Indian Premier League 2009 Teams

	Kevin Pietersen Abhmanyu Mithun Anil Kumble Balachandra Akhil Bharat Chipli Bhuvneshwar Kumar Cameron White Dale Steyn Devraj Patil Dillon du Preez Gaurav Dhiman Ishank Jaggi Jacques Kallis Jagadeesh Arun Kumar Jesse Ryder	Jitendra Patil Karan Sharma Kedar Jadhav Kotarangada Appanna Manish Pandey Mark Boucher Muralidharen Gautam Nathan Bracken Pankaj Singh Praveen Kumar R. Suteesh Rahul Dravid Rajesh Bishnoi Raju Bhatkal Robin Uthappa	Roelof van der Merwe Rohit Sabharwal Ross Taylor Saurabh Bandekar Sreesanth Aravind Srivastava Goswami Sunil Joshi Tinu Yohannan Udit Patel Vinay Kumar Virat Kohli Wasim Jaffer Ray Jennings (SA) (Coach)
	Sourav Ganguly Aakash Chopra Ajantha Mendis Ajit Agarkar Angelo Mathews Anureet Singh Arindam Ghosh Ashoke Dinda Brad Hodge	Brendan McCullum Cheteshwar Pujara Chris Gayle David Hussey Ishant Sharma Laxmi Ratan Shukla Mark Cameron Mashrafe Mortaza Moises Henriques	Murali Kartik Sanjay Bangar Shoaib Sheikh Sourav Sarkar Sunny Singh Wriddhiman Saha Yashpal Singh John Buchanan (AUS) (Coach)
	Yuvraj Singh Ajitesh Argal Amanpreet Singh Brett Lee Burt Cockley Irfan Pathan James Hopes Karan Goel Kumar Sangakkara Luke Pomersbach	Mahela Jayawardene Piyush Chawla Ramesh Powar Ranadeb Bose Ravi Bopara Ravikant shukla Ryan Ninan Sahil Kukreja Shaun Marsh Simon Katich	Sunny Sohal Tanmay Srivastava Taruwar Kohli Uday Kaul Vikramjeet Malik VRV Singh Wilkin Mota Yash Gandhi Yusuf Abdullah Tom Moody (AUS) (Coach)
	MS Dhoni Abhinav Mukund Albie Morkel Andrew Flintoff Anirudha Srikkanth Arun Karthik George Bailey Jacob Oram Joginder Sharma Lakshmipathy Balaji	Makhaya Ntini Manpreet Gony Matthew Hayden Murali Vijay Muttiah Muralitharan Napoleon Einstein Palani Amarnath Parthiv Patel Ravichandran Ashwin S Vidyut	Shadab Jakati Stephen Fleming Subramaniam Badrinath Sudeep Tyagi Suresh Kumar Suresh Raina Thilan Thushara Viraj Vilas Kadbe Stephen Fleming (NZ) (Coach)
	Virender Sehwag Aavishkar Salvi AB de Villiers Amit Mishra Andrew McDonald Ashish Nehra Daniel Vettori David Warner Dinesh Karthik	Dirk Nannes Farveez Maharoof Gautam Gambhir Glenn McGrath Manoj Tiwary Mithun Manhas Owais Shah Paul Collingwood Pradeep Sangwan	Rajat Bhatia Tejashwi Yadav Tillakaratne Dilshan Umesh Yadav Yo Mahesh Yogesh Nagar Greg Shipperd (AUS) (Coach)
	Shane Warne Abhishek Raut Ahad Malek Amit Singh Anup Revandkar Ashraf Makda Atul Sharma Dimitri Mascarenhas Dinesh Salunke Gajendra Singh Graeme Smith Kamran Akmal Lee Carseldine	Mahesh Rawat Mohammad Arif Mohammad Kaif Morne Morkel Munaf Patel Naman Ojha Niraj Patel Paras Dogra Paul Valthaty Pratmesh Salunke Pushkarraj Chavan Raiphi Gomez Ravindra Jadeja	Robert Quiney Shane Harwood Shane Watson Shaun Tait Siddharth Chitnis Siddharth Trivedi Srideep Mangela Swapnil Asnodkar Tyron Henderson Yusuf Pathan Shane Warne (AUS) (Coach)
	Sachin Tendulkar Abhishek Nayar Ajinkya Rahane Chetnya Nanda Dhawal Kulkarni Dilhara Fernando Dwayne Bravo Graham Napier Harbhajan Singh	Jaydev Shah Jean-Paul Duminy Jude Singh Kyle Mills Lasith Malinga Luke Ronchi Mohammad Ashraful Pinal Shah Raheel Shaikh	Rohan Raje Ryan McLaren Sanath Jayasuriya Saurabh Tiwary Shikhar Dhawan Yogesh Takawale Zaheer Khan Shaun Pollock(Mentor) (Coach)
	Adam Gilchrist Abhinav Kumar Andrew Symonds Arjun Yadav Chamara Silva Chaminda Vaas Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna Dwaraka Ravi Teja Dwayne Smith Fidel Edwards	Halhadar Das Harmeet Singh Herschelle Gibbs Jas Karandeep Singh Manvinder Bisla Nuwan Zoysa Paidikalva Vijaykumar Pragyan Ojha Rohit Sharma Rudra Pratap Singh	Ryan Harris Sarvesh Kumar Scott Styris Shoaib Ahmed Tirumalsetti Suman Venugopal Rao VVS Laxman Darren Lehman (AUS) (Coach)

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Indian Premier League

What is the Indian Premier League?

