Monday, March 17, 2008

LOST GLORY:

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Indian hockey and Olympics

2008 Beijing Failed to qualify
2004 Athens Seventh
2000 Sydney Seventh
1996 Atlanta Eighth
1992 Barcelona Seventh
1988 Seoul Sixth
1984 Los Angeles Fifth
1980 Moscow Gold
1976 Montreal Seventh
1972 Munich Bronze
1968 Mexico City Bronze
1964 Tokyo Gold
1960 Rome Silver
1956 Melbourne Gold
1952 Helsinki Gold
1948 London Gold
1936 Berlin Gold
1932 Los Angeles Gold
1928 Amsterdam Gold

Monday, March 10, 2008


The Indian Premier League, created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and sanctioned by the International Cricket Council, is a Twenty20 cricket competition.


Each team will play the other 7 teams home and away, the top four teams at the end of the group stages will proceed through to the semi finals.

On January 14th, 2008, it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the rights of the Indian Premier League.[1] The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US$1,026 million. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US$918 million for the telecast rights and US$108 million for the promotion of the tournament.[2]

The BCCI announced that the bulk of the proceeds from this deal would initially go to the IPL franchises themselves, gradually reducing this amount over the life of the contract.

Network Ten has bought the rights to show every game live in Australia on free-to-air television for the next five years at a cost of AU$10 - $15 million.[3]

Setanta Sports have secured the UK rights in a 5-year deal. All 59 games will be shown on their subscription channels.[4]

Title Sponsorship Rights

Indian real estate developer DLF Universal secured exclusive rights to the Indian Premier League title sponsorship worth INR 200 crore (over US$50 million) for five years.

The magnitude of the Indian Premier League was confirmed when the winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on January 24, 2008.[5] While the total base price for auction was US$400 million, the auction fetched US$723.59 million.[6] The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were as follows.

Franchise Owner(s) Price (USD)
Mumbai Indians
Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Industries Limited $111.9 million
Bangalore Royal Challengers Dr. Vijay Mallya and UB group $111.6 million
Hyderabad
Deccan Chronicle $107 million
Chennai Super Kings India Cements and N Srinivasan $91 million
Delhi DareDevils GMR Holdings $84 million
Mohali
Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur) $76 million
Kolkata Knight Riders
Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla Mehta and Jai Mehta $75.09 million
Rajasthan Royals Emerging Media: (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram) $67 million

Administration

Player signings

The official list of Players bids were as follows.

Franchise Player Age Country Cost (USD)

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Coach: Venkatesh Prasad Flag of India

Rahul Dravid (c) 35 Flag of India India $1,035,000
Jacques Kallis 32 Flag of South Africa South Africa $900,000
Anil Kumble 37 Flag of India India $500,000
Cameron White 24 Flag of Australia Australia $500,000
Zaheer Khan 29 Flag of India India $450,000
Mark Boucher 31 Flag of South Africa South Africa $450,000
Nathan Bracken 30 Flag of Australia Australia $325,000
Dale Steyn 24 Flag of South Africa South Africa $325,000
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 33 Flag of British West Indies West Indies $200,000
Wasim Jaffer 30 Flag of India India $150,000
Misbah-ul-Haq 33 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $120,000
Abdur Razzak 25 Flag of Bangladesh Bangladesh $50,000
Balachandra Akhil 30 Flag of India India ?????
KP Appanna 19 Flag of India India ?????
Jagadeesh Arunkumar 33 Flag of India India ?????
Sunil Joshi 37 Flag of India India ?????
Virat Kohli 19 Flag of India India ?????
Devraj Patil 23 Flag of India India ?????
Bharat Chipli 25 Flag of India India ?????
Shreevats Goswami 18 Flag of India India ?????
Ross Taylor 24 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $100,000
Vinay Kumar 24 Flag of India India ?????
Total purchase price

$4,955,000

Chennai Super Kings

Coach: Kepler Wessels Flag of South Africa

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c) 26 Flag of India India $1,500,000
Jacob Oram 28 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $675,000
Suresh Raina 21 Flag of India India $650,000
Albie Morkel 28 Flag of South Africa South Africa $675,000
Muttiah Muralitharan 35 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $600,000
Matthew Hayden 36 Flag of Australia Australia $375,000
Michael Hussey 32 Flag of Australia Australia $350,000
Stephen Fleming 35 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $350,000
Parthiv Patel 22 Flag of India India $325,000
Joginder Sharma 24 Flag of India India $225,000
Makhaya Ntini 30 Flag of South Africa South Africa $200,000
Sudeep Tyagi 20 Flag of India India ?????
Srikkanth Anirudha 20 Flag of India India ?????
R Ashwin 21 Flag of India India ?????
Subramaniam Badrinath 27 Flag of India India ?????
Napoleon Einstein 18 Flag of India India ?????
Shadab Jakati 27 Flag of India India ?????
Abhinav Mukund 18 Flag of India India ?????
Total purchase price

$5,925,000

Delhi DareDevils

Coach: Greg Shipperd Flag of Australia

Virender Sehwag (c) 29 Flag of India India $833,750
Gautam Gambhir 26 Flag of India India $725,000
Manoj Tiwary 22 Flag of India India $675,000
Mohammad Asif 25 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $650,000
Daniel Vettori 29 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $625,000
Dinesh Karthik 22 Flag of India India $525,000
Shoaib Malik 26 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $500,000
Glenn McGrath 38 Flag of Australia Australia $350,000
AB de Villiers 24 Flag of South Africa South Africa $300,000
Tillakaratne Dilshan 31 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $250,000
Farveez Maharoof 23 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $225,000
Rajat Bhatia 28 Flag of India India ?????
Shikhar Dhawan 22 Flag of India India ?????
Brett Geeves 25 Flag of Australia Australia $50,000
Yo Mahesh 20 Flag of India India ?????
Mithun Manhas 28 Flag of India India ?????
Pradeep Sangwan 17 Flag of India India ?????
Mayank Tehlan 21 Flag of India India ?????
Total purchase price

