*****IPL 2019 OFFICIAL THREAD******

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6 minutes ago, CricPokChic said:

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Sold players

Hanuma Vihari (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 2 crores

Shimron Hetmyer (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 4.2 crores

Carlos Brathwaite (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 5 crores

Gurkeerat Singh Mann (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 50 lakhs

Moises Henriques (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 1 crore

Axar Patel (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 5 crores

Jonny Bairstow (Base price INR 1.5 crores) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 2.2 crores

Nicholas Pooran (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 4.2 crores

Wriddhiman Saha (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 1.2 crores

Jaydev Unadkat (Base price INR 1.5 crore) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 8.4 crores

Ishant Sharma (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 1.1 crores

Lasith Malinga (Base price INR 2 crores) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 2 crores

Mohammed Shami (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 4.8 crores

Varun Aaron (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 2.4 crores

Mohit Sharma (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Chennai Super Kings for INR 5 crores

Devdutt Padikkal (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 20 lakhs

Anmolpreet Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 80 lakhs

Sarfaraz Khan (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 25 lakhs

Shivam Dube (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 5 crores

Varun Chakravarthy (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 8.4 crores

Ankush Bains (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhs

Nathu Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhs

Colin Ingram (Base price INR 2 crores) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 6.40 crores

Sam Curran (Base price INR 2 crores) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 7.2 crores

Heinrich Klaasen (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 50 lakhs

Barinder Sran (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 3.4 crore

Lockie Ferguson (Base price 1 crore) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 1.6 crores

Sherfane Rutherford (Base price INR 40 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 2 crores

Andrich Nortje (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhs

Oshane Thomas (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for 1.1 crores

Hardus Viljoen (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 75 lakhs

Himmat Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 65 lakhs

Nikhil Naik (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhs

Arshdeep Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhs

Harry Gurney (Base price INR 75 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 75 lakhs

Pankaj Jaiswal (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 20 lakhs

Milind Kumar (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 20 lakhs

Darshan Nalkande (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 30 lakhs

Shashank Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 30 lakhs

Simran Singh (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 4.8 crores

Rasik Dhar (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 20 lakhs

Prithvi Raj Yarra (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhs

Liam Livingstone (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 50 lakhs

Keemo Paul (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 50 lakhs

Prayas Ray Barman (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 1.5 crore

Agnivesh Ayachi (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhs

Harpreet Brar (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhs

Martin Guptill (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 1 crore - re-presented in accelerated auction

Yuvraj Singh (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Mumbai Indians for INR 1 crore - re-presented in accelerated auction

Akshdeep Nath (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 3.6 crores - re-presented in accelerated auction

Jalaj Saxena (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhs - re-presented in accelerated auction

M Ashwin (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kings XI Punjab for INR 20 lakhs - re-presented in accelerated auction

Ruturaj Gaikwad (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Chennai Super Kings for INR 20 lakhs

Shubham Ranjane (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 20 lakhs - re-presented in accelerated auction

Joe Denly (Base price INR 1 crore) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 1 crore - re-presented in accelerated auction

B Ayyappa (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Delhi Capitals for INR 20 lakhs

Shrikant Mundhe (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 20 lakhs - re-presented in accelerated auction

Manan Vohra (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 20 lakhs - re-presented in accelerated auction

Ashton Turner (Base price INR 50 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 50 lakhs - re-presented in accelerated auction

Riyan Parag (Base price INR 20 lakhs) sold to Rajasthan Royals for INR 20 lakhs

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Chennai Super Kings

 

 Chennai Super Kings

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Mohit Sharma	Bowler	₹5,00,00,000
Ruturaj Gaikwad	Batsman	₹20,00,000

Delhi Capitals

 

 Delhi Capitals

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Colin Ingram	Batsman	₹6,40,00,000
Axar Rajesh Patel	All-Rounder	₹5,00,00,000
Hanuma Vihari	Batsman	₹2,00,00,000
Sherfane Rutherford	All-Rounder	₹2,00,00,000
Ishant Sharma	Bowler	₹1,10,00,000
Keemo Paul	All-Rounder	₹50,00,000
Jalaj Saxena	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000
Ankush Bains	Wicket Keeper	₹20,00,000
Nathu Singh	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Bandaru Ayyappa	Bowler	₹20,00,000

