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News is a matter of perception, which is very-local-in-nature. One example would be yesterday’s IPL match, while Indian newspaper highlighted the contribution of old gun like Dravid and Kumble in RCB’s victory, this is what English media has to say about it

1. Rajasthan hasn't hit a single boundary in the first 7 overs, against Royal challenger, first by any team.
2. RR scored 58, which is the second-lowest score in Twenty20 cricket, and the lowest in the IPL, score included only 1 four and two sixes.
3. After Amit Mishra and L. Balaji, Anil Kumble became the third Indian to take 5 wickets in IPL, other two bowler have anyway also taken hattrick. Best figure is by Sohail Tanvir (6 for 14) for RR v CSK
4. Anil Kumble's 5-wicket has another record, it is so far the most economical (1.57) 3.1 1 5 5 1.57
5. Worst Strike rate, and the credit goes to Dada, who made 1 run of 12 balls, SR of 8.33, against DC on 19-april.
6. Lowest score in the first 10 over is 31 for 3, by karbo na. Larbo na. Jeetbo na DC on 19-april.
7. Moises Henriques of KKR is a Portugal-born, thus the only one to be from that country in the IPL ( don't know about the world cricket).
8. Most economical spell ( complete 4 over) is by Edward against KKR, 4.0 1 6 1.50, second best is from Anil kumble, 1.57.


will keep on updating as the tournament progress..

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Ultratech has been supporting UP's Ranji Team, now they will be the lead aponsor of RR. Rajasthan Royals other sponsors for this season are : Kingfisher, Boost and Puma.

Another update is the appointment of 'TCS as technology partner'.

South Africa's Nicholls Steyn and Associates, hired by the Indian Premier League (IPL) to provide security solutions for the event, approached a Jalandhar-based company, Laggar Industry Limited (LIL), for supplying 16 bullet-proof buses and 64 bullet-proof SUVs for the players and officials.


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HBO has christened its new offering as Hollywood Premier League (HPL) to ride on the buzz that the cash-rich IPL tourney has generated nationwide. The draw will include the best box office performers every night after the 9 pm movie, starting 1 April.

BigAdda, a social networking site owned by Reliance Big Entertainment, has signed a marketing tie-up with GMR’s Delhi Daredevils team for the coming IPL cricket season.

The team will have its lead players like Virendar Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir blogging exclusively here during all 40-days of the IPL season.

Rajasthan Royals and consumer products maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare India Ltd are in process to develop an energy drink for the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). GSK's malt-based drink Boost was one of the brand partners of the RR, also they are the leading makers of health drink products such as Horlicks, Viva, Maltova and Boost

PepsiCo has scored a double whammy for the upcoming IPL season after bagging the sponsorship deal for Mumbai Indians and securing the status of official hydration partner of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for its 7UP brand.

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Royalty and team spirit is the core values of the modified logo, which has been designed to evoke pride and grandeur. It also retains the colours of the earlier logo - blue and gold.

Now we can hope that our young B-Scholl grad will actively participate in the class of IPL. The trivia part is that it was one of such course at Duke University from where ‘the most influential man' in present day cricket got the idea of ‘starting IPL”. So we may see few more sporting leagues, apart from the present ones - PHL, ileague and the recent Indian tennis league (ITL), resulting out from these courses...... well more is less…..
Link:

Indian Premier League: http://www.indianpremierleague.com

Bangalore Royal Challengers: http://www.royalchallengers.com
Chennai Super Kings: http://www.chennaisuperkings.com
Delhi Dare Devils: http://www.delhidaredevils.com
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers: http://www.deccanchargers.com
Jaipur Rajasthan Royals: http://www.rajasthanroyals.com
Kolkata Knight Riders: http://www.kolkataknightriders.com
Mohali Kings XI Punjab: http://www.kingsxipunjab.com
Mumbai Indians: http://www.themumbaiindians.com

