Cricket TV – The Mongoose bat has been at the forefront of the 2010 Indian Premier League (IPL), with it being used to good effect by the likes of Andrew Symonds (Deccan Chargers) and Matthew Hayden (Chennai Super Kings). Already over 200 runs and 15 sixes have been hit. Here, Cricket World® TV takes a closer look at the bats and interviews the inventor of the bat. Jim White presents.

Would it be a right choice?

England or South Africa, the finalization of the venue of much discussed and delayed event of Indian Premier League (IPL) is still in doldrums. The security threat was not at all ignorable when the world witnessed the traumatic situation faced by Sri Lankans in Lahore, Pakistan. Cricket is really the soft target for the terrorists in the Sub Continent.

The Chief of IPL Mr. Modi although wise enough to export the event to save his reputation and of course the future of this multi billion dollar event, but his dreams seem to be almost shattering. Shifting of IPL to England or South Africa was a unilateral decision taken by the BCCI the Cricket Board of India and this decision was taken without seeking any sort of consent or guarantee from the Cricket Boards of the expected venues. Obviously, it was a matter of shock for ECB and Cricket South Africa. Such kind of event requires long term planning and taking into account all the aspects of management which include boarding, lodging, TV rights, availability of stadiums and above all the existence of fool proof security plan. Mr. Modi is now in a twisted and cramped situation and is reaching the point of no return.

Just recently the news floated around the world that Terrorists inside India had a very dangerous plan to kidnap their premier cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly. The news was enough to run the chill through the spines of many Cricket lovers in and outside India. In these circumstances, it can clearly be said that BCCI has dragged England and South Africa into a very dangerous situation. IPL is a very costly event and many International Players would be participating in that tournament. No matter Indian Government is giving the excuse of ongoing Elections which is causing the Government to declare their inability to handle the security requirements of the tournament, but inside story would not be very good. Why this event needs extra security? Surely the news of kidnapping plot is the key instrument which has forced the Government to indirectly halt the event or unofficially cancel it to be held on Indian soil.

Though the above mentioned facts are increasing difficulties for India, but the shifting of event most likely to England or South Africa could make the matters more difficult for the nations to be hosting IPL now. Recently, Mr. Gordon Brown the Prime Minister of Great Britain clearly mentioned that security threats are always alive in the United Kingdom and Al Qaeda is planning to initiate a very dangerous action this time. The UK Government may have taken all necessary measures but the question is, those forces that made the staging of IPL impossible inside India, can’t they hit this event even more badly inside UK? This is a million dollar question, all because, if any thing unexpected happens inside UK then it will badly hurt the future of sporting events inside UK too.

The Governments of the countries likely to host the IPL should not take this matter as a birthday party. After 26/11 in Mumbai and Lahore attacks on Sri Lankan team, cricket has become extremely dangerous event for the people of the Sub Continent. Handling a Test Series or a one day series with any country has different sort of security requirements. However the event of IPL’s size need a detailed and most efficient security plan and requires huge sum of money to be spent to execute those plans. Although IPL management has shown their willingness to overcome all budgetary constraints regarding the security, but still it is not at all necessary that South Africa or UK may welcome IPL’s event on their soil.

Things may turn more worst because IPL’s management has decided not to include Pakistani players in this edition which will flare up the Pakistani community inside UK and South Africa. The issue is very serious and must be taken into account. Every body knows that Indo Pak tensions are on a high wave these days, excluding Pakistani players from IPL is also making this event a target for disturbance and disruption.

Eventually, Indian Government should not allow IPL to be exported outside the territory of India. It is better to cancel the event this year to avoid all sorts of complications and embarrassments. The matter is now highly politicized inside India and is being used as an instrument to defame each other during election campaign. The best solution left now is to forcefully cancel the event which is a much better option now.

Each team had a pool of 16 players, with a maximum of eight overseas players and a min of four U-22 players. The first “Players Auction” was held on the Feb. 20, 2008, giving the iconic status to Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag, great Indian Cricket Icons. All 8 teams played each other 2 times in the round robin system, the top four ranking sides’ progressed to the semi-finals. IPL is all set this year and ready to rock the Cricket fraternity with its glorious and glamorous series to be held within few days.