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a franchise-based Twenty20 competition organised by the BCCI, and backed by the ICC. It features the world's best cricketers playing - their affiliation decided by open auction - for eight city-based franchises, owned by a host of businessmen and celebrity consortiums. The first season was from April-June 2008; the second season will be held between April 18 and May 24 2009 in South Africa, after organisers decided to move the tournament out of India for the year, as it clashed with parliamentary elections in the country.

Why has the IPL generated such a buzz?

Two main reasons why. One the football-club concept of the IPL, which is unlike anything cricket has known. The best players from across the world playing not according to nationality but according to market forces. Second, the sheer financial scale of the IPL is unprecedented at this level of cricket. The BCCI made close to US$ 1.75 billion solely from the sale of TV rights ($908 million), promotion ($108 million) and franchises (approximately $700 million). There are now ten players on contracts worth more than $1 million annually. It's an entire cricket economy - and one unaffected by recession - out there. The total prize money for the first edition of the tournament was around US$3 million.

Who are the top cricketers involved?

Almost everyone who's anyone in world cricket. The first season had Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Shoaib Akhtar, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sachin Tendulkar and Matthew Hayden participating. England went largely unrepresented but their two biggest stars, Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, will play in the second season after they were each bought for US$1.55 million by Bangalore Royal Challengers and Chennai Super Kings respectively. Pakistan's players will not be involved in Season 2, nor will Michael Clarke or Ricky Ponting, who have opted to focus on regular cricket.

Who are the franchise owners - celebrities and others?

Mukesh Ambani, the Reliance Industries chairman, acquired the Mumbai franchise for $111.9 million over a 10-year period; beer and airline baron Vijay Mallya, who also owns a Formula 1 team, won the Bangalore franchise for $111.6 million; Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment won the Kolkata franchise for $75 million; the biggest surprise was the Chandigarh franchise, which went to Preity Zinta, another Bollywood star, and Ness Wadia, together with two other industrialists, for $75 million.

The teams are: Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals (Jaipur), Bangalore Royal Challengers, Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers (Hyderabad) and Kings XI Punjab (Mohali).

How are the players paired with teams?

The first player auction, on February 20 2008, had franchises bid for a maximum of eight international players from a pool of 89. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag were given 'icon' status by the BCCI - they represented the city in which they are based. A similar, truncated process was followed in 2009, with 17 players picked.

How did the player auctions pan out?

India's ODI captain Dhoni and Australia allrounder Andrew Symonds were the big buys at the first auction in Mumbai, with the Chennai franchise buying Dhoni for US$1.5 million and Hyderabad bidding successfully for Symonds at US$1.3 million. India's young stars Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma and Manoj Tiwary together fetched nearly US$3 million. The auction for the second season was on a much smaller scale, with 17 players bought by the various franchises. Pietersen and Flintoff were the most popular buys, and among the relatively newer faces, JP Duminy was snapped up for US$950,000 by Mumbai Indians, and Tyron Henderson by Rajasthan Royals for US$650,000. The surprise package was Mashrafe Mortaza, who was bought for a whopping US$600,000 by Kolkata Knight Riders.

Who are the IPL coaches?

The IPL has lured some of the top names in the business; the first season had three Australians, one South African and one New Zealander as coaches. Kolkata roped in former Australia coach John Buchanan and Mohali signed up former Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody, while Delhi recruited Victoria coach Greg Shipperd. Former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe was the big surprise in Bangalore - he was replaced by South Africa's Ray Jennings for the second season - and Chennai bagged former South Africa captain Kepler Wessels. Hyderabad had India's fielding coach Robin Singh in 2008 and will have Darren Lehmann in 2009, while Jaipur have Shane Warne as captain and coach. Mumbai Indians have named Shaun Pollock as the team's mentor-cum-advisor and Pravin Amre as assistant coach.

Whose idea is the IPL?

The IPL is the brainchild of Lalit Modi, the vice-president of the BCCI, and is modeled along the lines of club football in Europe, specifically the English Premier League. Though there is a school of thought that the idea came about in the 1990s, the announcement that such a tournament would happen, and which it would be a precursor to Twenty20 Champions League, cricket's version of the European Champions League, came only after Subhash Chandra, the owner of Zee Televison said, in April 2007 - soon after India's exit from the World Cup - that he was intending to start an unofficial tournament called the Indian Cricket League, fuelling speculation that is was a reactive idea rather than a proactive one.

How different are the IPL and ICL to each other?

The IPL is an official sanctioned Twenty20 tournament, and unlike the ICL, which is not recognised by any of the national boards or the ICC, it will have a better status, international reach, players, and the requisite infrastructure by default. Since the IPL is sanctioned by the ICC, players don't have the danger of bringing their international/first-class careers to a halt - as is the case with the ICL - whose players have been banned by the various boards. Another major difference is with regard to franchises - the ownership of the team rests with the individual owners and not one single entity.

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