Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Indian Premier League Season 2
2009 DLF Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League, Live from South Africa!
March 2009
The 2009 Indian Premier League season will be the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the BCCI in 2007. The second edition is scheduled between April 10 and May 24, 2009. The format of the tournament would remain unchanged from the 2008 season format. The eight franchises will first play against one another in a league on home-and-away basis. The top four teams will then figure in the two semi-finals and a final. The number of international players allowed in any one squad was increased from 8 to 10 although the number allowed in any playing 11 remains at 4. Four new franchises will join the IPL in 2010-11.
The magnitude of the Indian Premier League was confirmed when the winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on January 24, 2008. While the total base price for auction was US$400 million, The auction fetched US$723.59 million.
The official list of franchise
Franchise
Owner
Price
Bangalore
Vijay Mallya / UB group
USD 111.6 million
Chennai
India Cements
USD 91 million
Delhi
GMR group
USD 84 million
Hyderabad
Deccan Chronicle
USD 107 million
Jaipur
Emerging Media
USD 67 million
Kolkatta
Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment in partenship with Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta
USD 75.09 million
Mohali
Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia(Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul ](Apeejay Surendera Group) and Dabur's Mohit Burman
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