The 8 franchises of the IPL, with their business tycoons, Bollywood stars and media magnets this year shall include:
Rajasthan Royals: Owned by Emerging India, Lachlan Murdoch, Shilpa Shetty (Winner Big Brother UK) and Raj Kundra.
Mumbai Indians: Owned by business tycoon Mukesh Ambani.
Royal Challenge Bangalore: Owned by Vijay Mallaya of UB Group.
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers: Owned by Deccan Chargers Sporting Venture.
Chennai Super Kings: Owned by Indian Cements (N Srinivasan).
Delhi Daredevils: Owned by GMR Holdings (Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao)
Kings XI Punjab: Owned by Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Priety Zinta (Bollywood Actress), Dabur and Karan Paul.
Kolkatta Knight Riders: Owned by Red Chillies Entertainment (Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Jai Mehta.

Indian premier league is expected to bring about US $1 billion over the period of 5-10 years. This revenue will be distributed as 50% will go back to IPL, Franchises 45% and prize money 5%. In the first season, no one was expected to break even, but the success of the first season was so phenomenal that some of the franchises are already profitable from the season 1. Kolkatta knight riders though, did not qualify for the semi finals, made the net profit of 13 Crores due to the successful marketing strategy by its owner Shahrukh Khan, while the Rajasthan royals, the underdogs, who also were the last year winners, made net profit of 6 Crores.

After the highly successful first season, it is reported that 4 new franchises will join the IPL in the season 2010-2011.The new confirmed franchises are Ahmadabad, with Anil Ambani’s name associated wit it, and Kanpur with Sahara group; associated with it. The tentative dates for the second season of the DLF Indian Premier League, had been announced by the Chairman & League Commissioner, Lalit Modi. It has been set from April 10th, 2009 to May 29th, 2009.

The formats of the season will remain the same as the first season. The auction of the players will begin in Goa on 6th. There are 114 players up for grabs in this auction. Indian premier league which was formed on the on the lines of English premier league and national basketball league has also become a Mega Major Sporting event. Will the much hyped T20 championship league be able to continue its success run, or its bubble will burst in the coming years? We shall find out as the series unfolds.

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Cricket is considered to be more like a religion in India than just a sport. People have their passion with this game and passion is one virtue where everything else takes a backseat. The sports world is starting to provide us more thrills off-the field than on-the field. The fast blurring line between the showbiz industry and sports has made T20 cricket look like just another prime-time reality show.

Cricket started with test matches and went till one day and now, its brand new format is twenty20. With the victory in Twenty20 World Cup Cricket Tournament in South Africa, this format has become India’s beloved game. After seeing so much praise, BCCI has taken the support from cricket boards of various countries and players from different countries have been allowed to play in the IPL Cricket League and they are being paid heavy sums for doing so. Amounts so large are involved in both these ventures that using the word “enormous” will be underestimating them. Auctions of the players and the state teams in the IPL have attracted big business houses, Bollywood actors, millionaires from all over the world. It is the big names that are paying that have made all the difference in the IPL. As is evident, IPL T20 has given a new meaning to cricket. But this only indicates the commercialization of cricket.

Players are being auctioned at unbelievable prices to the extent that they are skipping schedules in their own countries to participate in the IPL matches. Some like Brett Lee have “retired” from the test matches to concentrate on the new format. The flip side of this phenomenon is that it has extended the career of some cricketers. Obviously, more than the format it is the ‘money’ that is luring these players of International repute.

Even though, this is shortest form of cricket which has given tallest of height to cricket, too much money is getting into the game. Somewhere the whole game is turning out to be a theme based entertainment and the real essence of the game is being lost!!

Nevertheless, if you wish to have your part of this game also referred to as ‘the Gentleman’s game’, register at www.biggsport.com. It is the top few sites which has fantasy games as well as sports news portal.

Biggsport.com as a sports website offers free score updates, free article features written by cricket writers. It gives free news and also biggsport.com is planning to have ball to ball free telecast. Biggsport.com is and will always be thriving to reach the entire sports fan via news or online games.

