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Indian Premier League (IPL) Schedule-2008

Date	Time(GMT)	Match details	venue
Fri 18	13:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Kolkata, 1st Match	Bangalore (D/N)
Sat 19	09:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Chennai, 2nd Match	Mohali
Sat 19	13:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Jaipur, 3rd Match	Delhi (D/N)
Sun 20	09:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Bangalore, 4th Match	Mumbai
Sun 20	14:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Hyderabad, 5th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Mon 21	14:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Mohali, 6th Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Tue 22	14:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Delhi, 7th Match	Hyderabad (D/N)
Wed 23	14:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Mumbai, 8th Match	Chennai (D/N)
Thu 24	14:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Jaipur, 9th Match	Hyderabad (D/N)
Fri 25	14:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Mumbai, 10th Match	Mohali (D/N)
Sat 26	09:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Jaipur, 11th Match	Bangalore
Sat 26	14:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Kolkata, 12th Match	Chennai (D/N)
Sun 27	09:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Hyderabad, 13th Match	Mumbai
Sun 27	14:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Delhi, 14th Match	Mohali (D/N)
Mon 28	14:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Chennai, 15th Match	Bangalore (D/N)
Tue 29	14:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Mumbai, 16th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Wed 30	14:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Bangalore, 17th Match	Delhi (D/N)
May 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Thu 01	09:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Mohali, 18th Match	Hyderabad
Thu 01	14:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Kolkata, 19th Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Fri 02	13:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Delhi, 20th Match	Chennai (D/N)
Sat 03	09:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Bangalore, 21st Match	Hyderabad
Sat 03	14:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Kolkata, 22nd Match	Mohali (D/N)
Sun 04	09:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Delhi, 23rd Match	Mumbai
Sun 04	14:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Chennai, 24th Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Mon 05	13:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Mohali, 25th Match	Bangalore (D/N)
Tue 06	13:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Hyderabad, 26th Match	Chennai (D/N)
Wed 07	13:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Jaipur, 27th Match	Mumbai (D/N)
Thu 08	09:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Chennai, 28th Match	Delhi
Thu 08	14:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Bangalore, 29th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Fri 09	13:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Hyderabad, 30th Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Sat 10	09:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Mumbai, 31st Match	Bangalore
Sat 10	14:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Mohali, 32nd Match	Chennai (D/N)
Sun 11	09:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Kolkata, 33rd Match	Hyderabad
Sun 11	14:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Delhi, 34th Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Mon 12	13:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Bangalore, 35th Match	Mohali (D/N)
Tue 13	13:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Delhi, 36th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Wed 14	09:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Chennai, 37th Match	Mumbai
Wed 14	14:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Jaipur, 38th Match	Mohali (D/N)
Thu 15	13:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Hyderabad, 39th Match	Delhi (D/N)
Fri 16	13:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Kolkata, 40th Match	Mumbai (D/N)
Sat 17	09:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Mohali, 41st Match	Delhi
Sat 17	14:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Bangalore, 42nd Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Sun 18	09:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Mumbai, 43rd Match	Hyderabad
Sun 18	14:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Chennai, 44th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Mon 19	13:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Delhi, 45th Match	Bangalore (D/N)
Tue 20	13:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Jaipur, 46th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Wed 21	09:30	IPL Mumbai v IPL Mohali, 47th Match	Mumbai
Wed 21	14:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Bangalore, 48th Match	Chennai (D/N)
Thu 22	13:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Kolkata, 49th Match	Delhi (D/N)
Fri 23	13:30	IPL Mohali v IPL Hyderabad, 50th Match	Mohali (D/N)
Sat 24	09:30	IPL Delhi v IPL Mumbai, 51st Match	Delhi
Sat 24	14:30	IPL Chennai v IPL Jaipur, 52nd Match	Chennai (D/N)
Sun 25	09:30	IPL Bangalore v IPL Hyderabad, 53rd Match	Bangalore
Sun 25	14:30	IPL Kolkata v IPL Mohali, 54th Match	Kolkata (D/N)
Mon 26	13:30	IPL Jaipur v IPL Mumbai, 55th Match	Jaipur (D/N)
Tue 27	13:30	IPL Hyderabad v IPL Chennai, 56th Match	Hyderabad (D/N)
Fri 30	14:30 1st Semi Final	Mumbai (D/N)
Sat 31	14:30	2nd Semi Final	Mumbai (D/N)
June 2008
Sun 01	14:30	Final	Mumbai (D/N)

