IPL - A Sneak Peek

• IPL - Indian Premier League - A Twenty20 cricket tournament created by BCCI and sanctioned by ICC
• Commences on April 18, 2008
• Spans for 44 days involving 59 matches
• Pool of 16 players in each team
• Max of 8 foreign players, 4 under 22 players, 4 players from the particular state team they represent/are based
• The Biggies to watch (for more # of big hits) - MS Dhoni, Symmonds, Gayle, Afridi, Styris, Yuvraj, Gibbs and Gilchrist
• The Leads - Dravid, Sachin, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Sehwag, Laxman, Ganguly, Kaif
• The Coaches - Prasad, Robin Singh, John Buchanan, Greg Chapell, Tom Moody
• The team that won the highest bid - Kolkata
• The player who won the highest bid - Our Jharkand star 'Dhoni'
• The Franchise Owners - Vijay Mallya, Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Ness Wadia, Priety Zinta, Mukesh Ambani

Twenty 20 matches are always fun and interesting...When Yuvi's 6's are still lingering in most of our minds, this is another set of matches filled with thrill, fun, frustratation and mixed feelings. But this is going to be different as most of our Indian players compete each other under different teams. Will IPL make a big impact in the cricket arena? We'll see what happens...