Indian Premier League has been launched by the BCCI in the April 2008, with eight teams with the minimum of 16 players each. Indian Premier League is actually a new name in the Twenty 20 world. Its format is basically of  twenty overs for each innings. As the Twenty 20 cricket format is getting fame between the lovers of cricket. Some says cricket is no more boring. This twenty 20 cricket format also attracting new fans for cricket.

The IPL basically works on franchising system like American style. These franchises actually put auction for the players of cricket, and highest bidder results to own the team. In the beginning of IPL this auction starts from 200 million $, goes up to723.5 million $.  Some celebrities of Bollywood also takes interest in IPL, because in there view this is a very good opportunity to invest, as this IPL event is a new concept in the twenty 20 world and off course it gonna happens to be huge famous for twenty 20 lovers.
As now a days life is comparatively more busy and everyone is busy in his schedule, for that they cannot spend much time to continue watch their favorite cricket sports of 8-9 hours, they need the same thrill of cricket in short time. So i guess it is also an important factor for the IPL to become renowned among cricket fans. Cricket fans specially the Indian fans just got a fresh entertainment in the twenty 20 world to enjoy their favorite sports. And today everyone know that IPL is becoming famous among the twenty 20 lovers. One reason could be the money as much much money involved in the IPL for cricket players.

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IPL or the Indian Premier League is the new revolution in the field of sports. It has been the major upheaval to the game of cricket, which no one has ever witnessed. In a country like India, cricket is worshiped like a religion. It is the shortest game format until now, which has been reduced from the earlier format of test matches to one dayers and finally to the 20 over game, better known for its power packed entertainment, energy and excitement. It is situation when Indians will be praying for their extreme rivals, a great way to unite the entire world.

With the empire striking back in full force, the third season of IPL is also expected to rock like the previous ones. One who keeps regular updates of this rippled game format will surely be aware of the current situation of cricket. But the signs of recessions too can be seen on IPL with all the biggies associated with this game format decide to tighten their belt by saving huge bucks by not going for new promotional activities like the promotional video known to attract millions of eyeballs.

But with all the corporate honchos on the side as sponsors, it has to be a grand affair. Through the investment of huge amount of money into this venture, the attention of media will always be on this sport. As cricket is more than an obsession for the Indian crowd, this factor is utilized by coupling it with the support of the rich and famous along with those who are into the show business and the result is what you see throughout these matches.

With giant companies like DLF sponsoring this event for US$50 million for the title rights of IPL for 5 years, you can only expect some of the most biggest and sought after cricket players around the world who are been roped in like Sourav Ganguly, Shane Warne, Sachin Tendulkar, Andrew Symonds, Sanath Jayasurya, Shane Bond, Adam Gilchrist, M. S. Dhoni and many more. With teams like Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers, Delhi Daredevils, Kings-XII Punjab from central India, Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians, every Indian would relate themselves to this unique game format creating Great Spirit across the country.

The 2010 season started with a striking game between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Deccan Chargers. This year KKR is showing great potential with two back-to-back wins. However, Rajasthan Royals and the Deccan Chargers are among the top contenders, expectations also remain with Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians for their swashbuckling performances last year. Some of the most awaited matches are on the board when these teams clash against each other. IPL fans looking to support and cheer their team can buy IPL jerseys, caps etc.

IPL (Indian premier league) â?? A Glimpse

The Indian Premier League is also known as the “DLF Indian Premier League” and is abbreviated as IPL. It is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and chaired by the Chairman & Commissioner IPL, BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi.

The bidderâ??s of the IPL are as follows.

Mumbai Indians â?? Mukesh Ambani Royal Challengers Bangalore â?? Vijay Mallya Deccan Charges -  Deccan Chronicle Chennai Super Kings â?? India Cements Delhi Daredevils â?? GMR Holdings Kings XI Punjab – Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Priety Zinta, Mohit Burman (Dabur) and Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) Kolkata Knight Riders – Red Chillies Entertainment (Shahrukh Khan, Gauri Khan, Juhi Chawla and J Mehta) Rajasthan Royals – Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha and Suresh Chellaram), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra.

