Can the domestic players do it?

Successful Ranji Trophy season could very well be the foundation on which many domestic stars build their international career.

A number of domestic Ranji players have found a place in the final squads of the IPL franchises for the 2010 season. And rather fortuitously for players, several spots are up for grabs in the Indian national team, what with its ranks being depleted owing to injuries to senior players.


Zaheer Khan, the fulcrum of the Indian pace attack, has been performing well, but there is an opening for a supporting role. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Karnataka pacer A Mithun was recently picked for the Test squad.

There is another candidate who hopes to make it to the national squad on the back of a strong Ranji season - Love Ablish. The son of a shoe merchant, he plays for Punjab in the domestic circuit and was the third highest wicket-taker in Ranji Super League this year. The medium-pacer took 36 wickets at an average of 23.88. He would be hoping that sharing the nets for Kings XI Punjab with Australian pacer Brett Lee, Indian swing expert Irfan Pathan and South African Yusuf Abdulla would help improve his bowling and attract the Indian selectors to pick him for the T20 World Cup.

The Saurashtra opener Chirag Pathak, who hit a brisk century in the Duleep final, has been drafted in by Kolkata Knight Riders. Chirag had a great Ranji season having scored 601 runs from six matches. This southpaw would be rubbing his hands with excitement at the prospect of learning from two of this generation’s greatest left-handed openers, Sourav Ganguly and Chris Gayle.

Also named in the KKR squad were reliable middle-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara and Tamil Nadu’s hard-hitting opener Ganapathi Vignesh.

Royal Challengers’ S Sriram, who has turned out in Indian colours, would also be hoping to make enough of an impression during IPL 2010 to be back in the national squad.

Chennai Super Kings have signed up C Ganapathy, who was one of the Ranji Trophy's leading all-rounders this season. The Tamil Nadu seamer caught the eye of selectors when he took a five-wicket haul in the Duleep Trophy final. His batting prowess was on display during the Ranji Trophy Super League – he scored 543 runs at an average of 77.57. This all-round ability should stand him in good stead and increase his chances of making the playing XI.

The domestic cricketers in IPL’s ranks would be hoping to make the most of the chance to play with, and learn from, the international stars. We now have to wait and watch if IPL 2010 would be the year they graduate from the domestic level and make a mark on the big stage.

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.