Mahela Jayawardene appointed as Vice-Captain of Delhi Daredevils for IPL 5

Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardene is appointed as Vice-Captain of Delhi Daredevils team for fifth season of Indian Premier League (IPL 5). He was appointed as Vice-Captain on 22nd February,2012. The team mentor of Delhi Daredevils, T.A.Sekar said that Jayawardene has an outstanding track record and represents great respect from his team mates.

Virendra Sehwag welcomed Mahela's selection as vic-captain of Delhi Daredevils. Delhi Daredevils bid for Mahela Jayawardene at the IPL 2012 player auction held on 4th February,2012.

Under Jayawardene, Sri Lanka could reach the finals of World Cup 2007 held in the West Indies.

Buy Indian Premier League 2012 tickets online

The schedule of Indian Premier League 2012 ( IPL 2012) was recently announced by BCCI and the tournaments will be starting from 4th April, 2012 and will conclude on 27th May,2012. The excitement around IPL has not died during the past 4 years of IPL seasons. The IPL 2012 would be much bigger and with much more intensity and passion. Indian people always enjoyed cricket and that is the reason IPL 2012 is going to be another excitement for Indians. The stadiums will always be jam packed with crowds and hardly there was any cricket match which failed to attract audience.

Any one can book the IPL 2012 tickets either online or via booking counters.
The official website of IPL 2012 also hosts the ticket sales in the initial phase.
Various websites like ticketgenie.com, ticketpro.in, kyazoonga.com etc. will also be selling tickets. Besides, one can also purchase IPL tickets from the official websites of the respective franchise. You can specify the number of tickets and the date while booking. But make sure to have a hard copy of the confirmation mail. The IPL governing council has made a decision of decreasing the ticket prices for the upcoming version of IPL. This comes as good news for all the fans. The tickets would be priced between Rs. 200 for the general stands, to Rs. 2500 for the hospitality section.

Teams of IPL 2012

The IPL 2012 tournaments are going to start very shortly from 4th April,2012 and will continue till 27th May,2012. So the cricket fever is once again emerging in India with the commencement of IPL 5 from 4th April,2012. The inaugural match on 4th April,2012 will be played at Chennai. We all know that the Indian Premier League is the most awaited event in the country. In total there are 9 teams participating in IPL 2012 trophy. The following teams are going to participate in IPL 2012.

• Pune Warriors
• Deccan Chargers
• Mumbai Indians
• Kings XI Punjab
• Delhi Dare Devils
• Kolkata Knight Riders
• Bangalore Royal Challengers
• Chennai Super kings
• Rajasthan Royals

It was decided that the team from Kochi ( Kochi Tuskers) will not be participating in the IPL 2012 but the players from this team will get auctioned fro the matches in IPL 2012.

Totally 76 matches will be played by the teams in IPL 2012. The opening ceremony will be held on 3rd April,2012 in Chennai. The first match is between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at Chennai on 4th April,2012 at Chidambaram stadium at 20: 00 hrs.

About Indian Premier League

IPL or Indian Premier League is a professional league for conducting cricket competitions in India. The IPL was initiated by BCCI and supervised by Rajeev Shukla, Vice president of BCCI who is the Chairman and Commissioner of the league.
There are 9 teams at present consisting of players from all over the world.

IPL became the first sporting event ever broadcasted live on YouTube in 2010. The brand value of IPL was estimated to be around 3.67 billion dollars during the fourth season. It is estimated that the average salary of a IPL player over one year would be 3.85 million dollars.

The first ( inaigural ) season of IPL started on 18th April, 2008 and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled. The final match was played in DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Every team played each other both at home and away in a round robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final.. Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings in the finals and emerged as the inaugural IPL Champions.

The second season coincided with General Elections in India in 2009. Taking into consideration of security of players, the venue was shifted to South Africa. The format of the tournament was same as the first season. Deccan Chargers of Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers of Bangalore and emerged as winners in the finals.

The third season of IPL opened in January,2010 with the auction for players. 66 players were on offer but only 11 players were sold. Four teams qualified for the semi-finals. The first semi final was won by Mumbai Indians who defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by 35 runs. Chennai Super Kings defeated Hyderabad Deccan Chargers in second semi finals. The final was played between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings emerged as the winner in the final.

Two new teams from Pune and Kochi were added during the fourth season to the IPL. This was announced on 21st March,2010. But the bid around Kochi franchisee turned controversial and resulted in resignation of Minister, Shashi Tharoor from Central Government. Later on Lalit Modi was also removed as Chairman of BCCI. Finally on 5th December,2010 it was confirmed that Kochi will participate in fourth season of IPL. With the addition of Pune and Kochi teams, the number of franchisees increased from 8 to 10. So BCCI considered extending the format of the tournament similar to earlier seasons but this would increase the number of matches from 60 to 94. So the round-robin stage of tournament was replaced by a group stage with two groups of five, limiting the number of matches to 74. But this format was replaced by another one in which each team would play 5 other teams in a two-way round robin format and there would be 2 teams against whom they would play only at home and remaining 2 teams against which they would play only away matches.Thus each team plays 14 matches. Top four teams would qualify for the semi-finals. In October 2010, the Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab had their franchises terminated for breaching ownership rules. The new Kochi franchise was also issued a warning to resolve all their ownership disputes.[13] Two months later both teams were finally allowed to take part in the 2011 edition after a court ruling.

Chennai Super Kings won their second consecutive IPL title after defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs in the fourth season of IPL. CSK had beaten RCB in the playoffs too while RCB defeated Mumbai Indians to reach the final. This is the first time a franchise has won two IPL titles, had four consecutive semi-final visits, come to the finals three times, and successfully defended their title. The top four teams namely CSK, RCB, KKR and MI have also qualified for the Champions League.

The fifth season tournaments of IPL 2012 would be starting from 4th April, 2012 and end on 27th May,2012. 76 matches will be played during the IPL 2012.