The first season of the Indian Premier League was commenced on the 18 April 2008, and ended on 1 June 2008 with the victory of the Rajasthan Royals against Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

The tournament started on 18 April 2008 in Bangalore and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. Rajasthan Royals emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.

In India, IPL has become very popular and the 2nd Session of it was scheduled in the year 2009 in South Africa as the IPL coincided with the general elections of India. Deccan Charges were awarded as the winner of the tournament.

The List of Hat tricks of the IPL of 2008 and 2009 are as follows:

2008 IPL â?? Lakshmipathy Balaji  and Victims – Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, VRV Singh For Chennai Super Kings against kings XI Punjab â?? 1 Hat trick (10th May 08) 2008 IPL â?? Amith Mishra and Victims – Dwaraka Ravi Teja, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha For Delhi Daredevils against Deccan Charges â?? 1 Hat trick (15th may 08) 2008 IPL â?? Makhaya Ntini and Victims – Sourav Ganguly, Debabrata Das, David Hussey For Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata Knight Riders â?? 2 Hat trick (18th May 2008) 2009 IPL â?? Yuvraj Singh and Victims – Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher, Jacques Kallis For Kings XI Punjab against Royal Challengers Bangalore â?? 1 Hat trick (1st May 2009) 2009 IPL â?? Rohit Sharma and Victims – Abhishek Nayar, Harbhajan Singh, JP Duminy For Deccan Charges against Mumbai Indians â?? 1 Hat trick (6th May 09) 2009 IPL â?? Yuvraj Singh and Victims - Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Symonds, Venugopal Rao For Kings XI Punjab against Deccan Charges â?? 2 Hat trick ( 17th May 09)

The 3rd Session of IPL is scheduled for 12th March 2010 and continues up and till 25th April 2010.

You can find the IPL-3 Schedule by clicking this link â??IPL SCHEDULEâ?

http://www.cricandcric.com/news/IPL-III-schedule.html

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The staging of World Cup in sub continent would not be a better choice.

Mumbai attacks and early calling off the Indian Cricket League matches and the then tour of England were the most wisely taken decisions. Security of the foreign players would always be of extreme importance. The recent attack on Sri Lankan players is also an eye opening incident for many teams who were expressing their reservations on touring the Sub-Continent.

The change of venue of ICC Champions Trophy was very much necessary as the whole Sub-Continent is at the tip of a volcano. The losing of war by Tamil Tigers, the beating of Talibans and Terrorist forces in Pakistani Northern Areas, rising insurgency by many forces inside India like Ram Sena, ULFA, Naxalites etc and Mutiny in Bangladeshi Army are the events and the facts which are growing the deadly threats for the international sportsmen who are willing to play in this region.

Before advocating the staging of sports event in the countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, we must understand that the level of security forces and their expertise can be termed as out of comparison to that of handful of terrorists who can easily complete their mission successfully besides heavy security measures. Mumbai or Lahore, the terrorist inflicted heavy casualties and were extremely efficient as compared to the forces fought with them. Had the terrorists succeeded in taking Sri Lankan players as hostage, situation would have been more than worst. Mumbai was a standoff situation and the terrorists were surrounded and they had to bear the casualty. But the question arises, what if they will overcome their mistakes in their next attempt and would be able to nab any participating international player of the Indian Premier League (IPL)?

Besides all the assurances, one must understand that security agencies, police and paramilitary forces in India displayed their extreme helplessness during the Mumbai attacks. Their capabilities are not seriously enhanced after such a painful experience and frankly there is no change till today in their approach to handle the terrorism’s threat. Terrorists may have well evaluated and understood that Indian forces are not at all capable to defend any severe assault if happens this time at the time of IPL. The venues are scattered and great number of players would be traveling under heavy security promised by IPL management. But, can we expect that the security personnel have been trained amply or would be even more agile??? Pakistan also made similar promises and assurances but the result is visible. To know about the capability of Indian Police and Paramilitary, it is so easy to surf around the internet and understand the kind of training catered and weaponry used by them which undoubtedly is extremely out dated and sometimes does not even work at the time of any kind of face to face combat. The Policemen especially the low ranked are extremely low paid, living in absurd conditions beneath the poverty level. After their death in any encounter their family is not supported properly by the Government. In these circumstances it is hard to expect that any police officer would risk his life when he knows that his family will suffer helplessly in the end.

