1- WHAT IS IPL?
2- WHEN DID IT FOUND?
3- HOW IT WORKS?
4- RULES OF THE IPL?
5- TEAM INFORMATION ON IPL?
Let’s understand each heading deeply—
1- WHAT IS IPL?
The Indian Premier League which is also known as IPL is a men’s Twenty20 in short form it is known as the T20 cricket league conducted yearly in India and contested by ten city-based franchise clubs. In 2007, the Board of Control for Cricket commonly known as BCCI in India established the league. The IPL is led by Arun Singh Dhumal. In 2010 and 2014, IPL became the first sporting tournament in history to be broadcast live on YouTube. It ranked 6th in average attendance among all sports leagues. The IPL is the most popular cricket league in the world, with a brand value of 90,038 cores and a projected value of $10.9 billion in 2022.
Its headquarters is located in Cricket Center, Mumbai, and Maharashtra.
A team can acquire players by participating in the yearly player auction, dealing with other teams during the trade windows, and signing substitutes for unavailable players. Unsold players can be brought in as replacements. Before and after the auction, there are three trading windows, and players cannot be traded outside of or during the tournament.
HIGHLIGHTS OF IPL—
- Team Mumbai Indians owned by Nita Ambani has won 5 times under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma.
- In 2021, Gujrat Titans who were the new team won the title.
- Virat Kohli has made a record for most runs of 6624.
- Dwane Bravo has a record for taking the most wickets which is 183.
2- WHEN DID IT FOUND?
On September 13th 2007 BCCI announced a franchise based 20-20 competition known as Indian Premier League. The first season was started in April 2008, in a “high-profile ceremony” in New Delhi.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FOUNDATION
- On 24 January 2008,8 cities teams were announced, with Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mohali, Jaipur, Kolkata and Chennai.
- Pakistan Team player was Prohibited in this tournament due to the Mumbai Terrorist attack in 2008.
- Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were suspended for two seasons in 2015 due to a spot-fixing scandal.
- BCCI announces two new franchises in six cities from the 2022 season. They were
- Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Dharamshala and Ranchi.
- The IPL was formed with a similar structure to the NBA and Premier League.
3-HOW DOES IT WORK?
Eight teams compete against one another for two points on wins and one point on losses. The top four teams advance to the playoffs after a double round-robin format is used in the event.
The winner of Qualifier 1 advances to the final, although the loser is not eliminated. The winner of the eliminator, on the other hand, advances to face the Qualification 1 losers. The loser of the eliminator is ousted from Qualification 2. Final matchup between Qualifier 2 and Qualifier 1 determines the tournament victor.
SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF HOW IT WORKS
- This season in 2023 after expiring vivo sponsorship of 2 years Now Tata becomes the new sponsor of IPL.
- IPL 2023 micro auction allows teams to keep the majority of players.
4- RULES OF IPL?
Here is some detailed information about the rules of the Indian Premier League(IPL) which are given below:-
- Every Team must have 25 players including 8 international players. In fact, in their playing eleven 4 international players are mandatory.
- Bowlers must complete overs in allocated time otherwise they couldn’t place 4 fielders outside of the fielding restrictions circle.
- Strategic timeouts are used in IPL games and they can be imposed if teams abuse them. The team has to take an intentional pause between the sixth and ninth overs and the thirteenth and sixteenth overs.
- DRS allows teams to review umpire’s decisions in IPL matches.
- Unfair movement penalised with five runs and dead ball.
- Teams must spend at least 75% of their purse balance to buy a player.
5- TEAM INFORMATION ON IPL?
There are 8 teams when IPL started in 2008, there are 2 new teams added in 2022 here are all team’s names with plenty of information—
1-CHENNAI SUPER KINGS (CSK) —
This team debuted in 2008 owned by N. Srinivasan the captain of this team is M.S Dhoni and the team coach’s name is Stephen Fleming. Its home ground Stadium’s name is Chidambaram Stadium and the city the team represents is Tamil Nadu.
2- DELHI CAPITALS(DC)—
This team debuted in 2008 owned by Sajjan Jindal, and G. M. Rao the captain of this team is David Warner and the team coach’s name is Ricky Ponting. Its home ground stadium’s name is Arun Jaitley Stadium and the city the team represents is New Delhi, Delhi.
3-MUMBAI INDIANS (MI) –
This team also debuted in 2008 owned by business tycoon Mukesh Ambani the captain of this team is Rohit Sarma and the team coach’s name is Mark Boucher. Its home ground name is Wankhede Stadium and the city the team represents is Mumbai, Maharashtra.
4- KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS (KKR)-
This team debuted in 2008 owned by SRK, JUHI CHWALA AND JAY MEHTA the captain of this team is NITISH RANA and the team coach’s name is CHANDRAKANT PANDIT. Its home ground name is EDEN GARDENS and the city the team represents is KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL.
5- PUNJAB KINGS-
This team debuted in 2008 owned by Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia , Preity Zinta and Karan Paul the captain of this team is Shikhar Dhawan and the team coach’s name is Trevor Bayliss. Its home ground name is Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium and the city the team represents is Mohali Punjab.
6- ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE (RCB)—
This team debuted in 2008 owned by United Spirits the captain of this team is Virat Kohli and the team coach’s name is Sanjay Bangar. Its home ground Stadium’s name is Chinnaswamy Stadium and the city this team represents is Karnataka.
7-RAJASTHAN ROYALS (RR)—
·This team debuted in 2013 owned by Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch andGerry Cardinale and the captain of this team is Sanju Samson and the team coach’s name is Kumar Sangakkara. Its home ground name is Sawai Mansingh Stadium and the city this team represents is Jaipur Rajasthan.
8-SUNRISERS HYDERABAD-
This team debuted in 2013 owned by Kalanithi Maran the captain of this team is Aiden Markram and the team coach’s name is Brian Lara. Its home ground name is Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium and the city this team represents is Hyderabad, Telangana.
9-GUJRAT TITANS (GT)—
This team debuted in 2013 owned by Steve Koltes and Donald Mackenzie
The captain of this team is Hardik Pandeya and the team coach’s name is Ashish Nehra. Its home ground name is Narendra Modi Stadium and the city this team represents is Ahmedabad Gujarat.
10-LUCKNOW SUPERGIANTS (LSC)—
This team debuted in 2022 owned by Sanjeev Goenka the captain of this team is KL Rahul and the team coach’s name is Andy Flower. Its home ground name is BRS ABV Ekana Cricket Stadium and the city this team represents in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
There were 5 more dissolve teams which were not playing now because of some issues those teams’ names are — Deccan Chargers, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Pune Warriors India, Gujarat Lions, Rising Pune Supergiant.

































