IPL- The Stair of wealth for BCCI

The IPL 2010 has not yet started but all the matches schedule in India, it can be said that it is going to be a huge success. It’s like a Golden Goose for BCCI. It brought up a lot of money into their Treasure.
To start with ESD has bagged the theatrical rights of the Indian Premier League matches for the next 10 years which cost them Rs 330 crore.
Initially the craze started when the top Industrialists like Mukesh Ambani and Celebrities like Shah Rukh khan participated in the auction and successfully won the bids for owning the franchises in the Indian Premier League. The highest amount in this auction was for the Mumbai team. This team was successfully bid for an astonishing amount of $111.9 million by Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. The next highest was for the Bangalore team which was successfully bid for $111.6 million by the liquor king Vijay Malaya.
Then the craze got stimulated during the auction conducted for the players. All theIndian Premier League teams participated in this auction. The highest amount in this bid was $1.5 million for Indian Team captain MS Dhoni.
The TV rights for the Indian premier League were gone for an astonishing amount of $1 billion. These rights were successfully bid by the Sony and World Sport group for the next ten years.
The Umpiring rights for the Indian premier League were gone for $106 million. These rights were bought by the Kingfisher Airlines group. The Kingfisher people will be having their brand mark on the umpire costumes and also on the third umpire decision.
BCCI grabbed all the above money. They are using this money in a right way. The total prize money for the Indian Premier League is Rs. 12 crore. The winner in the final will get Rs.4.8 crore and the runner up will get Rs.2.8 crore. The teams which got till semifinals will get 1.2 crore.
This huge amount of money was never seen in the history of cricket. The prize money announced was three times the prize money of a cricket world cup. This is the main reason why the cricketers from all around the world are trying to make their place in the Indian Premier League.

Two new teams will be introduced in March

The winning bids for the two new IPL franchises which will join the league in 2011 will be announced on Monday, March 8th just before the start of IPL 3.0.

The announcement was made by IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Twitter, he also revealed that the cities in contention to host franchises were Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Kanpur, Dharamsala, Indore, Cuttack, Gwalior and Visakapatnam.

Rajkot, Pune, Vadodara and Kochi are also locations the IPL would consider but the bids would be dependent on the construction of new cricket stadiums.

"Tenders can be collected from the Board of Control for Cricket in India office or the IPL office from February 21," Modi said. "The bids will be opened on March 8 in Mumbai."

"Details of the bidding process for two new teams will be in the tender document" he added.

The base rate for the new franchises have been at $215 million but the high price hasn't put of bidders with Modi announcing a few weeks ago that he has received over 40 requests from interested parties.

Can Kumble's dance of destruction do the job?

It was hardly a surprise when Anil Kumble engineered a remarkable turnaround in the fortunes of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the second edition of the Indian Premier League. His insatiable hunger for victory has for long been his hallmark.

But touching the tape behind Deccan Chargers might have really hurt him, as the leg-spinner had never settled for anything less than the best during his 19 years of international cricket. Now, the veteran leggie will be eager to lay his hands on the glittering IPL trophy when the third edition starts. That Kumble will be back on familiar Indian surfaces will make him doubly dangerous. The Bangalorean does not need any tutoring on how to bowl on sub-continental pitches; there are a train of images that comes to mind while thinking of Kumble's dance of destruction.

Frontrunners in that long list are: the famous Perfect 10 against Pakistan, six for 12 against the West Indies in the Hero Cup final and then the vivid pictures of him teasing and tormenting English batsmen, especially Richard Blakey, in the 1993 series.

After all those tall deeds, there still might have been some doubts about him coping with the frenetic pace Twenty20. But on that magical night of April 18 2009 in Cape Town, all the scepticism was erased. The leggie bowled a wonderful spell (3.1-1-5-5) to derail the then defending champions Rajasthan Royals. After that Kumble never looked back, finishing as the second highest-wicket taker behind Deccan Chargers' Rudra Pratap Singh.

Jacques Kallis was widely tipped to take over RCB captaincy once Kevin Pietersen returned to England for the series against the West Indies, but Kumble pipped the South African for the post, and it proved to be the right move for the team. The 39-year old former Indian captian cajoled, pepped up and pushed his team-mates to give their best in the remaining matches.

Under Kumble's stewardship they looked a totally changed outfit, fearless and determined to walk that extra mile for a win. Importantly, local players like B Akhil and R Vinay Kumar too began to chip in more consistently under his guidance. It was a thrilling sight to see Kumble carrying the dual responsibility of captain and premier bowler with ease on his broad shoulders.

Now, in all probability, he will be the full-time skipper of RCB in IPL III, and all eyes will be on Kumble, captain superb and bowler magnificent.