Kings XI Punjab

 

 Kings XI Punjab

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Varun Chakaravarthy	All-Rounder	₹8,40,00,000
Sam Curran	All-Rounder	₹7,20,00,000
Mohammad Shami	Bowler	₹4,80,00,000
Prabhsimran Singh	Wicket Keeper	₹4,80,00,000
Nicolas Pooran	Wicket Keeper	₹4,20,00,000
Moises Henriques	All-Rounder	₹1,00,00,000
Hardus Viljoen	Bowler	₹75,00,000
Darshan Nalkande	All-Rounder	₹30,00,000
Sarfaraz Naushad Khan	All-Rounder	₹25,00,000
Arshdeep Singh	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Agnivesh Ayachi	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000
Harpreet Brar	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000
M. Ashwin	Bowler	₹20,00,000

Kolkata Knight Riders

 

 Kolkata Knight Riders

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Carlos Brathwaite	All-Rounder	₹5,00,00,000
Lockie Ferguson	Bowler	₹1,60,00,000
Joe Denly	Batsman	₹1,00,00,000
Harry Gurney	Bowler	₹75,00,000
Nikhil Shankar Naik	Wicket Keeper	₹20,00,000
Shrikant Mundhe	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000
Prithvi Raj Yarra	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Anrich Nortje	Bowler	₹20,00,000

Mumbai Indians

 

 Mumbai Indians

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Barinder Singh Sran	Bowler	₹3,40,00,000
Lasith Malinga	Bowler	₹2,00,00,000
Yuvraj Singh	All-Rounder	₹1,00,00,000
Anmolpreet Singh	Batsman	₹80,00,000
Pankaj Jaswal	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000
Rasikh Dar	Bowler	₹20,00,000

Rajasthan Royals

 

 Rajasthan Royals

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Jaydev Unadkat	Bowler	₹8,40,00,000
Varun Aaron	Bowler	₹2,40,00,000
Oshane Thomas	Bowler	₹1,10,00,000
Ashton Turner	All-Rounder	₹50,00,000
Liam Livingstone	All-Rounder	₹50,00,000
Shashank Singh	All-Rounder	₹30,00,000
Riyan Parag	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000
Manan Vohra	Batsman	₹20,00,000
Shubham Ranjane	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000

Royal Challengers Bangalore

 

 Royal Challengers Bangalore

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Shivam Dube	All-Rounder	₹5,00,00,000
Shimron Hetmyer	Batsman	₹4,20,00,000
Akshdeep Nath	All-Rounder	₹3,60,00,000
Prayas Ray Barman	All-Rounder	₹1,50,00,000
Himmat Singh	Batsman	₹65,00,000
Gurkeerat Singh Mann	All-Rounder	₹50,00,000
Heinrich Klaasen	Wicket Keeper	₹50,00,000
Devdutt Padikkal	Batsman	₹20,00,000
Milind Kumar	All-Rounder	₹20,00,000

Sunrisers Hyderabad

 

 Sunrisers Hyderabad

PLAYER	TYPE	PRICE PAID
Jonny Bairstow	Wicket Keeper	₹2,20,00,000
Wriddhiman Saha	Wicket Keeper	₹1,20,00,000
Martin Guptill	Batsman	₹1,00,00,000

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IPL 2019 squads so far

 

 

Chennai Super Kings

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
R Gaikwad*	R Jadeja	Mitchell Santner	Mohit Sharma*
MS Dhoni (wk)	David Willey	Imran Tahir	Lungi Ngidi
Suresh Raina	Dwayne Bravo	Harbhajan Singh	Deepak Chahar
Faf du Plessis	Shane Watson	Karn Sharma	KM Asif
M Vijay	Kedar Jadhav		Shardul Thakur
Sam Billings (wk)	C Bishnoi		Monu Kumar
Ambati Rayudu
Dhruv Shorey
N Jagadeesan (wk)

 

 

