The BCCI-powered Indian Premier League's(IPL) franchises on Thursday sold out with Bollywood stars, entrepreneurs and business houses alike pumping in as much as Rs 7,000 crore for its eight teams.
IPL team owners:
Mumbai - Mukesh Ambani - $111.9 million
Bangalore - Vijay Mallya - $111.6 million
Chennai - India Cement - $91 million
Delhi - GMR Holdings - $84 million
Mohali - Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia - $76 million
Kolkata - Shahrukh Khan - $75.09 million
Jaipur - Emerging Media - $67 million
Hyderabad - Deccan Chronicle - $107.01 million
The league is scheduled to start in April 2008 and will last for 44 days, involving 59 matches. The prize money for the league will be around Rs 13 crore (US $3million).
Each team will have a pool of 16 players, of whom four will be international and four from the Under-19 level or from the catchment area where the team is based.
Sony Television network and Singapore-based World Sports Group secured the rights of the IPL. The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US$1.026 billion.
The following cricketers have already committed to the IPL:
India: Ajit Agarkar, S Badrinath, Piyush Chawla, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Sourav Ganguly, Wasim Jaffer, Mohammad Kaif, Dinesh Karthik, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman, Munaf Patel, Parthiv Patel, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Ramesh Powar, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag, Joginder Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, Robin Uthappa.
* Rahul Dravid (rumoured to captain the Bangalore Franchise)
* Sourav Ganguly (rumoured to captain the Kolkata Franchise)
* Sachin Tendulkar (rumoured to captain the Mumbai Franchise)
* Yuvraj Singh (rumoured to captain the Mohali Franchise)
Australia: Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee, Matthew Hayden, Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich, Jason Gillespie, Cameron White.
Pakistan: Shoaib Malik, Mohammed Yousuf, Shoaib Akthar, Younis Khan, Mohammed Asif, Shahid Afridi.
Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene, Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Zoysa, Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Farveez Maharoof, Dilhara Fernando.
South Africa: Graeme Smith, Ashwell Prince, Herschelle Gibbs, Albie Morkel, AB de Villiers, Shaun Pollock, Loots Bosman, Jacques Kallis, Makhaya Ntini.
New Zealand: Stephen Fleming, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Daniel Vettori, Scott Styris.
West Indies: Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Chris Gayle.
IPL coup gets BCCI richer by Rs 7000 crore
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It's the picture that ET believers have been waiting for - and the one that shows there could be life on Mars.
The image, taken by Nasa's Mars Explorer Spirit, seems to show a figure on the surface of the red planet.
However the more sceptical have decided that it is just a rock.
At first astronomers were disappointed with pictures sent back from the surface of the Red Planet by the six-wheel robot four years ago.
But a space fan spotted the figure, which was just a pinprick in the original photograph. It was blown up and posted on a website.
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