ICC ODI BATSMEN RANKINGS(TOP10)

Rank Player Team Points

1 Graeme Smith South Africa 792

2 MS Dhoni India 773

3 Ricky Ponting Australia 751

4 Michael Hussey Australia 750

5 Shivnarine Chanderpaul West Indies 744

6 Sachin Tendulkar India 743

7 Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan 738

8 AB de Villiers South Africa 733

9 Andrew Symonds Australia 730

10 Kumar Sangakkara Srilanka 729

Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals is the franchise that will represent the city of Jaipur and the state of Rajasthan[original research?] in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led and coached by Shane Warne. There is no Icon Player for the team. This is the only IPL team to have a foreign captain and playing coach. The Rajasthan Royals franchise is owned by Emerging Media group. The group acquired the franchise for $67 million.

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians will be representative of the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sachin Tendulkar, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by Lalchand Rajput, the former Manager of the Indian Cricket Team. Reliance Industries Limited through its subsidiary Reliance Retail Ltd purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier league for a total of $111.9 million during the auction on January 24, 2008. The RIL bid has made the Mumbai Indians the most expensive franchise in IPL. More...

Kings XI Punjab

Kings XI Punjab is a sports franchise based in Mohali in the eight team Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Yuvraj Singh who is also the Icon Player and coached by Tom Moody, the former Aussie all rounder. A blend of youth and experience, Kings XI Punjab is the youngest team with a core group of all-rounders. With eight proven international and eighteen domestic players, the team boasts of experience, leadership and talent. Positioning itself as a people-driven and community-led team, Kings XI Punjab will create and promote community-centric activities like the Golden Ticket initiative, Scholarship. The owners of the franchise include Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur). The group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise. More...

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders is the franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sourav Ganguly, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by John Buchanan. The name of the team was revealed on March 10, 2008 with an official team unveiling ceremony on March 11, 2008. The official theme of the team is Korbo, Lorbo, Jitbo Re (We will do it, Fight for it, Win it) and the official colours are black and gold. Kolkata Knight Riders is a franchise of the eight team Indian Premier League. It was bought on January 24, 2008 by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with Juhi Chawla and her husband, Jai Mehta. More...

Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers is the franchise that will represent the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by V.V.S. Laxman and coached by Robin Singh, presently the fielding coach of the Indian cricket team. There is no Icon Player for the team. The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle. The media group acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million on January 24, 2008. Group M later picked a 20 percent stake in Hyderabad IPL team. More...

Delhi DareDevils

Delhi DareDevils is the Delhi franchise for the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by the GMR Group. The team will be captained by Virender Sehwag, who is also the designated the Icon Player for the franchise. During the franchise auction for the Indian Premier League teams GMR group acquired the rights for the Delhi franchise for $84 million. More...

CHENNAI

Chennai Super Kings
Chennai Super Kings is the Chennai franchise for the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest-paid IPL Player, and coached by Kepler Wessels. There is no Icon Player for the team. Chennai Super Kings are a part of the eight club Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by India Cements, who paid $91 million to acquire the rights of the franchise for the next 10 years. Former India test player Kris Srikkanth is the brand ambassador for the franchise, and another former Indian opener V. B. Chandrasekhar will be the chief selector. More...

BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bangalore Royal Challengers is the team that is going to represent the city of Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, the inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament to be held in India. The team is owned by the liquor magnate Vijay Mallya, the chairman of UB Group. Charu Sharma is the CEO of the team and Rahul Dravid, the captain of the team is the Icon Player. Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has also been signed as a member of the management team. Venkatesh Prasad, the former Indian fast bowler and the present bowling coach of India has been declared the coach for the team. More...

