Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League completely changed the way cricket was played in India and the tournament opened its doors to the entertainment industry as well. Just one year before the tournament started, India had won the 2007 T20 World Cup, after which every cricket lover of India became crazy about T20 cricket. In order to cash in on the craze of Indian cricket lovers, it is planned to organize an IPL (Indian Premier League) tournament in a new way. The format of this tournament was similar to that of the English Premier League and the National Basketball League of America (NBA). The entire mind behind this first IPL tournament was Lalit Modi, who became the commissioner of the IPL. This tournament was launched in the year 2008

The tournament was started on the basis of a franchise based system. These franchises were put up for auction. The highest bidder in this auction was given the right to buy the team. The total number of teams in the tournament was 8, which were named after different cities of the country. The auction for these teams began on January 24, 2008, and the auction's base amount was set at $ 400 million. The auction ended at $ 729.59 million. The Mumbai franchise was bought by Mukesh Ambani's company Reliance Industries Limited. This franchise was the most expensive franchise of this season. Mukesh Ambani spent $ 111.9 million for it. The other expensive team was from Bangalore, which was bought by Vijay Mallya's United Breweries for $ 111.6 million. Media House Deccan Chronicle bought the Hyderabad franchise by spending $ 107 million. At the same time, Indian Cements bought the Chennai franchise for $ 91 million. Bollywood too knocked on the team to buy and the two Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla together bought the Kolkata franchise for $ 75.06 million. Preity Zinta along with Ness Wadia bought the Mohali team for $ 76 million. Infrastructure development group GMR bought the Delhi franchise for $ 84 million. The Jaipur franchise was then bought by Fraser Castilon's CEO Manoj Badale and Latalan Murdoch, along with other investors, for $ 67 million.

There were 8 teams in the first season of IPL. It was necessary to have 16 players in each team. The tournament lasted 44 days in which 59 matches were played.

IPL teams for the first edition:

1. Delhi team captain Icon player Virender Sehwag has been appointed and former Australia first-class cricketer Shiford has been appointed as coach.

2. Former Australian cricketer Shane Warne has been appointed as the coach and captain of the Rajasthan team.

3. Chennai team captain Icon player Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been appointed and Kepler Vessel has been appointed as coach.

4. Kolkata team captain Icon player Sourav Ganguly was appointed while John Buchanan was appointed as coach.

5. Icon player VVS Laxman was made the captain of the Deccan Charges team and Robin Singh was made the coach.

6. Mumbai team captain Icon player Sachin Tendulkar was appointed and Lalchand Rajput was made the coach.

7. Icon player Rahul Dravid was made the captain of the Bangalore team and coach Venkatesh Prasad was made.

8. Punjab team captain Icon player Yuvraj Singh was made and coach Tom Moody was made.

The first match of IPL was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders on April 04, 2008 at M Chennaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. In the very first match of the IPL, fours and sixes were seen when Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Brendon McCullum smashed 158 runs in 73 balls. In this way KKR scored 222/3 for 3 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, RCB were all out for 82 runs in 15.1 overs.

In this IPL tournament, Shane Warne proved that he is the best captain when he led his team to the final. Warne's team faced Chennai Super Kings in the final. In this match played on 1 June 2008, Chennai batting first scored 163/5 in 20 overs. Yusuf Pathan of Rajasthan team performed well in this match with both bat-balls and took three wickets.

Showing his good hand in batting, he scored 56 runs off 39 balls and he was out on a direct throw from Suresh Raina. Rajasthan eventually won on the last ball of the match. Laxmipathy Balaji scored the first hat-trick in this tournament. He scored this hat-trick by dismissing Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla and VRV Singh in the match against Punjab. In this way, he took 5 wickets for 24 runs in the match and Chennai defeated Punjab by 18 runs. Amit Mishra took his hat-trick against Hyderabad in the same season playing for Delhi. When he hit Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha and R.P. in his three consecutive balls. Singh was dismissed. In this way, the Delhi team defeated Hyderabad by 12 runs. Makhaya Antini was the only non-Indian player to score a hat-trick in this tournament. He played for Chennai by dismissing Kolkata's Sourav Ganguly, Debabrata Das and David Hussey in three consecutive balls. Chennai won this match played at Eden Gardens by 3 runs based on Duckworth Lewis rule.

Brief description of the IPL: The way in which the IPL was inaugurated directly indicated that the cricket game is no longer the same. Business tycoon, presence of Bollywood glamor in IPL has revolutionized the field of sports

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