Delhi Capitals

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
A Bains (wk)*	Jalaj Saxena*	Amit Mishra	B Ayyappa*
Hanuma Vihari*	Keemo Paul*	Rahul Tewatia	Nathu Singh*
Shreyas Iyer	S Rutherford*	Jayant Yadav	Ishant Sharma*
Shikhar Dhawan	Colin Ingram*	S Lamichhane	Avesh Khan
Rishabh Pant (wk)	Axar Patel*		Kagiso Rabada
Prithvi Shaw	Harshal Patel		Trent Boult
Colin Munro	Manjot Kalra
	Chris Morris

 

 

Kings XI Punjab

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
Simran Singh (wk)*	Harpreet Brar*	M Ashwin*	Arshdeep Singh*
Sarfaraz Khan*	Agnivesh Ayachi*	Mujeeb	Hardus Vilojen*
N Pooran (wk)*	D Nalkande*	R Ashwin	Mohammed Shami*
Lokesh Rahul (wk)	Sam Curran*		Andrew Tye
Chris Gayle	V Chakaravarthy*		Ankit Rajpoot
Mayank Agarwal	Moises Henriques*
Karun Nair
David Miller
Mandeep Singh

 

 

Kolkata Knight Riders

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
Joe Denly*	S Mundhe*	Piyush Chawla	Prithvi Raj Yarra*
Nikhil Naik (wk)*	C Brathwaite*	Kuldeep Yadav	Harry Gurney*
Dinesh Karthik (wk)	Andre Russell		Anrich Nortje*
Robin Uthappa (wk)	Sunil Narine		Lockie Ferguson*
Chris Lynn	Nitish Rana		Prasidh Krishna
Shubman Gill			Shivam Mavi
Rinku Singh			Kamlesh Nagarkoti

 

 

Mumbai Indians

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
Yuvraj Singh*	P Jaswal*	M Markande	Rasikh Dar*
Anmolpreet Singh*	Hardik Pandya	Rahul Chahar	Barinder Sran*
Rohit Sharma	Krunal Pandya		Lasith Malinga*
Ishan Kishan (wk)	Anukul Roy		Jasprit Bumrah
Suryakumar Yadav	Kieron Pollard		M McClenaghan
Siddhesh Lad	Ben Cutting		Adam Milne
Aditya Tare (wk)			Jason Behrendorff
Evin Lewis
Q de Kock (wk)

 

 

Rajasthan Royals

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
Manan Vohra*	Riyan Parag*	Ish Sodhi	Oshane Thomas*
Ajinkya Rahane	Ashton Turner*	M Lomror	Varun Aaron*
Sanju Samson (wk)	S Ranjane*		Jaydev Unadkat*
Aryaman Birla	L Livingstone*		Dhawal Kulkarni
Prashant Chopra	Shashank Singh*		S. Midhun
Rahul Tripathi	K Gowtham
Steven Smith	Shreyas Gopal
Jos Buttler (wk)	Stuart Binny
	Ben Stokes
	Jofra Archer

 

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
Himmat Singh*	A Nath*	Y Chahal	N Coulter-Nile
H Klaasen (wk)*	P Barman*		Mohammed Siraj
D Padikkal*	Milind Kumar*		Tim Southee
Shimron Hetmyer*	Shivam Dube*		Umesh Yadav
Virat Kohli	Gurkeerat Singh*		Navdeep Saini
AB de Villiers	W Sundar		Kulwant Khejroliya
Parthiv Patel (wk)	Pawan Negi
	Moeen Ali
	C de Grandhomme
	Marcus Stoinis

 

 

Sunrisers Hyderabad

 

 

Batsmen	Allrounders	Spinners	Pacers
Martin Guptill*	Yusuf Pathan	Rashid Khan	Bhuvneshwar Kumar
W Saha (wk)*	Shakib Al Hasan	S Nadeem	Sandeep Sharma
J Bairstow (wk)*	Mohammad Nabi		T Natarajan
Kane Williamson	Abhishek Sharma		Siddarth Kaul
David Warner	Vijay Shankar		Khaleel Ahmed
Manish Pandey			Billy Stanlake
Deepak Hooda			Basil Thampi
Ricky Bhui
S Goswami (wk)

 

(Note: * denotes players bought in auction)

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Possible playing 11's for all the teams....