People of the Sub-Continent should understand that we can only held ourselves responsible if we risk the lives of foreign players who would come here to entertain us but God forbid leave with extremely horrible memories and bruises on their bodies.

Right now our Governments should act with close coordination and find the root cause of terrorism inside our countries and eliminate social injustice in the society. We should work hard to minimize poverty in this region and settle our mutual disputes which cause confrontation and perpetual tensions among the neighboring nations. For the betterment of the people living in the sub continent it is necessary that we should work harder than before and eliminate all the threats which have made even the sports, unsafe in this region.

I personally feel that we cannot put pressure on Foreign Players to play cricket or participate in any sporting event in this region by putting their lives at risk. It is also true that the wealth of the whole world cannot buy a single extra moment of life. This is my sincere advice to all the cricketing nations that Sub-continent is presently an unsafe region to play cricket. Any decision should be taken after complete assessment of security plan and available facilities. We can only feel the pain and trauma which Sri Lankan cricketers experienced in Lahore. But putting lives of many players in danger again on extremely vulnerable event of IPL would be a mistake people would not forgive us for long.

Let us hope that we could be able to develop our security arrangements to such a level that we could successfully stage the coming World Cup Cricket event in the Sub-Continent with confidence and with peace of mind.

New season of 2009 Indian Premier League will commence on 18th April 2009 in Bangalore, but Chennai Super King will play their First Match of Indian Premier League 2009 on 19th April 2009. How Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Captain and Icon of Chennai Super King will perform during second Season of Indian Premier League 2009.

April 19, 2009: Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings at Mohali
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Mahi)’s, Captain of Chennai Super Kings, Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 6th house, which will not help MS to give good start, M.S.Dhoni will perform averagely.

April 23, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians at Chennai
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 8th house, which will helpful to Mahi to take good decisions. MS Dhoni will perform well.

April 26, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders at Chennai
MS Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 10th house, which will be good for Dhoni. Mahendra Singh Dhoni will perform good.

April 28, 2009: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings at Bangalore
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Mahi)’s, Captain of Chennai Super Kings, Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 10th house, Kendra from Virgo Navamsha, which will be good, but MS Dhoni will perform averagely.

May 2, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils at Chennai.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 12th house, which will make MS Dhoni in troubles. Dhoni will not perform as per expectation of Mahi’s fan.

May 4, 2009: Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings at Jaipur
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Mahi)’s, Captain of Chennai Super Kings, Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through also from Leo sign, Match patch, Ball, Wind and everything which is helpful for Cricket, will help to MS Dhoni. MS Dhoni will perform well.

May 6, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers at Chennai
MS Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 2nd house, which will be good. First half week of May 2009 will be good for Dhoni. Mahendra Singh Dhoni will perform good.

May 8, 2009: Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings at Delhi
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 3rd house, MS Dhoni’s performance will be at peak, he will heat long super sixes, MS Dhoni will perform well.

May 10, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab at Chennai
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Mahi)’s, Captain of Chennai Super Kings, Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 4th house, decision from after lots of thoughts will make MS Dhoni in troubles. M.S.Dhoni will perform averagely.

May 14, 2009: Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings at Mumbai
MS Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 5th house, MS will try to overcome his mistake, Mahendra Singh Dhoni will perform good.

May 21, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chennai
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 8th house,
Which will not be good. MS Dhoni will not perform as per expectation of Mahi’s fan.

May 24, 2009: Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals at Chennai
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Mahi)’s, Captain of Chennai Super Kings, Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 10th house, which will help MS Dhoni to get back his form but MS Dhoni will perform averagely.

May 27: Deccan Chargers v Chennai Super Kings at Hyderabad
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Moon sign is Leo, Moon in transit will pass through 11th house, which will be extremely good, he will heat long super sixes, MS Dhoni will perform well.

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