ABOUT IPL

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) launches its first Professional venture in the form of Twenty20 league, which will be called ‘Indian Premier League’ (IPL). With this announcement the Board has definitely called the shots in reply to Zee group’s promoted Indian Cricket League (ICL). This new concept was made public among the hot shots of World cricket at a press conference.
The launch has been attended by all the members of Test playing nations including ICC President Ray Malli, Indian cricket stars Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble and Skipper Rahul Dravid. New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming along with Australia’s Glen Mcgrath and Shane Warne were also present on the occasion. They have confirmed their association with the league.
According to the BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi the IPL will work in a similar pattern to Britain’s English Premiership League where clubs will be the franchisees of BCCI and players of the said clubs will be sold and purchased like any professional club. BCCI has penned down a draft and format of the IPL.
Eight clubs will play in the IPL’s first season, starting in April 2008 next year, with a tournament among the clubs which will last for 44 days and all the matches would be played on home and away basis. A total of 59 matches will be played with 177 hours of entertainment with a Super Saturday in which both the semi-finals and the final will be played on the very same day. The total prize money for Indian Premier League will be $3 million.
Its final leg will be called ‘Champions Twenty20 League’ and all the finalists from across the World will play in this Champions League. The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get $5 million, highest ever for a cricket event.
The league will be run by separate Governing body which will independently manage the affairs of the IPL, which comprises IS Bindra, Chirayu Ameen, Arun Jaitly, Rajeev Shukla, MAK Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar Ravi Shastri and Lalit Modi as their members. The integration of accounts of IPL will be done on annual basis. There will be separate office for the IPL at the MCA’s newly constructed Cricket House.
The Champions Twenty20 league is slated to be played in the first week of October 2008. The aim of the league is to revitalize domestic cricket. Apart from India, Six domestic teams from three nations have confirmed their participation in the first Twenty20 League which included Australia, England and South Africa.
All these things will be run under the rules and regulations of BCCI. There are certain mandatory guidelines for the franchisees to follow:
Clubs (Franchisee) should have their home ground
Each club can have a maximum pool of 16 players
Clubs must have four Under-21 youth players in their Pool of 16
Four players must belong to the territory where club was located or instituted
Each foreign player will be named ‘designated player’ and will be purchased through open bidding among the clubs for their next season
All the matches will be played under floodlights
An Inter and Intra division should be played among the said clubs
Intra division matches would be played on weekends while inter division matches will be played on weekdays. The clubs will be formed by the BCCI and the franchisees have to pay the Board to form a club. There will be two divisions for the franchisees namely South and North. All the franchisees will be given territorial exclusivity so that nobody can interfere in their own area regarding player’s registration etc. The last but not the least as all the matches will be played under the rules and regulations of ICC.

INDIAN CRICKET SCHEDULE

India in Sri Lanka

Date Start time Match Venue
July 18-20 10:30 IST Practice match Colombo
July 23-27 10:30 IST First Test Colombo
July 31 - Aug4 10:30 IST Second Test Galle
Aug 8-12 10:30 IST Third Test Colombo
Aug 15 10:00 IST Practice match Colombo
Aug 18 10:00 IST First ODI Dambulla
Aug 20 10:00 IST Second ODI Dambulla
Aug 24 14:30 IST Third ODI (D/N) Colombo
Aug 26 14:30 IST Fourth ODI (D/N) Colombo
Aug 29 14:30 IST Fifth ODI (D/N) Colombo

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Beginning of first-class cricket in india

In 1864, a Madras v. Calcutta match was arguably the start of first-class cricket in India.

The most important fixture in the 19th century was the Bombay Presidency Match which evolved, first, into the Bombay Triangular and then into the bombay quadrangular. The match was first played in 1877 and then intermittently for several seasons until finally being given first-class status in 1892-93.

An English team led by George Vernon in 1889-90 was the first foreign team to tour India but none of the matches that it played are considered first-class.

First-class cricket definitely began in the 1892-93 season with two Europeans v Parsees matches at Bombay (match drawn) and Poona (Parsees won by 3 wickets). In the same season, Lord Hawke captained an English team that played four first-class matches including a game against "All India" on 26-28 January 1893.

Beginning of first-class cricket

In 1864, a Madras v. Calcutta match was arguably the start of first-class cricket in India.

The most important fixture in the 19th century was the Bombay Presidency Match which evolved, first, into the Bombay Triangular and then into the bombay quadrangular. The match was first played in 1877 and then intermittently for several seasons until finally being given first-class status in 1892-93.

An English team led by George Vernon in 1889-90 was the first foreign team to tour India but none of the matches that it played are considered first-class.

First-class cricket definitely began in the 1892-93 season with two Europeans v Parsees matches at Bombay (match drawn) and Poona (Parsees won by 3 wickets). In the same season, Lord Hawke captained an English team that played four first-class matches including a game against "All India" on 26-28 January 1893.

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