MI	SRH	DC	RR	CSK	KXIP	KKR	RCB
Decock/Lewis	Warner/Guptill/Bairstow	Dhawan	Buttler	Watson	Gayle	Narine	Parthiv patel/Moeen Ali
Rohit	Williamson	Shaw	Rahane	Rayudu	Rahul	Lynn	Kohli
Ishan kishan	Manish	Munro/Ingram	Smith	Raina	Karun Nair	Uthappa	ABD
Surya	Yousuf Pathan/Saha	Iyer	Samson	Faf	Mayank Agarwal	Rana	Hetmyer
Cutting/Pollard/Yuvraj	Shakib/Nabi	Pant	Stokes	Dhoni	Miller/Pooran/Curran	Dinesh Karthik	Stoinis/CDG
Krunal	Hooda	Morris	Tripathi/Vohra	Kedar	Mandeep/Sarfaraz	Gill	Shivam Dube
Hardik	Vijay shankar	Tewatia/Harshal/Vihari	Gowtham	Bravo	Ashwin	Russell	Sundar/Himmat/Nath
Markande	Rashid	Axar	Sodhi/Gopal	Jaddu	Tye/Henriques	Brathwite/Lockie	Negi/Gurkeerat
Behendroff/McClenaghan/Milne	Bhuvi	Mishra	Unadkat	Karn/Bhajji	Chakravarthy/M Ashwin	Mavi/Nagarkoti	Coulternile/Southee/Siraj
Sran/Malinga	Khaleel	Rabada	Archer	Ngidi/Tahir	Rajpoot/Shami	Chawla/Prasidh	Chahal
Bumrah	Kaul	Boult/Ishant	Kukarni/Aaron/Thomas	Chahar/Thakur/Mohit	Mujeeb	Kuldeep	Umesh

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Varun Chakravarthy - Seven variations, one million-dollar package

 

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Had a close look at him last year at CSK nets... This guy Varun Chakravarthy have the potential to play for INDIA.. selectors should keep an eye on him.. he is a fast and furious spin bowler.. another mystery spinner

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Jayant Yadav traded to Mumbai Indians

Delhi Capitals have traded the offspin-bowling allrounder Jayant Yadav to Mumbai Indians. The 28-year old had been part of the Delhi franchise since 2015, and has four wickets from 10 matches in the tournament. With this trade, Mumbai have filled their quota of 25 players, while Delhi now have one place left.

Jayant recently captained the India Emerging Team in Sri Lanka, where he picked up 10 wickets in five games. He was instrumental in taking the side to the final, where he made an 85-ball 71 in a losing cause.

According to a BCCI release, the trading window remains open until 30 days before the start of the tournament.

Mumbai Indians (updated squad): Evin Lewis, Quinton de Kock, Anmolpreet Singh, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, Ishan Kishan, Aditya Tare, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Ben Cutting, Yuvraj Singh, Pankaj Jaiswal, Mayank Markande, Rahul Chahar, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Adam Milne, Mitchell McClenaghan, Jason Behrendorff, Rasikh Salam, Lasith Malinga, Barinder Sran, Jayant Yadav

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22 minutes ago, CricPokChic said:

Jayant Yadav traded to Mumbai Indians

Delhi Capitals have traded the offspin-bowling allrounder Jayant Yadav to Mumbai Indians.

Decent Offie added to MI who were low on spinners...

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3 hours ago, Kool_SRG said:

Decent Offie added to MI who were low on spinners...

do u think he can make the playing 11 with krunal,markande mostly the spinners who will play??

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1 minute ago, CricPokChic said:

do u think he can make the playing 11 with krunal,markande mostly the spinners who will play??

Pretty less chance.. 

[CricPokChic]

11 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Pretty less chance.. 

which team squad looks the best balanced to u?

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Yuvraj Singh being roped in by Mumbai Indians at IPL 2019 auction leaves Sourav Ganguly delighted

 

 

 

 

 

Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly expressed his happiness on social media after Yuvraj Singh was bought by Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. Mumbai bought Yuvraj for Rs 1 crore.

 

Yuvraj Singh went unsold in the IPL 2019 auction despite reducing his base price by Rs 1 crore. Photo Credit (Mumbai Indians/BCCL) 

 

Fans of senior Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh had their hearts in their mouth as the Punjab cricketer went unsold in the first round at the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 auction. Yuvraj, who scored just 65 runs in 8 matches in IPL 2018, was clearly not on the radar of the franchise owners. But Mumbai Indians, three-time IPL champions, threw a lifeline to Yuvraj, as they roped him in at his base price of Rs 1 crore as the event was heading towards its conclusion.

