IPL 4 Revised Schedule: Assembly elections changed Schedule

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has modified the cricket events’ schedule of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for 2011 year due to upcoming Assembly elections of five states in the country. According to IPL 4 revised schedule, matches will be started from April 8, 2011.

Reasons of why Shahrukh chooses ten Doeschate

Ryan ten Doeschate is a Netherlands cricket team’s aggressive all-rounder. Currently, he becomes a most successful all-rounder of ODI matches with highest career batting average 71.21 of 28 matches after striking century against a world’s fifth rank ODI cricket team England in the world cup. So now everyone's doubt is cleared that why Shahrukh Khan chose Ryan ten Doeschate for Kolkata Knight Riders team. Prefer this article to know about reasons of why Shahrukh chooses ten Doeschate.

Ryan Neil ten Doeschate is full name of Ryan ten Doeschate, who born at South Africa. He is attacking batsman as well as medium-fast bowler. Perhaps for this reason, the owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team, Shahrukh Khan put his choice on ten Doeschate for his 2011 IPL squad.

IPL Vs World Cup - Battle for ads

High admired two cricket events, IPL (Indian Premier League) season 4 and ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 are on doorstep to hit on the field, but before that, both events are on field for ads' battle. Advertisers cunfuse to invest for which events because it is not possible for any advertiser to invest on both cricket events.

The World Cup 2011 will kick off on 19 February 2011 and after just five days of world cup final the IPL season 4 will begin on April 8. In the World cup, total 49 matches will be played and in IPL 4 first time total 10 teams will play total 74 matches. The combined advertising funds of ICC World Cup and IPL may be Rs. 1,500 to 1700 crore.

IPL fans wait for IPL 2011 Schedule but no Declaration yet!

IPL crickets fans are really disappointing as there isn't any schedule (timetable) announcement yet. Let's see how many days the IPL cricket board will take for announcement of IPL 2011 Schedule.

The IPL season 4 promises to be more exciting than previous seassons. The fourth season of the IPL will start on 8th April, just few days after the ending of the ICC World Cup 2011 and end on 22nd May. Thus, IPL 2011 has 44 days time span in comparison to 45 days in IPL 2010. The opening ceremony of the IPL 2011 is scheduled to take place on 7th April in Chennai.

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Kochi IPL team doesn't want Ganguly!

Sorry, Sourav Ganguly for making you little nervous today!! IPL Kochi team hasn't showed up any signal to take Ganguly as team member yet. This is a very sad news for all Kolkata cricket fans who loves dada(Ganguly).

Apart from Kapil Dev the only captain to have led India to a World Cup final, Sourav Ganguly recently said that from the Kochi franchise he has not received any offer. As per reports by a few sections of the media, Ganguly also said that he don't know much of Kochi and not even heard anything regarding the offer. However, it is not clear until now that Kochi IPL team wants Ganguly or not.

Best IPL Ads for ever - Manoranjan Ka Asli Baap

Have you ever noticed the ads being played in the IPL? Here is provided the list of best IPL Ads for ever like Manoranjan Ka Asli Baap, Zoo Zoo ads, etc. with their videos from youtube. The ad agencies woke up to a new dimension after IPL was a hit (mid-way through the tournament) and then there was a hurry to make the most striking ads. Indian commercials provide big insight to an average Indian’s life keeping up with the humor and cultural sentiments and even there is a vast and more varied audience of Indian Advertisements than any other country.

Take a look on the best IPL Ads for ever

Zoozoos ads during the IPL

Since Zoozoos ads have been aired during the IPL for the first time, they are tremendously lovable and are really pretty funny. This ad persists to rule the chart by taking the key market share for ads. Regarding the ads being animated, there was a lot of talk but when the word extend that the ads used humans and were not animated; several people stood up and observed hence catapulting the ads to an all time high.

IPL 2011 Teams & Players Info

IPL season 4 is on a way so cricket fans are eagerly wating for information about upcoming team fixtures and team players. IPL cricket was started as a contract of renewal all team's after three year, so in this IPL season 4 all IPL franchises were bettled for auction on 8 and 9 January at the Royal Gardenia, Bangalore in which bidding of 350 players have participated. Each player had bidding price of $20,000 to $400,000 and any franchise could not allow bidding below it. Players were allowed to set their base price between these prices. There are 10 teams in the IPL and will play each 14 matches. There will be total 72 matches.

Teams and Players of IPL 4

Kings XI Punjab:

This franchise of IPL 4 is based in Mohali, India. The owners of this team are Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group), Mohit Burman (Dabur). Team has spent $6,945, 000 in auction.
Players and bidding price for each listed below:

• Adam Gilchrist: $900,000
• David Hussey: $1.4 million
• Dinesh Karthik: $900,000
• Shaun Marsh: $400,000
• Stuart Broad: $400,000
• Abhishek Nayar: $800,000
• Praveen Kumar: $800,000
• Ryan Harris: $325,000
• Piyush Chawla - Retained
• Nathan Rimmington: $20,000