1. Who bowled first maiden over in IPL?
2. Who is the first bowler to bowl a wicket maiden over ?
3. Who is the first Indian bowler to bowl a maiden over ?
4. Who is “Doni’s darling” last over bowler in 20-20?
5. Who is the first batsman to hit a six on the " free hit " ball?
6. Who is the first bowler to take a wicket on the very first ball of the match?
7. Who is the first bowler to take five wicket in the match?
8. Symonds was hit for 30 in an over by Virender Sehwag, and it was his last over in which Shane Warne hits two sixes, lastly he was the most expensive bowler for Deccan in the match against KKR.
9. Who is the first bowler to bowl back to back no-ball?
10. Who is the first Indian bowler to bowl back to back no-ball?
11. Who is the first player to win back to back Man of the Match Award? Saurav DADA
12. Who is the first player to win three Man of the Match Awards? Shane Watson
13. Who is the first bowler to get a hatrick ? L. Balaji followed by Amit Mishra.
14. Kings XI Punjab's bowler Irfan Pathan is the second bowler after Delhi Daredevil's Glenn McGrath to bowl two maiden overs in a match.
15. First three batsman who have scored two ducks are: Dravid, Gibbs and Sehwag, amazing but true...
16. Dhawal Kulkarni bowled three wide bowls in a row in his last over against Chennai Super King on 14 May, 2008, thus became first ball to have such a dubious record.
17. Abdur Razzak, the Bangladesh left-arm spinner. In his first game in the IPL gave 10 runs on his first two bowls in the match against RR. May 17, 2008. Infact the first ball was a no-ball , so 11 runs off one ball!

16,830 runs were scored by the eight teams.

622 sixes were hit in the entire tournament.

609 wickets fell.410 catches were taken with Suresh raina taking the maximum of 10.

6 centuries were scored.

April 29 BIG Music has announced its partnership with the IPL Chennai Super Kings as the exclusive entertainment partners. BIG Music will launch a music album in Tamil and Hindi that will comprise the official theme song and victory anthem for the Dhoni-lead IPL Chennai Super Kings.

April 23, 2008: Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders have signed on Zapak Digital Entertainment, a Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) venture, to develop online games for them.

Knight Riders: Nokia, Tag Heuer watches and HDIL
Mumbai Indians: Mastercard which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in India. Adidas is apparel sponsors.
Deccan Chargers: Jaypee Group & Nike will be handling uniforms.
Delhi Daredevils: Hero Honda, Religare & Adidas will be handling uniforms. Radio Mirchi will be their radio partner.
Kings XI Punjab: Spice, Coca-Cola & 9x , also Provogue will be handling uniforms.
Rajasthan royal: Bajaj Allianz
Chennai Super Kings: Aircel Cellular and Reebok will be the title and apparel sponsors. Also they have chosen Radio One, Chennai as its radio partner.

Rajasthan Royals : "HALLA BOL" by Ila Arun, song is written by Piyush Pandey.
Kolkata Knight Riders : Music by Vishal-Shekhar and Bappi Lahiri and song is "Korbo Lorbo Jitbo Re"
Kings XI Punjab : Sajid-Wajid and Bhangra King Daler Mehndi.
Mumbai Indians: penned by well-known lyricist Javed Akhtar with music scored by Anu Malik--'Rock the World'. Also Piyush Pandey has penned the lyrics of their campaign song and Tapas Relia has composed the music for the same.
Chennai Super Kings: penned by Vairamuthu, composed by G V Prakash Kumar.
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Link to download the Songs: http://www.aioforum.com/cricket/35896-ipl_teams_theme_songs.html#69596

IPL Promo Song Link

Rajasthan Royals : Link

Mumbai Indians theme video song: http://www.midload.com/en/file/28918/Duniya-Hila-Denge-music-video-wmv.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBREg7QWgKo

Kolkata Knight Riders [Download of the music video]

Chennai Super Kings: Official Song 1- Adi Adi Nethi Adi - Download link location

Bangalore Royal Challengers: Link

Kings XI Punjab : DHOOM PUNJABI Link

Deccan Chargers Team Anthem

Delhi Daredevils: Akshay Kumar.
Chennai Super Kings: K. Srikkanth .
Chennai Super Kings: Tamil actors Vijay and Nayanathara.
Mumbai Indians: Hrithik Roshan & Team Tasan
'Royal Challengers': Katrina Kaif

ICL Kolkata Tigers: Mithun Chakraborty

Which is the only company to have commercial interest in both ICL as well as IPL?

Dabur..
Industrialist Mohit Burman, Dabur India Ltd, is one of the stake holders in IPL Kings XI Punjab. Then Dabur is also the sponsor of Mumbai and Dabur Glucose felicitate players with the titles of ‘Dabur Glucose Most Energetic Player".