the Pune Warriors Karela. To the resulting increase in the number of group games to keep in check the first round mode has been modified. In the final, the Chennai Super Kings against Royal Challengers Bangalore prevailed with 58 runs.
Season 2012
After the Kochi Tuskers Karela were excluded for financial reasons, the season took place with nine franchises. In the preliminary round, each team played again two times against each other. In this, the Delhi Daredevils were able to prevail. However, in the qualifiers for the finals they lost both against Chennai Super Kings, as well as the Kolkata Knight Riders and thus eliminated from. In the final Kolkata sat down with five wickets against Chennai by and so prevented the third consecutive victory of the south Indian team.
Season 2013
Before the start of the season, the financially troubled franchise of the Deccan Chargers was replaced by the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Financial
TV rights
Funding for the competition will be done primarily through television rights. On 15 January 2008, a consortium consisting of Sony Entertainment Television and the World Sport Group has secured the global broadcasting rights to the IPL. The contract case has a term of ten years and secures the IPL total of 1.026 billion U.S. dollars. 72 % of these proceeds will go directly to the deductible, 20 % remain with IPL and 8% are exposed as prize money.
Foundation
The Indian Premier League started with the auction of licenses for franchises. In this case, the following teams were able to achieve:
- Bangalore Royal Challengers ( bought for $ 111.6 million )
- Chennai Super Kings (91 million dollars)
- Delhi DareDevils (84 million dollars)
- Deccan Chargers (107 million dollars)
- Kolkata Knight Riders ( $ 75.1 million )
- Kings XI Punjab (76 million dollars)
- Mumbai Indians ( $ 111.9 million )
- Rajasthan Royals ( $ 67 million )
Revenue
The Indian government took in its first year about 17 million U.S. dollars in taxes by the IPL a
The franchises all had planned in their first season in a loss because you had to make large initial investments. Due to the surprising success, it is already now two teams managed to get into the profit zone. More detailed information can be found in the table:
- All figures are in Indian rupees crores (1 crore = 10 million rupees = about 195 600 U.S. dollars in 2008).
Player
The players will be auctioned prior to each season of the individual franchises. Before the first season a special auction was held, in which virtually all of the best and most famous cricket players in the world were available. The highest offer was made it to the Indian Mahendra Singh Dhoni with 1.5 million U.S. dollars from the franchise from Chennai. The Australian Andrew Symonds followed in the auction with 1.35 million U.S. dollars of Rajasthan and thus was the only foreigner among the six players who were bought for more than 1 million U.S. dollars for the duration of the competition. Another special auction was carried out in 2011, so that the two new franchises, Pune and Kochi, could provide them with players.
Game Mode
In the early years, when the league consisted of eight teams, were all deductible once each Away and home against each other. The completion of four best teams then play in the semi-finals and finals the winners from. With the expansion to ten teams and the game mode has been modified. So each team only comes into play against five opponents return game, while the other three teams, only one game is played. Also the playoff system was changed, now determined in a sequence of four games the winner of the best four teams preliminary round.
Public perception
Worldwide interest
The Indian Premier League was directly in their first season to one of the most popular sporting events in India. But in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the IPL was surprising win many fans. Even in the Caribbean, the IPL was well received.
In South Africa, however, the IPL was in direct competition to the English Premier League football and the local rugby competitions, so that the interest been rather low. In England, the interest in the IPL was not yet very mature, this situation could change for the 2009 season, there are now also English players are allowed to participate, something that has been prohibited from English Association.
Hardly significant attention was paid to the IPL, however, in Australia and New Zealand, which is mainly due to the time difference, through which the games are there transferred in the middle of the night.
Press regulation
The organizers tried to regulate the reporting and use of images in detail. Cricinfo Cricket365 and were completely excluded from coverage and may, for example, not be supplied with pictures. On 18 April 2008, therefore, declared major international news agencies such as AFP and Reuters explained, not over the Indian Premier League to report in 2008. The same was repeated in 2009 and 2010, but was canceled after each IPL concessions from the Boycott.