Indian Premier League - The Rules
To ensure that the richest teams don't always win out the tour has created five ways that a franchise can acquire a player.
First one is In the annual auction,
Second buying domestic players,
Third signing uncapped players
Fourth through trading and
Finally buying replacements.
There is a Trading Window where a player can be traded but only with his consent. The buying team will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new contract is worth more than the older one then the difference will be shared between the player and the team selling the player.
Team composition rules are:
* Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach.
* No more than 10 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI.
* A minimum of 8 local players must be included in each team.
* A minimum of 2 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each team.
Some of the players are allocated ICON Status some of the players accorded "icon" status are: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag .
In the next few years there are planned expansions of the IPL next season it is expected that four new franchises will join the IPL increasing the teams to 12 the confirmed teams are to be based in Ahmedabad and Kanpur other cities currently being linked are Patna-Ranchi and a possible team from the North East in an attempt to promote sport in that region also one from the North Western States of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachai Pradesh and Uttarkhand. 2012 and 2013 it is expected that one of the unselected teams from the previous year will be considered it is also expected that a second Mumbai or Delhi team will be proposed watch this space.
IPL Cricket News
The first of the semi finals was played on Wednesday between Bangalore RC and Mumbai Indians, Mumbai went on to win this match by 35 runs Today we will find out who Mumbai's oppents in the final will be my money is going on Deccan to just pip Chennai do you agree? Well that shows you what I know the final is between Mumbai and Chennai with Deccan and Bangalore fighting it out for the 3rd place spot
Saturday 24th April 2010 the IPL league is coming to a close and Deccan Chargers went head to head with Bangalore RC for third spot unfortunately for Deccan, Bangalore won by 9 wickets.
Sunday 25th April 2010 The final game of the current season saw Chennai Super Kings play Mumbai Indians for the IPL title. Chennai won the toss and went on to win the final by 22 runs, congratulations to a Super Team. can't wait for next season.
