Car maker Hyundai has become one of the six associate sponsors of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) by buying air time rights from the official broadcaster Sony Set Max.
“Hyundai has bought air time rights for this season of IPL, which will have 59 matches beginning April 18,” HMIL Senior Vice-President Sales and Marketing Arvind Saxena said.

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In yet another news coming from the Chennai Super Kings team, the former fast bowler who was out from international cricket due to an injury, L Balaji was included in the team
“I’m happy with the progress, but it’s an ongoing process,” Balaji told the Hindu. “I still need to play more competitive cricket. I’m taking it step by step.” He last played an international in August 2005 against Sri Lanka in Dambulla. Balaji said he was happy to have been ….

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In one of the latest news from the Indian Premier League arena, Dr. Vijay Mallaya’s Kingfisher bagged the rights to sponsor all the third umpire decisions and has become an official umpire partner for all the 59 matches to be  player.Kingfisher bagged these rights by paying Rs 106 crore.
“Kingfisher Airlines has had a long association with a variety of sports at both the domestic and international levels including Tennis, Formula 1, Polo and now cricket. Their decision bears testimony to ….

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Icon player concept is introduced in the Indian Premier League.Explaining this, an icon player is a player who can only play for his home city in the competition.These icon players don’t have to go through bidding.These icon players have an advantage that they are guaranteed to get paid at least 15% more than the next top earner in their team.
List of icon players * Sachin Tendulkar for Mumbai Indians
* Rahul Dravid for Bangalore Royal Challengers
* Sourav Ganguly ….

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Following were the words by the highy paid superstar Shahrukh Khan when he was asked about the sponsors of Indian Premier League
 “Belmont, Nokia, HDIL and Tag Heur are already with me. To be very honest, I think we are the only team that needs sponsors. Reliance, Kingfisher and GMR have lots of money. They are public limited companies. We are the only private limited company trying to make a foray into this. It’s not that sponsors will come on board ….

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Check out the video below,it contains the some information about IPL Mohali team

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“I think we got 80 to 90 per cent of what we wanted. I am very happy with it. I personally didn’t enjoy the auction, I am very odd with these kind of things. It was fun to go there but was a little embarrassing to sit and raise hands and all, so I didn’t do it.”
Said by Shahrukh Khan alias King Khan on the occasion of bidding

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Though Mahinder Singh Dhoni was the highest paid cricketer in Indian Premier League but Australian Player Andrew Symonds was also not far away. He was auctioned for Rs 5.4 crore as against M.S.Dhoni ( Rs 6 crore).
The other foreign players who were auctioned at a very high price are :-

Name Of Player
IPL FEE (RS cr)
Franchise

ANDREW SYMONDS
5.4
HYDRABAD

SANATH JAYASURYA
3.9
MUMBAI

JACQUES KALUS
3.6
BANGALORE

BRET LEE
3.6
MOHALI

CHRIS GAYLE
3.2
KOLKATA

KUMAR SANGAKKARA
2.8
MOHALI

BRENDON MCCULLUM
2.8
KOLKATA

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Ganguly says:
“We have a good bowling attack for Twenty20. Shoaib Akhtar is one of cricket’s leading pace bowlers and Ishant has just come back from Australia where he proved his worth. Ajit Agarkar is another with ability to bowl fast”

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