Indian Premier League – Next Level Cricket

Indian Premier League concept has emerged with a 20 over matches across various teams with players from all over world. These series was initiated in the year 2008 by Board of Cricket Control for Cricket in India. A big budget series where in the highest paid cricketers were M.S. Dhoni (Former Captain of Indian Team) and Sachin Tendulkar (Does not need any introduction) from India. This is a yearly series and had Four seasons till now. By far the teams were based on the states and bought by few of the superstars and big business entities.

First season started with a bang and was won by Rajasthan Royals under the captaincy of Shane Warne. This team was called the Underdogs as they were the least hyped with best performance.

            Second series held in 2009 happened in South Africa. This was the most talked about event of twenty-twenty cricket era. Again in India people follow cricket as the religion and for the same reason this series got loads of attentions. Viewers in India and across the globe followed each and every match of the series. This time it was Deccan Chargers a team from South India who won the series. Adam Gilchrist was leading the team for this series. Third series was won by Chennai Super Kings with Mahinder Singh Dhoni as the captain for the team in 2010.The 2010 IPL series was played in India. However after the third series the BCCI chief Lalit Modi was in news for quite some time. He was moved out from BCCI. It was around the controversy about two new additions to the series. There were two new teams announced which were Pune and Kochi. Primarily the grapevine was against the money involved and the owners for these new teams. Cricket globally has been in conspiracy yet with maximum viewers and followers across the globe.