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The 2009 Indian Premier League final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match played between the Deccan Chargers and the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 24 May 2009 at the New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg to determine the winner of the 2009 Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India.
The inaugural IPL season was won by Rajasthan Royals. [10] As of 2024, there have been seventeen seasons of the IPL tournament. [11] [12] Up until 2021, the IPL tournament involved each team playing every other team twice in a home-and-away, double round-robin format. [13] [14] From 2022, the ten teams were divided into two groups of five. A ...
The 2009 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 2 or the 2009 IPL, was the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament was hosted by South Africa and was played between 18 [1] April and 24 May 2009. [2]
The inaugural season of the IPL was held in 2008, and the tournament has been held annually in India [a] ever since. [1] Currently, ten teams compete for the championship. [3] Since the league's inception, seven teams have won the title, with the Mumbai Indians (MI) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) both securing five titles each.
The Orange Cap, currently known as the Aramco Orange Cap for sponsorship reasons, [1] is presented to the leading run scorer in the Indian Premier League (IPL). [2] [3] It was introduced on 25 April 2008, a week after the start of the inaugural season of the IPL. The batsman with most runs in the tournament during the course of the season would ...
They beat the Delhi Daredevils in the semi-final to reach the Final. [5] They defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Final by six runs to win their maiden IPL trophy and qualify for the 2009 Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20). [6] [7] They lost both their matches in the group stage of the CLT20 and failed to advance to the league stage. [8]
The semi-final loss meant Delhi did not contest the final of the 2009 IPL season, despite having the best record in the league stages. However, Delhi managed to qualify for the now-defunct 2009 Champions League Twenty20 as a result of their performance in the group stage. [citation needed]
According to the BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹1,150 crore (US$140 million) to India's GDP. [17] In December 2022, the IPL achieved a valuation of US$10.9 billion, becoming a decacorn and registering a 75% growth in dollar terms since 2020 when it was valued at $6.2 billion, according to a report by the consulting firm D and P ...