IPL 2011

The IPL(Indian Premier League) was a conventional approach by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) in the year 2007. This form of league brought a revolution in Indian Cricket and now it is extended to this year 2011. IPL season 4 or IPL 2011 has entered its domain this year with the auction of players from all around the world. 

IPL 2011 is Indian Premiere League season 4 played at India.IPL 2011 is eagerly awaited as IPL 2010 was a massive hit. IPL season 3 had total 8 teams playing against each other but IPL 4 have 10 teams competing each other .

IPL 4th edition is going to be much different from other.Many people will be looking forward to IPL 2011 as the next season to cheer for after all that happened during IPL 2010 The tournament will start with the game between Team Chennai Super Kings(CSK) and Kolkata Knight Riders(KKR) on Aprial 8th at Chepauk Stadium,Chennai and tournament will ends with the Final on May 28 at Chepauk Stadium,Chennai. There will be total 10 venues will be used for the tournament. Indi Commandos Kerala and Pune Warriors are the 2 new teams introduces this year in IPL 4.

Total of 74 competitions will be viewed this season as there were 2 new teams introduced in IPL 2011. In the previous season there were 60 Matches and this season the number has drastically increased as the teams will play against each other in a dual Round-Robin format. The playoff is a new format initiated instead of Knockout. Super Over will be determining the winner incase of a tie. The top 3 teams from playoff will succeed for the next 2011 Champions League Twenty20.

30 Players has been included in each team with 9 million US dollar as a maximum to spend for the purchasing. The previous teams in the IPL 3 were dispersed as 2 new teams were included in this season. Each team had the capability to retain 4 players from their previous squad, with 3 Indian Players.

Live Auction

Team	Price
Chennai Super Kings	MS Dhoni (retained), Suresh Raina (retained), Murali Vijay (retained), Albie Morkel (retained), S Badrinath ($850,000), Michael Hussey ($425,000), Dwayne Bravo ($200,00), R Ashwin ($850,000),Doug Bollinger ($700,000),  Aaron Finch ($300,000), Scott Styris ($200,000), Ben Hilfenhaus ($100,000), Joginder Sharma ($150,000), Nuwan Kulasekera ($100,000), Sudeep Tyagi ($240,000), Suraj Randiv ($80,000), George Bailey ($50,000), du Plessis ($120,000),W Saha ($100,000)
Deccan Chargers	Kumar Sangakkara ($700,000),Cameron White ($1.1 million),Kevin Pietersen ($650,000),Daniel Christian ($900,000), JP Duminy ($300,000), Shikhar Dhawan ($300,000), Ishant Sharma ($450,000), Dale Steyn ($1.2 million), Pragyan Ojha ($500,000), Amit Mishra ($300,000),Manpreet Gony ($290,000),  Juan Theron ($85,000), Michael Lumb ($80,000),Chris Lynn ($20,000)
Delhi Daredevils	Virender Sehwag (retained), Irfan Pathan ($1.9 million), Dave Warner ($750,000), Naman Ojha ($270,000), James Hopes ($350,000), Morne Morkel ($4750,000), Ajit Agarkar ($210,000), Matthew Wade ($100,000), Umesh Yadav ($750,000),Ashok Dinda ($375,000),  Roelof van der Merwe ($50,000), Venugopal Rao ($700,000), Andrew McDonald ($80,000), Travis Birt ($20,000), Colin Ingram ($100,000), Robert Frylinck ($20,000)
Kings XI Punjab	Adam Gilchrist ($900,000), David Hussey ($1.4 million), Dinesh Karthik ($900,000),Abhishek Nayar ($800,000), Stuart Broad ($400,000),  Praveen Kumar ($800,000), Piyush Chawla ($900,000),Ryan Harris ($325,000),  Dimitri Mascarenhas ($100,000), Nathan Rimmington ($20,000)
Kochi	Mahela Jayawardene ($1.5 million), Brendon McCullum ($475,000), S Sreesanth ($900,000), RP Singh ($500,000),Muthiah Muralitharan ($1.1 million),  Laxman (400,000), Parthiv Patel ($290,000),Vinay Kumar ($475,000), Ravindra Jadeja ($950,000), Steven Smith ($200,000), Ramesh Powar ($180,000), Brad Hodge ($425,000), Thisara Perera ($80,000),  Steve O’Keefe ($20,000), Owais Shah ($200,000), Michael Klinger ($75,000), John Hastings ($20,000)
Kolkata Knight Riders	Gautam Gambhir ($2.4 million), Yusuf Pathan ($2.1 million), Jacques Kallis ($1.1 million), Shakib al Hasan ($425,000),Brad Haddin ($325,000), Brett Lee ($400,000), Manoj Tiwary ($475,000),Eoin Morgan ($350,000), L Balaji ($500,000), Jaidev Unadkat ($250,000), Ryan ten Doeschate ($150,000), James Pattinson ($100,000)
Mumbai Indians	Sachin Tendulkar (retained), Harbhajan Singh (retained), Lasith Malinga (retained), Kieron Pollard (retained), Rohit Sharma ($2 million), Andrew Symonds ($850,000), David Jacobs ($190,000), Munaf Patel ($700,000),Clint McKay ($110,000),James Franklin ($100,000),   Moises Henriques ($50,000), Adrian Blizzard ($20,000)
Pune Warriors	Yuvraj Singh ($1.8 million), Robin Uthappa ($2.1 million),Graeme Smith ($500,000), Angelo Matthews ($950,000), Tim Paine ($270,000), Ashish Nehra ($850,000), Nathan McCullum ($100,000), Callum Ferguson ($300,000), Wayne Parnell ($160,000), Mitchell Marsh ($290,000), Jerome Taylor ($10,000), Alfonso Thomas ($100,000), Jesse Ryder ($150,000), Murali Kartik ($400,000)
Rajasthan Royals	Shane Warne (retained), Shane Watson (retained), Ross Taylor ($1 million), Johan Botha (950,000), Rahul Dravid ($500,000),Paul Collingwood ($250,000), Shaun Tait ($300,000), Pankaj Singh ($90,000)
Royal Challengers Bangalore	Virat Kohli (retained),Daniel Vettori ($550,000),Zaheer Khan ($900,000), T Dilshan ($650,000), AB de Villiers ($1.1 million), Saurabh Tiwary ($1.6 million), Dirk Nannes ($650,000), Cheteshwar Pujara ($700,000), Charl Langeveldt ($100,000), Luke Pomersbach ($50,000), Abhimanyu Mithun ($260,000), Johan van der Wath ($50,000), Nuwan Pradeep ($20,000), Rilee Roussouw ($20,000), Jonathon Vandiar ($20,000), Mohammad Kaif ($130,000)
Unsold Players(Base Price)	Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Brian Lara, Graham Manou, Matt Prior, Mark Boucher, Luke Wright, Herschelle Gibbs, Dilhara Fernando, James Anderson, Graeme Swann, Murali Kartik, Chamara Kapugedera, Tamim Iqbal