After Yuvraj was bought by Mumbai, team owner Akash Ambani revealed that they had been trying to buy him since ages. As wishes poured in from all corners, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, who played a major role in shaping up Yuvraj’s career, took to Twitter to express his happiness. “Extremely happy to see Yuvraj singh picked by mumbai ...has been a great player for the country in shorter format ..good wishes to him @YUVSTRONG12," Ganguly wrote.

 

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✔@SGanguly99

 

Replying to @StarSportsIndia and 2 others

 

Extremely happy to see Yuvraj singh picked by mumbai ...has been a great player for the country in shorter format ..good wishes to him @YUVSTRONG12

 

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Yuvraj entered the auction after reducing his base price by Rs 1 crore. He was bought by Kings XI Punjab last season and was released ahead of the IPL 12 auction. After sealing the deal, Akash also opined that getting Yuvraj at 1 crore could be Mumbai Indians’ biggest steal in IPL auction history.

"To be honest, we had budgeted a lot more for Yuvraj and Malinga. At Rs one crore, a player like Yuvraj is probably a (biggest) steal of 12 (sic) years. He has won every trophy there is to be won," Ambani told the host broadcaster of the auction.

Yuvraj also took to Twitter to thank Mumbai Indians for buying him at the auction. “I am glad to be part of the @mipaltan family, looking forward for the season to begin. See u soon @ImRo45,” he wrote.

 

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✔@YUVSTRONG12

 

 

I am glad to be part of the @mipaltan family, looking forward for the season to begin. See u soon @ImRo45

 

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The IPL 2019 auction was another action-packed event where Jaydev Unadkat (sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 8. 4 cr) and Varun Chakravarty (sold to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 8. 4 cr) emerged as the most expensive Indian players. Among overseas buys, the in-form English all-rounder Sam Curran was bought by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 7.2 crore.

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IPL 2019: BCCI mulls organising tournament overseas

IPL scheduling in fix

The schedule and venues of the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be finalised only after the schedule for the 2019 general elections are announced, even as the Indian cricket board is considering various scenarios and options for its cash-rich property.Among the four options, looked at by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), are advancing the event to March-April and holding it outside the country.The schedule and venues of the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be finalised only after the schedule for the 2019 general elections are announced, even as the Indian cricket board is considering various scenarios and options for its cash-rich property.Among the four options, looked at by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), are advancing the event to March-April and holding it outside the country.

 

Going overseas again?

“While the effort is to keep the entire tourney in India, a lot will depend on the dates of the general elections,” accoding to a BCCI insider.The four options being considered by the board are: a caravan format — where all the teams travel together to all the venues — with 5-8 venues for a total of 60 matches; organising matches in smaller and non-conflicted stadiums within the country; holding some matches in India and rest in the UAE (like in 2014); and, holding the entire tourney in South Africa (like in 2009).

 

Can be held before LS polls

Initially, IPL 2019 was expected to be sandwiched between the elections and the ICC World Cup in England starting on May 30. But now there is a proposal to hold it earlier, before the elections.“We are also planning to advance the whole league to March-April, like in 2010 so that it can finish ahead of elections and there is a good rest period for the players before ICC World Cup,” one of the sources said.

 

When IPL went overseas

In the past, during the previous two general elections, IPL had to move out of India as the governments refused to provide security cover.While the entire tournament was shifted to South Africa in 2009, in 2014, the first 20 matches were held in the United Arab Emirates at three different stadiums in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, and the remaining matches were held in India from May 2, after the elections.

 

Sponsorship concerns loom large

“Sponsorship strategy is based on the teams’ home games,” said R Ramakrishnan, cofounder at sports marketing firm Baseline Ventures. “Various team sponsors sign the deals, not just to get logo visibility but also to have onground activations, including dealer engagements. If the league moves out of India, these activations can’t be done. Mostly the jersey sponsors get visibility in home matches, so first preference will always be the existing homeand-away format,” he said.BCCI will have to underwrite the loss of ticketing revenue to franchises in case the tournament moves out of India.

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sarfaraz khan lolllll