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The Indian Premier League, known as IPL and called Tata IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 cricket league held annually in India. [3] Founded by the BCCI in 2007, the league features ten state or city-based franchise teams. [4] It is the most popular and richest cricket league in the world and is held between March and May.
Icon player status was available only for the first season. Icon players' base prize was US$ 210,000. They were not included in the auction list, and they would receive 15% more than the highest-paid local players. Later, icon status was excluded in the next season and first category local players were categorized as Golden Category.
The auction fetched a total amount of US$ 723.59 million against the combined base price of US$ 400 million. Mumbai was the most expensive team, costing over US$ 111.9 million. The auction also led to controversy regarding the conflict of interest with then BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan holding a stake in the Chennai team.
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 2024 Pakistan Super League (referred to as HBL PSL 9 for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the Pakistan Super League. Established by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015 as a franchise Twenty20 cricket league, it was played between six teams in a double round robin and page playoff system .
The first two seasons included five teams based on the capital cities of Pakistan's provinces and the Federal capital. [8] [9] In its first season the PSL had a higher percentage of international players. The league uses a draft system for player recruitment similar to that used in many North American professional sports leagues and as opposed ...
Players pay a fixed amount and write their name somewhere in a 10 x 10 grid. After all 100 spaces are filled, the digits 0 to 9 are randomly assigned to rows and columns.
IPL teams were asked to submit their retention list by 4 January. For the first time in IPL history, the player retention event was broadcast live on Star Sports. [19] The IPL auction was held on 27 and 28 January at Bangalore a day after the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. [20] 169 players (104 Indians and 56 Overseas) were sold at auction.