History
[edit]First season
The inaugural season of the tournament started on 18 April 2008 and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. The final was played in DY Patil Stadium,
Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Every team played each other both at home and away in a
round robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final.
Rajasthan Royals defeated
Chennai Super Kings in a last ball thriller and emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.
[edit]Second season
The 2009 season coincided with the
General Elections in
India. Owing to concerns regarding players' security, the venue was shifted to
South Africa. The format of the tournament remained same as the inaugural one.
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers, who finished last in the first season,were big underdogs, but came out as eventual winners defeating the
Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final. Hyderabad Deccan set a target of 144 with the help of Gibbs(53) and defended it.
[edit]Third season
[edit]Fourth season
Chennai Super Kings are the most successful team in the tournament winning the championship twice and qualifying for the top four every time.
On 21 March 2010, it was announced in Chennai that two new teams from
Puneand
Kochi will be added to the IPL for the fourth season. However, the bid around the Kochi franchisee turned controversial resulting in the resignation of minister,
Shashi Tharoor from the Central Government and investigations by various departments of the Government of India into the financial dealings of IPL and the other existing franchisees. Later,
Lalit Modi was also removed from IPL chairmanship by BCCI. On 5 December 2010, it was confirmed that Kochi will take part in the fourth season of IPL.
[11]The addition of teams representing Pune and Kochi was to have increased the number of franchises from 8 to 10. The BCCI originally considered extending the tournament format used in previous season to ten teams, which would increase the number of matches from 60 to 94. Instead, the round-robin stage of the tournament was to have been replaced by a group stage with two groups of five, limiting the number of matches to 74.
[12] But this format was replaced by another one in which each team would play 5 other teams in a two-way round robin format and there would be 2 teams against whom they would play only at home and remaining 2 teams against which they would play only away matches.Thus each team plays 14 matches.Top four teams would qualify for the semi-finals.
In October 2010, the Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab had their franchises terminated for breaching ownership rules. The new Kochi franchise was also issued a warning to resolve all their ownership disputes.
[13] Two months later both teams were finally allowed to take part in the 2011 edition after a court ruling.
[14]Chennai Super Kings won their second consecutive IPL title after defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs in the fourth season of IPL.
[15] CSK had beaten RCB in the playoffs too while RCB defeated
Mumbai Indians to reach the final. This is the first time a franchise has won two IPL titles, had four consecutive semi-final visits, come to the finals three times, and successfully defended their title. The top four teams namely CSK, RCB, KKR and MI have also qualified for the
Champions League. Mumbai Indians are the current Champions League Twenty20 champions.
[edit]Fifth season
The fifth season this time with 9 teams is set to start on 4 April 2012 in mumbai, for which the players auction was held on 4 February 2012 in
Bangalore. The season saw IPL authority increasing the number of players in each squad to 33 from the previous limit of 30 and also increased the salary cap by $0 million.The first match between champions league 20-20 winners Mumbai Indians and the defending champion Chennai Super Kings was won by Mumbai Indians by eight wickets. Man of the match Richard Levi scored a 35 ball 50 with 6 4s and 3 6s.
Celebrities performing at the 5th IPL opening ceremony at
Chennai[edit]IPL Trophy
[edit]2008-2010
The diamond-encrusted trophy of
DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) Cricket was designed by Orra brand, owned by Antwerp-based Rosy Blue Group. It comprises a player in a gold leafing. He is shown holding a bat in his hand, next to a map of India. On the map, the names of all the IPL teams have been engraved by rubies. It took a team of as many as 14 craftsmen to make the trophy. Every year, the winners of the IPL T20 tournament are presented with a replica of this trophy, along with the prize money.
[edit]2011-2013
A new trophy was designed for
IPL 4 in view of the two new teams which are now in the fray. It has been changed to a large cup instead of a map of India.
[edit]League organization
[edit]Franchises
The winning
bidders for the eight
franchises were announced on 24 January 2008.
[16] While the total base price for auction was US $400 million, the auction fetched US $723.59 million.
[17]On 21 March 2010,
Pune and
Kochi were unveiled as the two new franchises for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. The base price was $225 million. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was bought by Rendezvous Sports World Limited for $333.3 million. The process was to have been completed on March 7 but was postponed by two weeks after many bidders and the
BCCI objected to stiff financial clauses.
[18] The second franchise auction fetched total $703 million.
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