$5,622,500

IPL Hyderabad

Coach: Robin Singh Flag of India

Andrew Symonds 32 Flag of Australia Australia $1,350,000
R. P. Singh 22 Flag of India India $875,000
Rohit Sharma 20 Flag of India India $750,000
Adam Gilchrist 36 Flag of Australia Australia $700,000
Shahid Afridi 27 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $675,000
Herschelle Gibbs 34 Flag of South Africa South Africa $575,000
V. V. S. Laxman (c) 33 Flag of India India $375,000
Chaminda Vaas 34 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $200,000
Scott Styris 32 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $175,000
Nuwan Zoysa 29 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $110,000
Chamara Silva 28 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $100,000
Halhadar Das 21 Flag of India India ?????
Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna 24 Flag of India India ?????
Pragyan Ojha 21 Flag of India India ?????
Dwaraka Ravi Teja 20 Flag of India India ?????
Venugopal Rao 26 Flag of India India $25,000 (Needs to be confirmed)
Paidikalva Vijaykumar 21 Flag of India India ?????
Arjun Yadav 26 Flag of India India ?????
Total purchase price

$5,885,000

Rajasthan Royals

Coach: Shane Warne Flag of Australia

Shane Warne (c) 38 Flag of Australia Australia $450,000
Yusuf Pathan 25 Flag of India India $475,000
Graeme Smith 27 Flag of South Africa South Africa $475,000
Mohammad Kaif 27 Flag of India India $675,000
Munaf Patel 24 Flag of India India $275,000
Younis Khan 30 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $225,000
Justin Langer 37 Flag of Australia Australia $200,000
Kamran Akmal 26 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $150,000
Shane Watson 27 Flag of Australia Australia $125,000
Dimitri Mascarenhas 30 Flag of England England $100,000
Morne Morkel 23 Flag of South Africa South Africa $60,000
Ravindra Jadeja 19 Flag of India India ?????
Taruwar Kohli 19 Flag of India India ?????
Pankaj Singh 22 Flag of India India ?????
Anup Revandkar 20 Flag of India India ?????
Sohail Tanvir 23 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan ?????
Total purchase price

$3,210,000

Kolkata Knight Riders

Coach: John Buchanan Flag of Australia

Sourav Ganguly (c) 35 Flag of India India $1,092,500
Ishant Sharma 19 Flag of India India $950,000
Chris Gayle 28 Flag of British West Indies West Indies $800,000
Brendon McCullum 26 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $700,000
David Hussey 30 Flag of Australia Australia $625,000
Shoaib Akhtar 32 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $425,000
Murali Kartik 31 Flag of India India $425,000
Ricky Ponting 33 Flag of Australia Australia $400,000
Ajit Agarkar 30 Flag of India India $330,000
Umar Gul 23 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan $150,000
Tatenda Taibu 24 Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe $125,000
Siddarth Kaul 17 Flag of India India ?????
Iqbal Abdulla 18 Flag of India India ?????
Mohammad Hafeez 27 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan ?????
Salman Butt 23 Flag of Pakistan Pakistan ?????
Total purchase price

$6,022,500

IPL Mohali

Coach: Tom Moody Flag of Australia

Yuvraj Singh (c) 26 Flag of India India $1,063,750
Irfan Pathan 23 Flag of India India $925,000
Brett Lee 31 Flag of Australia Australia $900,000
Kumar Sangakkara 30 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $700,000
Sreesanth 25 Flag of India India $625,000
Mahela Jayawardene 30 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $475,000
Piyush Chawla 19 Flag of India India $400,000
Ramnaresh Sarwan 27 Flag of British West Indies West Indies $225,000
Simon Katich 32 Flag of Australia Australia $200,000
Ramesh Powar 29 Flag of India India $170,000
James Hopes 29 Flag of Australia Australia $324,000[8]
Luke Pomersbach 23 Flag of Australia Australia $50,000
Ajitesh Argal 19 Flag of India India ?????
Karan Goel 21 Flag of India India ?????
Uday Kaul 20 Flag of India India ?????
Kyle Mills 28 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand $150,000
VRV Singh 23 Flag of India India ?????
Tanmay Srivastava 18 Flag of India India ?????
Total purchase price

$5,733,750

Mumbai Indians


Coach: Lalchand Rajput Flag of India

Sachin Tendulkar (c) 34 Flag of India India $1,121,250
Sanath Jayasuriya 38 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $975,000
Harbhajan Singh 27 Flag of India India $850,000
Robin Uthappa 22 Flag of India India $800,000
Shaun Pollock 34 Flag of South Africa South Africa $550,000
Lasith Malinga 24 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $350,000
Loots Bosman 30 Flag of South Africa South Africa $175,000
Ashwell Prince 30 Flag of South Africa South Africa $175,000
Dilhara Fernando 28 Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka $150,000
Abhishek Nayar 24 Flag of India India ?????
Manish Pandey 18 Flag of India India ?????
Ajinkya Rahane 19 Flag of India India ?????
Pinal Shah 20 Flag of India India ?????
Yogesh Vijay Takawale 23 Flag of India India ?????
Saurabh Tiwary 18 Flag of India India ?????
Total purchase price

$5,146,250

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